Cloud Security Engineer

Machine Learning Technologies, LLC; Omaha (NE); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Machine Learning Technologies, LLC in the United States is seeking a Cloud Security Engineer to own security across cloud workloads and SaaS migrations. You will design and implement guardrails, improve cloud-security posture, and partner with cloud-platform teams.

You will evaluate workloads, identities, configurations, and services for risk; lead remediation with engineering and security teams; help define standards and procedures; and support a low-volume on-call rotation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering or cloud security.
• Hands-on experience implementing cloud-security controls and guardrails.
• Experience securing Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud environments.
• Ability to explain configurations and remediations clearly.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain security controls and guardrails for cloud environments.
• Take hands-on ownership of cloud-security posture and control implementation.
• Evaluate cloud workloads, applications, identities, configurations, and services for security risk.
• Support secure application, workload, and SaaS migrations.
• Establish security requirements throughout the migration lifecycle, from design through production.
• Use cloud-security posture management and cloud-native application protection tooling to identify and prioritize risks.
• Work with platform and application teams to remediate cloud-security findings.
• Partner with a principal engineer on cloud-security architecture and implementation.
• Collaborate with vulnerability-management, infrastructure, identity, application, and development teams.
• Help define cloud-security standards, patterns, controls, and operating procedures.
• Validate that implemented controls are working as intended.
• Provide technical guidance on cloud misconfigurations, excessive permissions, exposed services, insecure workloads, and related risks.
• Support a low-volume on-call rotation.

Skills

Cloud security

Guardrails

Multi-cloud

IAM & access control

Vulnerability management

Security design

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

US Citizen, Green Card, H-1B, OPT-EAD, CPT, Other

Work Authorization:US Citizen, Green Card, OPT-EAD, CPT, H-1B, H4-EAD, Other

Job Description:

An organization is seeking a Cloud Security Engineer to take ownership of security across cloud workloads and SaaS migrations. This person will help design and implement cloud guardrails, improve cloud-security posture, support secure application migrations, and partner with cloud-platform and vulnerability-management teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain security controls and guardrails for cloud environments.
• Take hands-on ownership of cloud-security posture and control implementation.
• Evaluate cloud workloads, applications, identities, configurations, and services for security risk.
• Support secure application, workload, and SaaS migrations.
• Establish security requirements throughout the migration lifecycle, from design through production.
• Use cloud-security posture management and cloud-native application protection tooling to identify and prioritize risks.
• Work with platform and application teams to remediate cloud-security findings.
• Partner with a principal engineer on cloud-security architecture and implementation.
• Collaborate with vulnerability-management, infrastructure, identity, application, and development teams.
• Help define cloud-security standards, patterns, controls, and operating procedures.
• Validate that implemented controls are working as intended.
• Provide technical guidance on cloud misconfigurations, excessive permissions, exposed services, insecure workloads, and related risks.
• Support a low-volume on-call rotation.

Required Qualifications:

• Five or more years of relevant experience in cloud engineering, cloud security, infrastructure security, or a related technical discipline.
• Hands-on experience implementing cloud-security controls, guardrails, or security configurations.
• Experience securing Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud environments.
• Understanding of cloud identity, networking, workload, data, configuration, and platform-security concepts.
• Experience supporting the security of a cloud workload, application, or SaaS migration.
• Ability to move between security design and hands-on implementation.
• Ability to explain specifically what was personally configured, deployed, tested, or remediated.
• Strong troubleshooting and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to work with cloud-platform, application, identity, and vulnerability-management teams.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.