HELP PROTECT THE SYSTEMS THAT POWER INNOVATION AND MANUFACTURING EXCELLENCE.

POLYWOOD® is looking for a Senior Infrastructure Security Engineer who thrives in high-ownership environments and is passionate about securing modern infrastructure. This role blends security strategy, hands-on engineering, and AI safeguarding to protect critical systems while enabling operational continuity in a manufacturing environment.

If you take full accountability for outcomes, think proactively about emerging threats, and enjoy building security programs that make a measurable impact, this opportunity is for you.

What You’ll Do:

• Develop and own POLYWOOD’s infrastructure security strategy and long-term roadmap - not just maintain what exists, but build what’s needed.
• Design and implement secure cloud-native architectures across AWS and Azure, including multi-account IAM, network segmentation, endpoint protection, and threat detection.
• Lead AI safeguarding initiatives - securing LLM endpoints, RAG pipelines, and agentic systems against prompt injection, data poisoning, adversarial inputs, and inference-layer threats.
• Build and manage enterprise security controls across identity, endpoint, network, and cloud security posture.
• Proactively hunt for threats before they trigger alerts. Build detection capabilities that find risks early.
• Own and lead incident response end-to-end: detection, containment, root cause analysis, and post-incident hardening.
• Partner cross-functionally with IT, engineering, and operations to embed security into processes, architecture, and culture.
• Develop and enforce security policies, standards, and compliance frameworks.
• Continuously evaluate and improve security posture, controls, and operational resilience.
• Provide clear security guidance and reporting to leadership — translating complex risk into decisions the business can act on.

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What You Bring:

• 7–10+ years of experience in security engineering with demonstrated ownership of security programs (vs participation in programs someone else built). 
• Production-grade experience securing AI/ML systems: LLM endpoints, RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, or model integrity controls. Research and general awareness are not substitutes for having done the work in a live environment.
• Cloud security architecture depth across AWS and/or Azure: multi-account IAM design, Service Control Policies, GuardDuty, Security Hub, CloudTrail, and cloud-native detection. Console familiarity is not architecture.
• Technical fundamentals you can discuss cold, in conversation, without notes: TLS handshake mechanics, SPF/DKIM/DMARC mechanisms, CORS exploitation, SQL injection mechanics, and forensics-first incident response.
• Incident response leadership experience end-to-end: detection through resolution through post-mortem, wit documented improvements that prevented recurrence.

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Preferred Skills:

• The ability to operate independently from day one. This role has no ramp-up runway for fundamentals. You will assess the environment, identify gaps, and start building - without waiting to be directed.
• Strong communication skills: you will brief senior leadership, push back on engineering decisions, and explain security risk to people who do not speak security.
• Experience in manufacturing, industrial, or operational technology (OT) environments - specifically understanding that availability beats confidentiality on a plant floor, knowing why active scanning can disrupt
• OT equipment, and familiarity with the Purdue model or ISA/IEC 62443 for ICS segmentation.
• Familiarity with risk intelligence platforms and advanced threat modeling techniques applied to real environments.
• CISSP, CISM, GPEN, GICSP, or equivalent certifications. 

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Why You’ll Love Working With Us:

• High Impact Role: Directly shape the security posture of a growing, technology-driven manufacturer. 
• Ownership Culture: Work in an environment that values Extreme Ownership and accountability.
• Strategic Influence: Lead AI safeguarding and infrastructure security strategy at the enterprise level.
• Continuous Growth: Stay ahead of emerging threats and technologies while driving meaningful improvements.
• Purpose Driven Work: Protect the systems that power sustainable manufacturing and innovation.

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About Us 

At POLYWOOD®, we design and build outdoor furniture that brings people together and stands the test of time.  We do this using sustainable materials like our genuine POLYWOOD® lumber made from recycled plastics.  But the strength of our products starts with the strength of our people. 

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The Sr. Infrastructure SecOps Engineer plays a critical role in protecting the systems that support our manufacturing operations, supply chain, and innovation initiatives. This role ensures that security is not a barrier to progress but a foundation for operational excellence.

If this sounds like the kind of impact you want to make, we’d love to meet you! Apply today!

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POLYWOOD is an equal opportunity employer. POLYWOOD evaluates qualified applicants without regard to characteristics protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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