First Connect Insurance

cloud security engineer

In short

This senior Cloud Security Engineer role at First Connect Insurance Services (a digital marketplace for independent insurance agents) focuses on securing AWS environments, embedding security into infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Kubernetes/ECS), deploying CNAPP/CSPM tooling, integrating security scanning into CI/CD pipelines, and helping the company adopt AI safely. It requires 6+ years of combined cloud/infrastructure and security engineering experience, strong AWS and Terraform/Kubernetes production experience, coding ability in Python/TypeScript/Go, and fluent English and Polish. The role is remote but requires being based in Poland with occasional CET afternoon availability.

About the Company
First Connect Insurance Services is a digital marketplace that gives independent insurance agents access to leading US carriers and a range of insurance policies. It provides consumer-grade software to help agents grow their businesses.
Responsibilities
•Secure and harden the AWS environment, including identity and access, network boundaries, encryption, and key management
•Build security into infrastructure definition and deployment, including Terraform modules and guardrails, Kubernetes and ECS workloads, container images, secrets management, and policy-as-code
•Help select, deploy, and fine-tune cloud security platforms, including CNAPP/CSPM, workload protection, logging, and detection tools
•Ensure telemetry has appropriate sources, coverage, and alerts, and support investigations
•Embed SAST, SCA, secrets, IaC, and container scanning into delivery pipelines, reduce noise, and partner with developers on remediation
•Automate security work by turning findings into tickets, checks into gates, and evidence collection into an automated process
•Help the company adopt AI safely by reviewing tools and connectors, mapping data flows, and controlling prompt injection, data exposure, and over-permissioned integrations
•Work with R&D on security for AI capabilities shipped to agents, from threat modeling to controls and monitoring
•Review, advise on, and help set up fully automated AI code deployment and product development
•Act as the technical reference point for cloud security across R&D and DevOps, review designs, and provide guidance
Requirements
•6+ years across cloud/infrastructure engineering and information security, including substantial hands-on cloud security experience
•Production experience securing AWS environments, including IAM and organization-level controls, networking, encryption, and logging; able to explain security trade-offs
•Solid production experience with Terraform and Kubernetes and/or ECS
•Experience implementing security tooling from scratch, including selection, rollout, and tuning
•Comfortable with ownership and ambiguity
•Write code in Python, TypeScript/Node, Go, or similar; work with APIs and build solutions that run in CI/CD without supervision
•Influence teams through reasoning and working solutions, drive technical direction, and make decisions with Security and R&D leadership
•Communicate clearly in writing and speech with technical and non-technical stakeholders
•Professional English and Polish (both C1)
•Based in Poland and available for occasional afternoon meetings (CET) with colleagues in other time zones
Nice to Have
•Pipeline-based application security scanning, dependency and secrets hygiene, common web and API vulnerability classes, prioritization of vulnerabilities
•Daily use of modern AI tools
•Understanding of AI risks including prompt injection, data leakage, excessive agency, and third-party AI data flows
Conditions
•Location: Poland
•Remote work and flexible working hours
•Non-service days
•Private medical care, including dental care, physiotherapy, and psychological support, with full coverage for the entire family
•Group life insurance
•MultiSport, 75% covered via the cafeteria platform
•English language learning budget
•Cafeteria platform with a monthly budget
•Glasses reimbursement every 3 years
•Team-building events, including an annual Offsite and Christmas Parties, plus a workation week

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