Cloud Security Engineer – Azure & AWS (Onsite Charlotte)

Cybersecurity Jobs; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Cybersecurity Jobs is seeking a Senior Associate Security Engineer (Cloud Security) to implement cloud security across Azure, AWS, and on‑premises environments in Charlotte, NC. The role collaborates with DevOps and engineering teams to enforce secure-by-design practices and policy‑as‑code controls.

You will conduct security architecture reviews, threat modeling, and configuration assessments, using Azure and AWS native services and enterprise tools to improve preventive and detective controls.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and work‑related experience.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in security engineering or related cybersecurity roles.
• Developing knowledge of cybersecurity principles, theories, and concepts.
• Experience in software development lifecycle security practices.
• Proficiency in implementing and managing information security technologies.

Responsibilities

• Implement cybersecurity solutions to protect critical assets across Azure, AWS, and on-premises.
• Support cloud security architecture reviews and perform security configuration assessments, threat modeling, and testing.
• Integrate and configure information security technologies in Azure and AWS test and production environments.
• Implement and maintain cloud security controls, including identity and access management, least-privilege access, network security, encryption, logging and monitoring, vulnerability management, and secure configuration baselines.
• Use Azure and AWS native security services to assess posture, investigate findings, validate remediation, and improve preventive and detective controls.
• Analyze cloud security findings, determine applicable risk and remediation actions, collaborate with engineering teams, and validate that security issues are resolved.
• Investigate security issues escalated within the team for in‑scope services, perform root‑cause analysis, and implement practical fixes to prevent recurrence.
• Review relevant cloud threats, tools, architecture options, and shared‑responsibility considerations, providing input to support technical plans and priorities for the job area.
• Collaborate with product, platform, application, DevOps, and engineering teammates to apply security guidelines, secure‑by‑design practices, cloud governance requirements, and policy‑as‑code controls in day‑to‑day delivery activities.
• Implement and maintain approved Azure and AWS security baselines, guardrails, and governance controls for assigned cloud services and environments, including AWS organizational guardrails and Azure policy controls.
• Support incident response and forensic analysis for assigned cloud services by following established playbooks and using approved Azure and AWS logging, monitoring, and security capabilities.
• Share cloud security knowledge and best practices with technical teammates through informal guidance and support during code reviews, architecture discussions, design reviews, and pairing sessions.
• Plan and manage own work to meet defined objectives and milestones, seeking feedback, pursuing self‑development, and adjusting approaches to improve quality and effectiveness.

Skills

Azure

AWS

Infrastructure-as-code

Automation

Identity and access management

Least-privilege access

Network security

Encryption

Logging and monitoring

Vulnerability management

Secure configuration baselines

Policy-as-code controls

CI/CD pipelines

DevOps

AWS organizational guardrails

Azure policy controls

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

Cybersecurity Jobs is seeking a Senior Associate Security Engineer (Cloud Security) to implement cloud security across Azure, AWS, and on‑premises environments in Charlotte, NC. The role collaborates with DevOps and engineering teams to enforce secure-by-design practices and policy‑as‑code controls.

You will conduct security architecture reviews, threat modeling, and configuration assessments, using Azure and AWS native services and enterprise tools to improve preventive and detective controls.