About the job
The Cloud Security Engineer is responsible for securing cloud-native infrastructure, applications, and workloads hosted in AWS and Azure. This role designs and enforces proactive security controls across the full cloud stack, monitors and responds to threats, integrates security into CI/CD pipelines, and manages firewall and perimeter defenses using AWS and Azure native and third-party tooling. The goal is to strengthen the organization's cloud security posture in line with industry best practices and enterprise governance standards.
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Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities:
- Design, implement, and manage secure cloud architectures across AWS and Azure environments, adhering to industry best practices, security frameworks, and enterprise governance standards.
- Manage AWS Control Tower and Landing Zone Accelerator environments, including account governance, Service Control Policies (SCPs), Guardrails, AWS Config Rules, and AWS Organizations security controls.
- Design and implement Azure Landing Zones, Management Groups, Azure Policy, Azure Blueprints, and enterprise governance frameworks.
- Implement, configure, and manage cloud-native security services, including:
- AWS: GuardDuty, Security Hub, Inspector, Macie, IAM Access Analyzer, AWS Config, CloudTrail, AWS WAF, Shield, Firewall Manager, KMS, and Secrets Manager.
- Azure: Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Sentinel, Azure Firewall, Azure DDoS Protection, Azure Key Vault, Azure Policy, Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), and Microsoft Defender for Identity.
- Define and manage operational processes for cloud security monitoring, alert triage, incident response, ticketing, and remediation through SIEM/SOAR platforms such as Microsoft Sentinel, Elastic SIEM, and Microsoft Defender XDR, and ITSM platforms including Jira and ServiceNow.
- Provision and manage cloud infrastructure hands-on using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Azure ARM Templates, or Bicep.
- Implement IaC security controls by integrating automated security scanning, policy validation, compliance checks, and infrastructure misconfiguration detection into CI/CD pipelines using industry-standard tools and best practices.
- Conduct cloud security incident investigations, forensic analysis, and Root Cause Analysis (RCA), working closely with engineering teams to implement permanent corrective actions.
- Perform vulnerability management across cloud infrastructure, virtual machines, containers, Kubernetes clusters, serverless workloads, storage services, databases, and cloud-native applications.
- Implement cloud identity and access security using AWS IAM, IAM Identity Center, Microsoft Entra ID, Privileged Identity Management (PIM), Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Conditional Access, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), and Zero Trust security principles.
- Design and secure cloud networking components including VPC/VNet, Security Groups, NSGs, NACLs, Transit Gateway, Azure Virtual WAN, Private Link, VPN, Direct Connect, ExpressRoute, Application Load Balancers, and Network Load Balancers.
- Develop and maintain cloud security dashboards, KPIs/KRIs, operational runbooks, architecture diagrams, compliance reports, and standard operating procedures.
Certifications (preferred):
- AWS Certified Security — Specialty
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500)
- Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)
- GIAC Cloud Security Automation (GCSA)
- Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) or Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- CISSP or other relevant cloud security certifications
