Cloud Security Engineer

smiledigitalhealth; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Retirement plan

Life and disability coverage

Employee assistance program

Job summary

smiledigitalhealth is seeking a Cloud Security Engineer to design, automate, and operate secure production infrastructure across major cloud platforms. You will partner with architecture and development to deliver highly available environments while ensuring security and compliance across SOC 2, HIPAA, and ISO 27001 frameworks.

The role is remote, offers flexible time-off policies, and emphasizes automation, reliability, and operational maturity.

Qualifications

• Six+ years IT experience in infrastructure or platform automation.
• Four+ years engineering and supporting containerized environments (Kubernetes/OpenShift, Docker).
• Four+ years working with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, OCI, or GCP).
• Experience delivering end-to-end cloud solutions from architecture docs to implementation.
• Strong networking fundamentals and security/compliance controls (SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001).
• Experience with IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation) and operational knowledge docs.

Responsibilities

• Partner with architecture and development to build highly available cloud environments for deployments.
• Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable infrastructure platforms and internal tools.
• Provide advanced technical support for internal teams, customers, and partners, incl. issue investigations.
• Guide customers on cloud deployment patterns and act as SME for core product infrastructure.
• Perform troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and maintenance planning; improve on-call processes.
• Document procedures, best practices, and insights for feedback to development teams.

Skills

Infrastructure automation

End-to-end cloud design

Security & compliance

On-call processes

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Job description

Role overview

The Cloud Security Engineer designs, automates, and operates secure, production-grade infrastructure for customer environments across major cloud platforms. The role combines architecture, platform engineering, container operations, security, compliance, and advanced technical support, with a strong focus on reliability and operational maturity.

Responsibilities

• Partner with architecture and development teams to build highly available cloud environments for internal and external deployments.
• Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable infrastructure platforms and supporting internal tools.
• Provide advanced technical support for internal teams, customers, and partners, including investigation of integration and implementation issues.
• Guide customers on cloud deployment patterns and act as a subject-matter expert for infrastructure supporting core products.
• Perform troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, maintenance planning, and on-call process improvements.
• Document operating procedures, best practices, and lessons learned, and feed implementation insights back to development teams.

Requirements

• At least six years of information technology experience, including infrastructure or platform automation.
• At least four years engineering and supporting containerized environments, including Kubernetes or OpenShift and Docker.
• At least four years working with one or more major cloud providers, such as AWS, Azure, OCI, or GCP.
• Experience delivering end-to-end cloud solutions from detailed architecture documents and translating customer needs into new infrastructure.
• Strong networking fundamentals and practical knowledge of security and compliance controls for SOC 2, HIPAA, and ISO 27001 environments.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation, plus troubleshooting escalations and documenting operational knowledge.

Nice to have

Professional cloud certifications are preferred. Experience managing customer environments and optimizing infrastructure for high-velocity software teams is valuable.

Benefits and work setup

The position is remote and includes flexible time-away policies, health and medical coverage, retirement contribution programs, life and disability coverage, an employee assistance program, and access to technical learning and study programs. The workplace emphasizes inclusion, respect, belonging, and reasonable accommodations.