About the job
Join 1X as a Senior Cloud Security Architect!
Located in San Carlos, CA (on-site)
About Us
At 1X, we are at the forefront of innovation, creating humanoid robots that collaborate with humans to address labor shortages and foster a future of abundance.
Your Impact
As a Senior Cloud Security Architect, you will be pivotal in establishing a secure cloud infrastructure across AWS, Google Cloud, Cloudflare, and our engineering platforms. Your expertise will guide the design of scalable architectures, enforce pragmatic guardrails, and foster collaboration with engineering teams to mitigate risks without hindering development. This hands-on role is dedicated to achieving measurable risk reduction through robust architecture and the strategic application of cloud security tools, including Wiz. Your contributions will ensure our cloud environments are resilient, auditable, and designed for future growth.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and refine cloud security architecture for AWS, Google Cloud, and Cloudflare
- Design secure foundations that incorporate account structures, network segmentation, identity integration, secrets management, encryption, and logging
- Implement effective guardrails through policies, tooling, and CI/CD controls to enhance security without sacrificing engineering speed
- Manage cloud posture and remediation with Wiz, focusing on prioritization, verification, and tangible risk reduction
- Collaborate with Engineering and Platform teams to secure repositories and pipelines across GitLab and GitHub
- Enhance CI/CD security through branch protections, secrets scanning, least privilege tokens, and artifact integrity controls
- Establish operational controls for production access, privileged actions, and break-glass workflows
- Continuously monitor for drift, enforce ownership, and standardize reusable security patterns across environments

