Cloud Security Engineer

Datavant is a rapidly growing health information technology company with a mission to connect the world’s health data to improve patient outcomes. Datavant works to reduce the friction of data sharing across the healthcare industry by building technology that protects the privacy of patients while supporting the linkage of patient health records across datasets.

By joining Datavant today, you’re stepping onto a highly collaborative, remote-first team that is passionate about creating transformative change in healthcare. We hire for three traits: we want people who are smart, nice, and who get things done. We invest in our people and believe in hiring for high-potential and humble individuals who can rapidly grow their responsibilities as the company scales. Datavant is a distributed, remote-first team, and we empower Datavanters to shape their working environment in a way that suits their needs. Read more about our culture and benefits here! 

You will:

• Have a deep understanding of AWS security. You’ll use this knowledge to help Datavant navigate all the traps of good AWS products vs. great AWS products and know when to be thoughtful on use.
• Have a point of view on secure, continuous development and represent it as Datavant continues to mature. This point of view will provide a model to shape the future of security both at Datavant and via contributions to the broader community.
• Provide expert level technical help on Kubernetes security. Understand the tools in this space that are both operations and security specific. You have implemented and/or used them in the past and have deep knowledge about them. 
• Work directly with senior security leadership to ensure maturity, depth, and coverage of security controls. You’ll be expected to interface with Security Engineering leadership daily. 
• Review components being built in our cloud infrastructure (via pull request reviews and contribution). During these reviews you’ll be mentally present and use your ability to evaluate risk such that you have a great impact on the delivery of secure code. This role is not merely a +1.
• Work directly with world class level DevOps peers to help build practical and usable security into the SDLC and AWS. 
• Own new projects for advancing security in our environment. Be the deep technical expert and collaborate with others on the teams to ensure project success. Your impact here cannot be understated, you are a core contributor and have deep influence to empower Datavant greatness.

What you will bring to the table: 

• You are humble.
• You can build in at least a single language (Python, Go) and have Infrastructure as Code depth (Terraform). It is expected that you have a “git native” skillset.
• You can articulate start to finish what a secure release cycle should look like in detail.
• You have opinions and options on most of the steps.
• You are a consummate collaborator - it’s inherent in your work behavior.
• You value time deeply and optimize for greatest impact.
• 3+ years of working in container space security, particularly in Kubernetes environments.
• 3+ years of working in at least 1 major public Cloud provider and a desire to learn a second.
• Broad scoped projects don’t scare you, they energize you. However, you like to get things done fast (and help others) with limited dependencies.

Bonus points if:

• You are often viewed as the “expert in the room” on continuous delivery and cloud security in your current role.
• You have experience with security in healthcare or other highly regulated space. Examples: HIPAA/HITRUST, SOC 2, PCI experience from an operational response standpoint.

We are committed to building a diverse team of Datavanters who are smart, nice, and get things done, where every Datavanter is empowered to bring their authentic self to their work. We are all responsible for stewarding a high-performance culture in which all Datavanters belong and thrive. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.

Our compensation philosophy is to be externally competitive, internally fair, and not win or lose on compensation. Salary ranges for this position are developed with the support of benchmarks (competitive San Francisco rates for US-based roles) and industry best practices. 

We’re building a high-growth, high-autonomy culture. We rely less on job titles and more on cultivating an environment where anyone can contribute, the best ideas win, and personal growth is driven by expanding impact. This means we default to simple job titles (e.g., Software Engineer) rather than complex ones (e.g., Senior Software Engineer). The range posted is for a given job title, which can include multiple levels. Individual rates for the same job title may differ based on  level, responsibilities, skills, and experience for a specific job. The estimated salary range for this role is $230,000 - $245,000.

At the end of this application, you will find a set of voluntary demographic questions. If you choose to respond, your responses will be anonymous and used to help us identify areas of improvement in our recruitment process. (We can only see aggregate responses, not individual responses. In fact, we aren’t even able to see if you’ve responded or not.) Responding is your choice and it will not be used in any way in our hiring process.