Security Infrastructure Engineer (Almaty)

Almaty, Kazakhstan. Posted 3 months ago

The role

This person will own security across cloud and ML infrastructure. The work includes tenant isolation, GPU cluster security, and model protection.

Evaluate, implement, and maintain cloud security tooling.
Own infrastructure and container vulnerability management across cloud environments and drive remediation.
Design and implement network segmentation to tighten internal security boundaries.
Build centralized security monitoring across cloud infrastructure.
Own access governance and credential management across cloud and internal tooling.
Partner with Engineering, DevOps, and IT to raise identity and access management standards.
Set the technical direction for infrastructure security.
Lead cross-functional projects turning standards into tooling and guardrails.

7+ years in infrastructure security or security engineering, including time at a high-growth startup.
Deep hands-on experience securing a major cloud provider and a container orchestrator, managed with infrastructure-as-code (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform).
Experience securing ML workloads — training or inference infrastructure, GPU clusters, or model-serving platforms.
Solid networking, operating systems, and cryptography fundamentals.
Strong grasp of container and infrastructure security practices and vulnerability management.
Comfortable working cross-functionally with DevOps, Engineering, and ML teams; able to independently find and close security gaps.
High agency.

Experience with sandboxing, container isolation, or secure execution environments for untrusted code.
Experience with CSPM rollouts.
Incident response and security monitoring experience.
Familiarity with SOC 2 or similar frameworks.

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