Cloud Security & IaC Engineer 5 - Hybrid (6-Month)

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC; Des Moines (IA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Benefits

Vision Benefits

Paid Time Off (PTO)

401(k)

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC in Des Moines, IA is seeking a Technology and Data Engineer 5 to join a hybrid team focused on securing cloud infrastructure and embedding automated controls into CI/CD workflows.

The role emphasizes IaC security, policy governance, and strengthening security oversight across the software delivery lifecycle. Availability for a 6-month contract and W2 status are required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Engineering experience or equivalent demonstrated through work, training, military, or education.
• 8+ years in AppSec, Cloud Security, or DevSecOps with hands-on Terraform and Kubernetes security experience.
• Practical experience operating Wiz (or similar) for IaC in CI/CD environments.
• Policy as Code skills using OPA/Rego or equivalent rule tuning experience.
• Strong CI/CD knowledge and Git workflow experience.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to support development teams and drive remediation efforts.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and tune custom IaC rules in Rego/OPA to extend security coverage beyond built-in capabilities.
• Build automated regression tests using Terraform plans, Kubernetes manifests, and sample repositories.
• Perform pipeline health checks and investigate failed security scans.
• Monitor platform availability and scanning effectiveness to minimize engineering disruption.
• Validate finding severity and remove duplicate or inaccurate results.
• Route security issues to the appropriate service and application owners.
• Tune policy-as-code controls in alignment with enterprise standards and governance requirements.
• Implement staged enforcement models using report, warning, and blocking controls.
• Integrate Wiz CLI into CI/CD workflows and configure security gates.
• Publish security artifacts for traceability and compliance reporting.
• Deploy and maintain Wiz DevOps extensions and scanning integrations.
• Support GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, and Jenkins security workflows.
• Enable pull-request, merge-request, local workstation, and IDE-based scanning capabilities.
• Partner with platform engineering teams to standardize secure deployment templates.
• Deliver remediation guidance and support developer adoption efforts.
• Conduct office hours, troubleshooting sessions, and training activities.
• Manage policy package updates, platform upgrades, and regression testing efforts.
• Coordinate with vendors regarding defects, enhancements, and product roadmap items.
• Maintain findings exception processes and compensating-control documentation.
• Integrate findings management activities with ServiceNow workflows.
• Produce operational metrics, audit evidence, executive dashboards, and compliance reporting.

Skills

AppSec / Cloud Security / DevSecOps

Terraform security

Kubernetes security

Policy as Code (OPA/Rego)

CI/CD & Git workflows

Excellent communication

Wiz IaC experience

Tools

Wiz

Terraform

Kubernetes

JIRA

VS Code

Job description

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC in Des Moines, IA is seeking a Technology and Data Engineer 5 to join a hybrid team focused on securing cloud infrastructure and embedding automated controls into CI/CD workflows.

The role emphasizes IaC security, policy governance, and strengthening security oversight across the software delivery lifecycle. Availability for a 6-month contract and W2 status are required.