Cloud Security Engineer - DevSecOps & IAM Guardian

Calance; Lemont (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Calance is seeking a Cloud Security Engineer to secure cloud platforms and modern app environments, focusing on implementing security controls and monitoring. This role emphasizes hands-on work across GCP and Azure, IAM, data protection, and DevSecOps practices, working closely with engineering, platform, and application teams to balance security with business goals.

The ideal candidate will collaborate across infrastructure and development teams to improve security posture, respond to findings,

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in cloud security or related field.
• Hands-on experience with GCP security services.
• Experience securing cloud workloads, identities, and data.
• Familiarity with incident response and vulnerability management.
• Strong IAM, encryption, logging, threat detection fundamentals.
• Experience with DevSecOps and CI/CD security practices.
• Excellent communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain cloud security controls across GCP and Azure.
• Design and deploy cloud security guardrails and policy enforcement.
• Support IAM initiatives including least-privilege and identity federation.
• Secure cloud services, workloads, and data through hardening and reviews.
• Contribute to security automation using IaC and scripting.
• Integrate security tools to improve visibility and posture.
• Monitor alerts and respond to incidents in cloud environments.
• Assist in incident response and root cause analysis.

Skills

Cloud Security

GCP Security

IAM & Access Mgmt

DevSecOps

CI/CD security

Threat detection

Data protection

Tools

GCP security services

CNAPP

CSPM

SCA/Dependency scanning

CI/CD tools

Job description

Calance is seeking a Cloud Security Engineer to secure cloud platforms and modern app environments, focusing on implementing security controls and monitoring. This role emphasizes hands-on work across GCP and Azure, IAM, data protection, and DevSecOps practices, working closely with engineering, platform, and application teams to balance security with business goals.

The ideal candidate will collaborate across infrastructure and development teams to improve security posture, respond to findings,