Cloud Engineer

The Cake; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing enterprise platform seeks a hands-on Cloud Security Engineer with extensive Oracle Cloud Infrastructure experience. This fully remote role involves managing security across multi-cloud environments, ensuring compliance, and improving automation processes. The ideal candidate has deep expertise in IAM, Terraform, and security tools like Datadog, with a commitment to securing critical infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in cybersecurity or infrastructure security roles.
• 3+ years hands-on with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
• Deep knowledge of IAM and OCI security tools.

Responsibilities

• Configure and maintain OCI compute, networking, and storage.
• Implement and manage IAM policies and configurations.
• Enforce traffic-control policies across multi-cloud environments.

Skills

IAM

VCNs

Terraform

Ansible

Bash

Python

Tools

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Datadog

Crowdstrike

Tenable

SIEM

GitHub

GitHub Actions

Job description

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Type: Freelance, 40 hrs/week

Start: July 2025

Length: 1 year contract, with potential to extend

Location: Remote (U.S. based)

Compensation: Up to $70/hr DOE

A fast-growing enterprise platform is seeking a hands-on Cloud Security Engineer with deep Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) experience. This role will manage security, automation, and compliance across a complex multi-cloud environment, supporting critical infrastructure and cross-functional initiatives.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Configure and maintain OCI compute, networking (VCNs, subnets, gateways), storage, and load balancers
• Enforce traffic-control policies across OCI and multi-cloud environments (e.g., AWS transit, firewalls, NAT gateways)
• Implement and manage IAM (policies, compartments, dynamic groups, federation)
• Apply CIS Benchmarks and hardening across infrastructure
• Manage patching, vulnerability remediation, and secure configuration pipelines
• Operate and improve end-to-end monitoring with tools like Datadog, OCI Metrics, PagerDuty
• Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, GitHub, and GitHub Actions
• Orchestrate config and patch management at scale with Ansible
• Maintain backups, HA, and DR readiness in OCI
• Investigate and remediate security events using OCI-native tools (Cloud Guard, Security Zones, Logging)
• Collaborate with security, engineering, and finance teams to optimize cost, security, and scalability
• Document processes, controls, and support internal knowledge transfer

Must-Haves (Don’t Apply Without These)

• 5+ years in cybersecurity or infrastructure security roles
• 3+ years hands-on with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
• Deep knowledge of IAM, VCNs, compartments, and OCI security tools
• Proficiency in Terraform and Ansible
• Experience with patching, compliance (e.g., SOC 2, HIPAA), and system hardening
• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting tools like Datadog
• Scripting ability in Bash or Python for automation and incident response
• Experience with tools like Crowdstrike, Tenable, Teleport, SIEM

You’ll Stand Out If You…

• Hold OCI Security or Architect certifications
• Have experience with hybrid (on-prem + OCI) setups
• Worked with SIEM integrations (Splunk, QRadar)
• Are familiar with DevSecOps practices and GitHub Actions CI/CD
• Know logging tools like Cribl Stream
• Have AWS networking experience and understand multi-cloud environments

This is a 12-month freelance contract (40 hrs/week), fully remote. Performance-based extension possible.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Industries

  Staffing and Recruiting and Technology, Information and Media

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