Lead Technical Risk Engineer

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

Experience Level

Senior Level