Senior Cloud Security Manager

Manulife Business Processing Services (MBPS); Quezon City; On-site; PHP 1,800,000 - 3,500,000; Full time

Job summary

MBPS in the Philippines is seeking a Senior Cloud Security Manager to join the Global Tech team. The role focuses on modernizing customer interactions, integrating analytics and AI into decisions, and delivering actionable insights to stakeholders.

You will lead access control design, automate reviews, and drive adoption across engineering teams while balancing security with operational efficiency. This position is based in Quezon City with a hybrid onsite requirement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology or equivalent.
• 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, or cloud security engineering.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, AliCloud), including core services, IAM/RBAC models, and infrastructure patterns
• Strong security mindset; knowledge of Access Management Frameworks and Least Privilege concepts.
• Automation-focused; writes automation to streamline tasks, tests, and workflows.
• Experience with Azure, Terraform, GitHub/GitHub Actions, Python, JIRA, Confluence.
• Knowledge of CI/CD, IaC (Terraform), and platform delivery models.
• Ability to collaborate with engineering teams and balance security with operations.
• Experience scripting (Python, PowerShell) or automation tools.
• Strong communication to lead discussions across teams and regions.
• Able to work at UP Ayala Technohub (Quezon City) in a hybrid setup (3x onsite).
• Willing to work night shifts or other schedules as needed.

Responsibilities

• Act as SME in access control and cloud-native patterns (least privilege, RBAC, secure-by-default).
• Own intake channels for access requests/exceptions with consistent approvals.
• Lead automated access review rollout and advocate standard access model.
• Drive adoption and changes in engineering workflows to support automation.
• Lead briefings, workshops, and demos including North America teams.
• Define rollout strategy, soft gate, and transition to hard enforcement.
• Collaborate with platform engineers to balance security and efficiency.
• Define and track adoption and automation success metrics.
• Post-adoption, handle exceptions beyond automation with justification and traceability.

Skills

Cloud security

Automation mindset

Communication skills

Stakeholder management

Adaptability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or IT

Tools

Azure

Terraform

GitHub

GitHub Actions

Python

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

We're looking for a Senior Cloud Security Manager to join our Global Tech team at MBPS. In this role, you will play a key, dynamic role in modernizing our customer interactions, helping to integrate analytics, business intelligence and AI into our decisions while providing actionable insights to stakeholders across the business.

Have the skills and experience for the job? Learn more about it below!

Position Responsibilities:

• Act as a subject matter expert in access control and cloud-native patterns, providing guidance on topics such as least privilege, RBAC design, and secure-by-default configurations.

• Own the intake channels for access requests and exceptions, ensuring consistency in decision-making across automated and manual pathways, so that engineering teams experience a predictable and transparent approval model.

• Act as the technical lead for the automated access review rollout, advocating the standard access model and control requirements to engineering teams.

• Drive adoption and behavioral change across engineering teams, ensuring the new approval process integrates smoothly into existing development and operational workflows

• Lead technical briefings, workshops, and demos (including with North America teams) to explain the automation and pre-requisites (such as process changes) for achieving the automation.

• Define and lead the rollout strategy, including introducing the solution as a soft gate, monitoring impact, and transitioning to hard enforcement once adoption stabilizes

• Work closely with platform engineers to understand constraints, address pushbacks, and refine solutions that balance security requirements with operational efficiency

• Define and track adoption and automation success rate metrics, guide application teams to meet the pre-requisites for automation to increase success rate.

• Post completing adoption, own the ongoing operation such as handling exceptions that fall outside of automation, including understanding the technical need, identify alternatives, escalating violations or approving with rationale and traceability.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology or equivalent.

• 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, or cloud security engineering roles

• Strong understanding of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, AliCloud), including core services, IAM/RBAC models, and infrastructure patterns

• Strong security mindset, Knowledge and understanding of any industry standard Access Management Framework, Principal of Least Privileged Access, Just-in-Time Access, RBAC and ABAC and Cloud Security

• Strong "automation-first" mindset. Writes automation(s) to streamline common tasks, tests, and workflows.

• Knowledge of following cloud platforms and Devop tools: Azure, Terraform, Github, GitHub Actions, Python, JIRA, Confluence, etc.

• Solid understanding of how engineering teams operate, including CI/CD pipelines,infrastructure-as-code(e.g., Terraform), and platform delivery models

• Proven ability to work with engineering teams, understand technical constraints, and drive practical solutions that balance security and operational needs

• Experience in designing or implementing automation solutions, with familiarity in scripting (e.g., Python, PowerShell) or working with automation tools

• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts, lead discussions, and influence stakeholders across multiple teams and regions

• Ability to handle ambiguity and pushback constructively, and drive alignment through technical reasoning and collaboration

• Experience tracking and improving adoption and compliance metrics for technical processes or platforms

• Amenable to work UP Ayala Technohub (Quezon City)

• Amenable to work on a hybrid set-up (3x a week onsite)

• Amenable to work in any shift schedule assigned (ideally night shift; but flexible depending on business need)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Self-driven, able to meet objectives with a minimal amount of managerialoversight/supervision.

• A team player who can interact with various internal functions such as business unit security officers, security engineers, reliability engineers, DevOps engineers.

• Advocate constant learning from both success and failure, and encourages openness to change and continuous improvement

When you join our team:

• We'll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.

• We'll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.

• As part of our global team, we'll support you in shaping the future you want to see.