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 engineering-using 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 needed-but 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