Cloud Security Engineer
Staffing Spot, Inc. · Irving, TX · 6 days ago
HybridInformation TechnologyContract
About the role
We are looking for a Cloud Security Engineer to design, implement, and maintain security controls across cloud environments.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement security controls across AWS, Azure, or GCP environments.
- Manage IAM, roles, policies, permissions, and least-privilege access.
- Secure cloud networks, including VPC/VNet, security groups, firewalls, and private endpoints.
- Monitor cloud environments for security threats, misconfigurations, and suspicious activities.
- Perform vulnerability assessments and support remediation of security issues.
- Implement encryption, key management, secrets management, and data protection controls.
- Configure and monitor cloud security services and SIEM solutions.
- Develop security standards, policies, and best practices for cloud infrastructure.
- Support incident response and investigation of cloud security events.
- Conduct security reviews of cloud architectures and applications.
- Work with DevOps teams to integrate security into CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines.
- Maintain security documentation and support compliance requirements.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in cloud security.
- Strong understanding of Cloud Security concepts.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Good knowledge of IAM, RBAC, MFA, SSO, and least-privilege access.
- Understanding of cloud networking and security controls.
- Experience with SIEM, logging, monitoring, and incident response.
- Knowledge of vulnerability management and security assessment tools.
- Understanding of encryption, certificates, secrets, and key management.
- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and DevSecOps is a plus.
- Strong knowledge of security principles, threats, and attack techniques.
- Good scripting skills in Python, PowerShell, or Bash are preferred.
Preferred Qualifications
- AWS Certified Security – Specialty
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate
- Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer
- CCSP
- CISSP