Senior Cloud Security Engineer - AI Resilience & Security Enhancements (Contract)

Requirements

• Extensive experience designing and implementing cloud security solutions within large-scale cloud-native environments.
• Strong hands-on experience securing public cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
• Expertise in cloud security architecture, identity and access management, workload protection, and infrastructure security.
• Experience securing CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices.
• Strong understanding of software supply chain security, including dependency management, artifact signing, provenance, and vulnerability management.
• Experience implementing least-privilege access models and RBAC.
• Knowledge of security monitoring, risk assessment, and security governance.
• Experience working within highly regulated or business-critical production environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence engineering teams.
• Strong technical documentation and design skills.

Nice to Haves

• Experience implementing security controls for AI or machine learning platforms.
• Knowledge of cryptographic controls and key management.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and policy-as-code tooling.
• Familiarity with payment platforms or financial services environments.
• Understanding of operational resilience frameworks and regulatory requirements affecting critical financial infrastructure.
• Relevant cloud or security certifications (e.g., AWS Security Specialty, CISSP, CCSP or similar).

What You'll Be Doing

• Assess the current cloud security posture and identify risks, control gaps, and opportunities for improvement.
• Design and implement scalable cloud security controls to enhance resilience and security.
• Enhance perimeter security controls and CI/CD pipeline security.
• Strengthen production access security and software supply chain security.
• Contribute to secure adoption of AI-enabled engineering capabilities and provide technical leadership on cloud security architecture.
• Produce high-quality technical documentation and collaborate with engineering, platform, and security teams.

Perks and Benefits

• Contract-based work at Form3.
• Opportunity to deliver strategic security enhancements across a cloud-native payments platform.
• Collaborate with Platform Engineering and Security teams to implement security improvements.
• Work on critical payment infrastructure alignment with regulatory expectations.
• Structured change management practices to maintain service availability.