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Sphere · 3 hours ago

Cloud Security Engineer / Architect

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid, Senior Level

4+ years exp

Sphere is a Series B fintech company focused on rebuilding credit scoring with alternative data. They are seeking a Cloud Security Engineer / Architect to design and enforce secure architecture for their AWS environment, ensuring the security of sensitive financial information and compliance with regulations.

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Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Design and enforce secure architecture for their multi-account AWS environment, focusing on the ML pipeline (SageMaker, EKS clusters, feature stores)

Implement granular, just-in-time access controls for data science teams working with regulated data

Build the security layer for their CI/CD and GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, Terraform). Shift security left

Automate compliance checks (SOC 2, GDPR) for infrastructure-as-code and containerized workloads

Secure network architecture (VPC, security groups, NACLs) for AI workloads. Implement guardrails via AWS Control Tower or Terraform

Fine-grained IAM policies and service accounts for Kubernetes. Encryption in transit/at rest for model artifacts and training data

Security scanning for container images and ML model dependencies in CI. Secrets management for model serving

Detective controls for anomalous behavior in the ML pipeline (e.g., unusual model access, large data extraction)

Qualification

AWS securityKubernetes securityInfrastructure-as-codeCompliance requirementsScripting PythonScripting GoSecurity for ML platformsBig data stacks

Required

Experience with securing AWS environments for data-intensive or ML applications (4+ years)

Experience with Kubernetes security (pod security policies/admission controllers, network policies)

Fluency in infrastructure-as-code (Terraform preferred) and scripting (Python, Go)

Ability to translate compliance requirements (SOC 2, GDPR) into technical controls

Preferred

Experience with security for ML platforms (SageMaker, MLflow, Kubeflow) or big data stacks (Spark, Kafka)

Company

Sphere

Drive your sustainable digital transformation with focus on innovation and scale

Founded in 2004

Chicago, Illinois, USA

201-500 employees

http://sphereinc.com

H1B Sponsorship

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Trends of Total Sponsorships

2021 (3)

2020 (1)

Funding

Current Stage

Growth Stage

Leadership Team

Leon Ginsburg

CEO/Founder

Alex Korenev

Community Engagement Partner

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