Cloud Security Engineer

About First Connect First Connect Insurance Services is a digital marketplace providing independent insurance agents access to top US carriers and the optionality necessary to grow their businesses. Agents can work with 150+ carriers, selling various insurance policies, including home, auto, small business, and more. We're on a mission to overhaul the technology agents have access to, putting consumer-grade software at their fingertips. We've got thousands of active agents with hundreds joining monthly, and we plan to accelerate our growth. Role Overview First Connect is fully cloud-native — no offices, no data centers, everything we run lives in the cloud and ships through our pipelines. That makes cloud and infrastructure security the center of gravity for our whole security program , and it's the part of the program we are building right now. This is a hands-on engineering role and most of what you own will be implemented, configured and tuned from scratch rather than inherited: cloud security posture and workload protection, infrastructure and IaC guardrails, automation that removes manual security work, and the emerging practice around how we secure both our internal use of AI and the AI capabilities in our product and development. You'll also help us keep our security engineering aligned with our SOC 2 Type II and financial-services regulatory obligations. You'll join our team as our first dedicated Cloud Security Engineer, reporting directly to our Information Security Manager, and working side by side with our DevOps and R&D teams in Poland, Israel and the US. What You'll Do: Secure and harden our cloud estate: Own the security posture of our AWS environment (identity and access, network boundaries, encryption and key management). Build security into how our infrastructure is defined and deployed: Terraform modules and guardrails, Kubernetes and ECS workloads, container images, secrets management and policy-as-code. Stand up security tooling and detection: Help select, deploy and fine-tune cloud security platforms (CNAPP/CSPM, workload protection, logging and detection), mostly starting from a blank slate. Make sure our telemetry has the right sources, coverage and alerts, and support investigations when something looks wrong. Embed and automate security in delivery: Build SAST, SCA, secrets, IaC and container scanning into our pipelines, cut the noise, and partner with developers on fixing what matters. Treat manual security effort as a bug: findings become tickets, checks become gates, and evidence collects itself. Secure AI across the company and our product: 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 the AI capabilities we ship to agents, from threat modeling to controls and monitoring. Support the AI code factory: Review, advise on and help set up fully automated AI…