Cloud Security Engineer – Multi-Cloud & DevSecOps

Xcel Energy Services Inc; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Xcel Energy Services Inc. is seeking a Security Engineer - Multi-Cloud to build and run the cloud security program across AWS and GCP. The role emphasizes reducing risk via visibility, guardrails, and automation, reporting to the Manager, Vulnerability Management. Strong AWS/GCP skills and cloud security experience are essential.

This role supports a hybrid work model with onsite days and collaboration across teams including SAP and Enterprise Architecture to drive secure cloud transformations.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in cloud security.
• Expert-level hands-on experience in either AWS or GCP.
• Azure familiarity is nice to have but not required.
• Strong understanding of cloud IAM, networking, logging, monitoring, and workload security.
• Experience with DevSecOps principles, CI/CD pipelines, and application security fundamentals.
• Basic understanding of SAP environments in cloud-hosted architectures.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary cloud security engineer with deep AWS or GCP expertise; AWS preferred.
• Use cloud-native security capabilities to identify and analyze risk.
• Maintain visibility across IAM, network, logging, monitoring, and workload security posture.
• Identify issues like overly permissive access, unused accounts, misconfigurations.
• Develop and implement guardrails to prevent insecure configurations and reduce risk.
• Promote hardened images, containers, and standardized builds for deployments.
• Integrate cloud security findings into existing workflows and coordinate remediation with teams.
• Collaborate with SAP cloud security needs and related risks.

Skills

Cloud security

AWS

GCP

Azure familiarity

IAM

CI/CD pipelines

DevSecOps

Automation

Security governance

Threat modeling

Tools

AWS Inspector

Security Hub

Cloud Security Center

Defender for Cloud

Job description

Xcel Energy Services Inc. is seeking a Security Engineer - Multi-Cloud to build and run the cloud security program across AWS and GCP. The role emphasizes reducing risk via visibility, guardrails, and automation, reporting to the Manager, Vulnerability Management. Strong AWS/GCP skills and cloud security experience are essential.

This role supports a hybrid work model with onsite days and collaboration across teams including SAP and Enterprise Architecture to drive secure cloud transformations.