Lead Technical Risk Engineer

We are seeking a Risk Engineer with strong technical acumen to design prioritize and enable risk-reducing technical solutions across complex cloud and enterprise environments. This role emphasizes solution engineering over process engineeringusing risk frameworks policies and controls as inputs to architect practical automatable and scalable technical safeguards.

The ideal candidate thinks like an engineer first and a risk professional second: someone who understands how systems actually fail how controls can be enforced through code and architecture and how risk intent is translated into resilient technical designs.

Key Responsibilities

• Engineer technical risk solutions that reduce operational cyber and resilience risk through architecture automation and control design.
• Translate risk requirements policies and standards into implementable technical patterns guardrails and reference architectures.
• Prioritize and influence solution design decisions based on risk impact blast radius and recovery dependencies.
• Partner with platform cloud security and SRE teams to embed risk controls directly into infrastructure and pipelines.
• Evaluate control effectiveness using technical signals and evidence not just procedural compliance.
• Support initiatives such as secure cloud architectures isolated recovery environments identity and access hardening and infrastructure resilience.
• Provide technical guidance on risk tradeoffs recovery sequencing and dependency-aware system design.

• Contribute to lightweight process definition where neededbut always in service of enabling better technical outcomes.

  Preferred Technical Skills

• Automation & API Development: Proficiency in Python or Java and Ansible for scripting with hands-on experience in API development (RESTful)
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
• Data & Analytics: Expertise in GCP BigQuery Power BI (or similar) for visualizing risk posture and evidence.
• Cloud Platforms: Google Cloud Platform (Cloud Run GCS Pub Sub IAM BigQuery)
• Supporting Knowledge (nice to have):
  • CI/CD pipelines and policy-as-code
  • Backup recovery and resilience architectures
  • SRE / Observability
  • Security Domain expertise
  • Familiarity with Agentic AI frameworks.

• 7 years in engineering security engineering platform engineering SRE or technical risk roles
• Proven ability to design and influence technical solutions across teams
• Strong understanding of how risk manifests in distributed systems cloud platforms and automation
• Comfortable operating between engineering teams and risk stakeholders
• Ability to explain complex technical risk concepts to non-technical audiences without losing fidelity