Cloud Security Engineer: Design & Defend Cloud Infrastructure

Talentify; Memphis (TN); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision coverage

401k plan with match

Wellness initiatives

Life insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Stifel is seeking a Cloud Security Engineer to design, implement, and maintain security in cloud environments. You will protect confidentiality, integrity, and availability of cloud systems and data while working with cross-functional teams on risk assessments, policies, and incident response.

The role emphasizes building scalable security processes, tuning tools, and proactively improving cloud security posture across architecture and operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience with a public cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS.

Responsibilities

• Identify and resolve security issues across the cloud infrastructure.
• Build, deploy, and manage security tools and services.
• Design and implement scalable processes to provision cloud access.
• Maintain a low-touch, reliable, and user-friendly infrastructure.
• Evaluate and respond to alerts and events from security tools.
• Tune security tool configuration to minimize false positives.
• Develop event response documentation and processes, including diagrams for system environments, cloud operations, and security tools.
• Collaborate with security leadership, engineering, and compliance to execute security strategies.
• Assist other teams in solving security issues that comply with business requirements and best practices.
• Assess our current cloud security and propose improvements or solutions.
• Review our architecture and design through a security lens to provide actionable, timely requirements and recommendations.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for security tools, applications, and processes.

Skills

Cloud security knowledge

Security tool customization

CI/CD security testing

Networking & Unix/Linux

Programming languages

SQL & dashboards

Analytical problem solving

Strong collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS or related field

Tools

Vulnerability scanners

Static analyzers

IDS/IPS & firewalls

Endpoint security monitoring

CI/CD pipelines

Python

Java

C++

Ruby

SQL

Job description

Stifel is seeking a Cloud Security Engineer to design, implement, and maintain security in cloud environments. You will protect confidentiality, integrity, and availability of cloud systems and data while working with cross-functional teams on risk assessments, policies, and incident response.

The role emphasizes building scalable security processes, tuning tools, and proactively improving cloud security posture across architecture and operations.