Cloud Security Engineer
Posted 12 Oct 2026
Advertised as “Senior Cloud Security Engineer”
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- Expected experience
- 5+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Remote
- Contract
- Full-time
No salary listed for this role.
About the Company
At Delta, we are re-imagining and re-building the financial system. Join our team to make a positive impact on the future of finance.
🎯 Mission Driven: Re-imagine and re-build the future of finance.
💡 Most innovative cryptocurrency derivatives exchange. With a daily traded volume of ~$0.5billion, and increasing. Delta is bigger than all the Indian crypto exchanges combined.
📈 Offer the widest range of derivative products and have been serving traders all over the globe since 2018 and growing fast.
💪🏻 The founding team is comprised of IIT and ISB graduates. Business co-founders have previously worked with Citibank, UBS and GIC; and our tech co-founder is a serial entrepreneur who previously co-founded TinyOwl and Housing.com.
💰 Funded by top crypto funds (Sino Global Capital, CoinFund, Gumi Cryptos) and crypto projects (Aave and Kyber Network).
About the role
You'll be the dedicated security engineer at a derivative exchange (~250 people, 50-100 person dev team). All infra is AWS. DevOps builds it; you make sure it's secure and can prove it. You'll be hands-on — reviewing Terraform PRs for security gaps, building automated drift detection, writing SIEM rules, and owning the credential lifecycle. When the CTO asks, "Are we secure?" you pull up a dashboard, not a slide deck. You own the security posture of the infrastructure from shaping how access and controls are modelled, to verifying they hold in practice.
What you'll do
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Verify that infra implementations match the security model — continuously, not quarterly.
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Build automated compliance checks and drift detection (AWS Config, Steampipe, custom tooling, whatever works)
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Review Terraform PRs for IAM, SCP, and network security gaps before they hit production.
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Own credential lifecycle: rotation, PAM, JIT access, session recording.
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Write and tune detection rules in OpenSearch SIEM.
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Build evidence dashboards that prove security posture to non-security leadership 7. Evaluate security tooling (build vs buy) and own the recommendation with documented tradeoffs.
Must-haves
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5+ years in infrastructure or security engineering, with at least 2 years focused on AWS security
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IAM beyond basic roles — you understand policy evaluation logic, permission boundaries, cross-account access patterns
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Have built automated security checks that run in production (any tooling)
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Can read and critically review Terraform for security posture
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Have operated PAM tooling or credential rotation in production (any tool)