Cloud Security Engineer is responsible for helping secure the cloud-native infrastructure, platforms, services, and deployment patterns that support the Paymentus SaaS platform. This role reports to the Manager of Security Engineering and works closely with Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Product, Compliance, Security Operations, and Application Security teams.This is a hands‑on technical role focused on securing Paymentus infrastructure across public cloud, Kubernetes, containers, serverless technologies, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, cloud identity, network controls, secrets management, logging, monitoring, and cloud‑native security tooling.The successful candidate must have deep practical knowledge of cloud security across AWS, GCP, and Azure, with strong experience securing modern SaaS platforms, web applications, RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems. The role requires the ability to assess cloud architecture, identify insecure patterns, build scalable security controls, automate cloud security checks,



and partner directly with engineering teams to remediate risk without unnecessarily slowing delivery.Education and ExperienceBachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Security, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.5+ years of experience in cloud security, infrastructure security, platform security, DevSecOps, security engineering, cloud engineering, site reliability engineering, or a closely related technical role.Hands‑on experience securing workloads in one or more major public cloud platforms, with solid preference for practical experience across AWS, GCP, and Azure.Strong understanding of cloud‑native architecture, SaaS platforms, microservices, distributed systems, RESTful APIs, authentication, authorization, encryption, logging, monitoring, and service‑to‑service communication.Deep knowledge of cloud identity and access management, including least privilege, role‑based access, service accounts, workload identity, cross‑

📌 Cloud Security Engineer (Richmond Hill)
🏢 Paymentus
📍 Richmond Hill