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Senior Security Engineer

Guidewire · United States - Remote · Remote

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About Guidewire

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About the role

Lead complex infrastructure security initiatives involving multiple teams, systems, and dependencies, with a primary focus on AWS cloud environments and CI/CD pipelines. Design, implement, and operate security controls across AWS and applicable cloud platforms.

What they're looking for

  • Typically 5+ years of experience in security engineering, cloud security, infrastructure security, DevSecOps, or equivalent practical experience
  • Hands-on experience designing and operating secure AWS environments is required. Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is strongly preferred, experience with other cloud platforms is a plus
  • Hands-on experience authoring, reviewing, testing, and troubleshooting infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or comparable technologies to deploy and manage security controls
  • Hands-on experience building, securing, testing, and operating CI/CD pipelines, preferably using GitHub Actions or comparable platforms, including pipeline automation, secrets management, artifact handling, and runner security
  • Hands-on scripting or programming experience, using Python, Go, or another appropriate language, to automate security tasks, integrate controls, and troubleshoot security tooling
  • Practical knowledge of cloud and infrastructure networking, including segmentation, routing, DNS, firewalls, ingress and egress controls, private connectivity, and network telemetry
More about this role

Guidewire is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to design, build, operate, and improve secure infrastructure and cloud security capabilities across an AWS-first, multi-cloud environment.

The core focus of this role is AWS cloud infrastructure and CI/CD supply chain security, while also partnering across teams to address emerging security frontiers—including securing AI systems (LLMs, AI agents, and Model Context Protocol integrations) and leveraging modern AI models and technologies to enhance and automate our security capabilities.

This role partners with functions across infrastructure and platform engineering, site reliability engineering and operations, product and application engineering, data and analytics, security, and other technology and business functions. The engineer translates security risks into scalable controls, automation, secure-by-default patterns, standards, and operating processes.

The role is expected to independently own complex work, solve ambiguous security problems, influence stakeholders, and mentor other engineers.

Lead complex infrastructure security initiatives involving multiple teams, systems, and dependencies, with a primary focus on AWS cloud...

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