Hire dedicated cloud-security engineer — Steve drafts JD, Peter champions, dovetail with Nathan STIG/FIPS gap

Situation

In Steve 1:1 5/21, TJ flagged CIQ is doing the bare minimum on infrastructure security across 4-5 clouds. Peter asked Steve to have TJ (or Steve) draft a quickie JD describing what the role does and is responsible for — explicitly NOT urgent, but needed as a champion artifact so Peter can take it to Bjorn/Greg with a concrete ask. Steve flagged that the same hire could dovetail with Nathans STIG/FIPS expertise need on the technical side; Peter agreed ("Awesome"). QBR 5/22 made it official as a Steve-owned area requiring formal assessment and potentially a new headcount.

Reasoning

Security across 4-5 clouds with no dedicated owner is structural debt that compounds. Three contemporaneous signals: (1) Yesh disclosure 5/21 — first sign external researchers are looking, (2) Google/Rakuten security questionnaires consuming substantial Steve time, (3) NPM and GitHub supply-chain attacks TJ and CeeLo are proactively hardening against. One smart hire collapses two needs (cloud posture + STIG/FIPS) into one cost — Steve called it a couple of niches that may not quite be full-time, full-time, but enough surface area. JD-first-champion-second is Peter standard hiring template — the JD is the artifact that converts a concern into an approved rec.

Additional Context

Existing todo Champion the cloud security engineer role with Bjorn/Greg once Steve sends JD confirms this direction has been articulated before; the 5/21 conversation is the most concrete commitment yet to a specific JD ask. The Yesh-as-inaugural-bug-bounty decision is upstream — the moment Peter committed to outside researcher rewards, the inside-the-house security capability gap got sharper.

Observed Evidence

Direct quotes from Steve 1:1 + QBR action item. Existing todo confirms pre-existing direction.

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