Senior Cloud Security Manager

Manulife Financial; Quezon City; On-site; PHP 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Manulife Financial Corporation seeks a Senior Cloud Security Manager to lead the Global Tech team in modernizing cloud security, implementing access controls, RBAC, and secure-by-default configurations across platforms.

The role emphasizes automation, analytics integration, and collaboration with engineering teams across regions, guiding rollout and adoption of secure processes.

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 (AWS, Azure, AliCloud), IAM/RBAC models, and infrastructure patterns.
• Automation-first mindset; writes automations to streamline tasks, tests, and workflows.
• Experience with scripting (Python/PowerShell) or automation tools.
• Excellent communication and collaboration across teams and regions.

Responsibilities

• Act as SME in access control and cloud-native patterns, guiding least privilege, RBAC design, and secure-by-default configs.
• Own intake channels for access requests and exceptions with consistent decision-making.
• Lead automated access review rollout and standard access model implementation.
• Drive adoption and align automation with development and operations workflows.
• Lead technical briefings, workshops, and demos with cross-functional teams.
• Define rollout strategy and monitor impact; transition to hard enforcement when ready.
• Collaborate with platform engineers to balance security and efficiency.
• Define and track adoption and automation success metrics.
• Post-adoption, handle exceptions and escalations with rationale and traceability.

Skills

Cloud platforms

IAM/RBAC

Automation mindset

Scripting (Python, PowerShell)

CI/CD understanding

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT or equivalent

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.

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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 managerial oversight/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.

About Manulife and John Hancock

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. To learn more about us, visit https://www.manulife.com/en/about/our-story.html.

Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Manulife/John Hancock, we embrace our diversity. We strive to attract, develop and retain a workforce that is as diverse as the customers we serve and to foster an inclusive work environment that embraces the strength of cultures and individuals. We are committed to fair recruitment, retention, advancement and compensation, and we administer all of our practices and programs without discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, religion or religious beliefs, creed, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy‑related conditions), sexual orientation, genetic characteristics, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, or any other ground protected by applicable law.

It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation during the application process. All information shared during the accommodation request process will be stored and used in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws and Manulife/John Hancock policies. To request a reasonable accommodation in the application process, contact [e-mail].

Working Arrangement

Hybrid