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Staff Infrastructure & Security Engineer

Vouch · Chicago, IL (Hybrid) · Hybrid

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About Vouch

Vouch is the insurance broker that powers ambition. We’re a tech-enabled insurance advisory and brokerage purpose-built for growing companies in technology, life sciences, and professional services. Backed by Index, Y Combinator and 500 Global.

About the role

Vouch provides several benefits to help you bring your best self to work: (Please note these steps may vary slightly depending on the role)

What they're looking for

  • Deep cloud engineering experience, primarily in AWS: designing, building, and operating production infrastructure at scale
  • Strong in CI/CD and delivery automation (CircleCI, Nomad, or equivalent) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), with ownership of a real production system's reliability
  • Apply security pragmatically: isolation, least-privilege, RBAC, blast-radius containment
  • A formal background in information security or cybersecurity, including having led a SOC 2 (or similar) compliance audit
  • Has led at least one enterprise security-breach or data-leak incident response
  • Comfortable as a hands-on technical lead and DRI: work through architecture, standards, and code review, set technical direction, and raise the bar across a team
More about this role
  • Serve as the technical DRI for the Infra & Security group: own the architecture, set the standards, and make the technical calls across infrastructure, DevOps, and security engineering.
  • Own the cloud platform end-to-end: infrastructure reliability, CI/CD and delivery automation, and the infrastructure-as-code beneath them.
  • Drive a simpler, isolated architecture through shrinking the surface area we defend and maintain: Retire legacy and unused services, consolidate SaaS and vendors, and unwind standing external dependencies.
  • Own infra & security incident-response: a staffed rotation with no single point of failure, severity-matched response, actionable alerting, and runbooks.
  • Bring identity and access under a single source of truth: human, service, machine, and agent identity.
  • Build the Production-agent Infrastructure that lets autonomous agents run and self-verify safely in production.
  • Drive and maintain our security-compliance and supply-chain scanning programs.
  • Deep cloud engineering experience, primarily in AWS: designing, building, and operating production infrastructure at scale.
  • Strong in CI/CD and delivery automation (CircleCI, Nomad, or equivalent) and...

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