Cloud Security Tool Engineer: Secure Cloud Operations

Boston Government Services; Oak Ridge (TN); Hybrid; USD 142,418 - 167,550; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life Insurance

Paid vacation

401K

Long and Short-Term Disability

Job summary

Boston Government Services, LLC. (BGS) is seeking a Security Tool Engineer-Cloud Security Engineer to join our mission-focused team supporting federal clients across the United States.

The role focuses on operating, tuning, and integrating cybersecurity tools and cloud security controls in hybrid environments, maintaining security posture, and collaborating with SOC teams to respond to incidents. Candidates will have a strong foundation in security engineering, be comfortable with on-call

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Experience in cybersecurity engineering, cloud security, security tool administration, systems engineering, or security operations support.
• Familiarity with cloud security concepts, logging, identity, endpoint protection, vulnerability tooling, and monitoring platforms.
• Ability to troubleshoot technical issues and document configuration changes.
• Knowledge of secure system hardening, patching, availability, monitoring, and operational procedures.

Responsibilities

• Operate, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot cybersecurity tools and cloud security capabilities.
• Support deployment, tuning, patching, monitoring, backup verification, and availability of security platforms.
• Assist with SIEM, EDR, DLP, IDS/IPS, firewall, WAF, PAM, cloud security, vulnerability management, and endpoint security integrations.
• Review audit logs, identify suspicious activity, and coordinate with SOC/IR teams as needed.
• Support tool configuration documentation, maintenance logs, change records, gap remediation reports, and availability reporting.
• Provide engineering support for monitoring, alerting, visibility improvements, and process optimization.
• Assist with data protection, endpoint controls, and security infrastructure tasks in hybrid environments.

Skills

Cybersecurity engineering

Cloud security

Security tool administration

Systems engineering

Security operations support

Troubleshooting

Secure system hardening

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Splunk

Azure Security Engineer

AWS Security Specialty

CCSP

Security+

Palo Alto

Fortinet

Job description

Boston Government Services, LLC. (BGS) is seeking a Security Tool Engineer-Cloud Security Engineer to join our mission-focused team supporting federal clients across the United States.

The role focuses on operating, tuning, and integrating cybersecurity tools and cloud security controls in hybrid environments, maintaining security posture, and collaborating with SOC teams to respond to incidents. Candidates will have a strong foundation in security engineering, be comfortable with on-call