Cloud Security Engineer — IaC & Compliance

sggovterp; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

sggovterp is seeking a skilled Cloud Security Specialist to safeguard our cloud environments across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. You will design, implement, and maintain security measures in collaboration with cross-functional teams.

You will manage cloud security strategy, enforce policies, and respond to incidents. This role emphasizes IaC security, automation, and ongoing compliance with industry best practices.

Qualifications

• 2+ years designing, implementing, and managing security in cloud environments.
• Understand cloud security principles including network security, encryption, IAM and monitoring.
• Implemented security within IaC frameworks (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible) to ensure secure provisioning.
• Good to have: CCSP, CISSP, AWS Certified Security – Specialty or equivalent.
• Proficient in scripting (Python/PowerShell) for automation.
• Experience with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS ECS) and CI/CD security tooling.

Responsibilities

• Review, update, and enforce cloud security policies and architecture designs.
• Identify security gaps in cloud environments and evaluate mitigations or third‑party solutions.
• Design and implement secure cloud infrastructure to support new deployments.
• Maintain IaC using Terraform or CloudFormation and apply policy changes.
• Build and maintain automation scripts to streamline provisioning, configuration management, and incident response.
• Support audit and compliance activities with evidence of controls and detailed reports.
• Monitor security incidents, assist investigations, and implement remediation measures.
• Perform timely patching according to remediation timelines.
• Communicate findings and remediation plans to stakeholders, and create management reports.
• Analyse security metrics and trends for reporting to management.

Skills

Cloud security

Threat detection

Identity and access management

Security monitoring

Automation

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS ECS

Git

GitLab

Jenkins

SAST

DAST

SCA

Job description

sggovterp is seeking a skilled Cloud Security Specialist to safeguard our cloud environments across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. You will design, implement, and maintain security measures in collaboration with cross-functional teams.

You will manage cloud security strategy, enforce policies, and respond to incidents. This role emphasizes IaC security, automation, and ongoing compliance with industry best practices.