DevOps & Cloud Security Manager

Job Overview

We are innovating logistics and have achieved this thanks to a team of visionary people, eager to grow and change the world. At Skydropx you will find a space to develop your career within a dynamic, ambitious and multicultural work environment.

Lead the cloud infrastructure and security strategy for the company in GCP and AWS environments, with an explicit focus on prevention, detection and response to attacks.

This role combines high-level technical leadership with direct operational responsibility: you will be the owner of the company's security posture, interlocutor with executive leadership and technical reference for engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities

Security:

• Define and execute cloud security strategy: zero trust, network segmentation, least privilege and defense-in-depth in GCP and AWS.
• Implement preventive and detective controls: WAF, DDoS mitigation, IDS/IPS, SIEM and vulnerability management (SAST, DAST, CVE tracking).
• Integrate security into the CI/CD pipeline (shift-left): secret scanning, image scanning and dependency analysis.
• Lead incident response, threat modeling and coordination of external red team / pentesting exercises.

Infrastructure and operations:

• Design and maintain cloud infrastructure in GCP (GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, IAM) and AWS (ECS/Fargate, EKS, RDS, SQS, VPC, IAM).
• Manage IaC (Terraform), CI/CD pipelines, observability (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog) and reliability (SLOs/SRE).
• Lead the DevOps/SRE/Security team, manage infrastructure budget and communicate technical decisions at the executive level.

Required Qualifications

Security — essential:

• Experience designing cloud security strategies: advanced IAM, hardening, zero trust, WAF, IDS/IPS and vulnerability management.
• Handling of SIEM, IR playbooks and operational threat intelligence.
• Knowledge of OWASP Top 10, CIS Benchmarks, NIST CSF and at least one of SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / LGPD.

Cloud and infrastructure — essential:

• +6 years in DevOps/SRE/Cloud, with at least 2 in technical leadership. English B2+.
• GCP and AWS in production. Kubernetes mid-senior. Terraform. Multi-language CI/CD. Bash/Python.

Desirable:

• Certifications GCP Security Engineer, AWS Security Specialty, CISSP or CISM.
• Experience with CSPM, Falco or DataDog. Portuguese/Spanish as an additional language.

About Skydropx

We offer:

• Mission at regional level: to make LATAM businesses worry less about their logistics.
• Location: Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, Panama, Peru.
• Salary: Competitive and negotiable according to experience, skills and results of the hiring process.
• Scheme: 100% remote.
• Schedule: Monday to Friday 8:00 to 17:00 CST (Mexico).
• With flexible hours when there are new releases.
• Growth and professional development.

We invite you to accept the challenge! To apply for the vacancy, apply through this medium and we will be delighted to achieve our goals together with you. If your profile matches the requirements of the vacancy, our recruitment team will be in contact with you.