Infrastructure Security Engineer, Public Sector at Scale AI
New York, NY
$198,400–$342,000
Jul 23, 2026
New York, NY
Jul 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A security-focused infrastructure engineering role on a public sector team, centered on hardening large multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP), managing and securing Kubernetes clusters, and reviewing infrastructure-as-code written in tools like Terraform. The position suits an experienced engineer comfortable with cloud security assessments, automation, and mentoring peers, and requires holding at minimum an active Top Secret clearance.
Senior level · Top Secret clearance · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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Why we read it this way (6)
The only hard gate explicitly stated in this posting is the active Top Secret clearance — all technical skills appear under an 'Ideally, you'd have' heading, making them preferred rather than required.
The role blends infrastructure security analysis (cloud security posture, audits, vulnerability assessment) with infrastructure engineering (IaC review, Kubernetes, automation), creating genuine ambiguity between 15-1212 Information Security Analysts and 15-1244 Network/Systems Admins. The security-analysis framing ('security assessments', 'security posture', 'SAST/DAST', certifications like CISSP/OSCP) tips the primary classification to 15-1212.
No work location or metro area is specified; the Public Sector focus and Top Secret clearance requirement suggest a US-based role, but remote status cannot be confirmed.
No compensation range is provided.
Security certifications (CISSP, CEH, OSCP) are explicitly called 'a plus' and are therefore not captured as skills.
Requires a Top Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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