Hands-On Cloud Security Engineer - Secure Cloud, Scale Safely

Motion Recruitment; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Benefits

Vision Benefits

PTO

401(k) with match

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is helping a leading global asset management firm to hire a Cloud Security Engineer. You design and implement security controls across multi-cloud environments and protect critical data and applications.

You will collaborate with infrastructure, software engineering, platform, and security teams to strengthen IAM, vulnerability management, and security automation while enabling compliant, scalable cloud deployments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 5+ years in cybersecurity or cloud security.
• Experience with multi-cloud security and DevSecOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud security controls across multi-cloud environments.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, software engineering, platform, and security teams to enforce security best practices.
• Manage IAM, vulnerability management, and security monitoring across cloud workloads.
• Support incident response investigations and implement automated security tooling and compliance controls.
• Evaluate cloud configurations and drive secure software development lifecycle practices.

Skills

AWS security

Azure security

GCP security

IAM

IaC (Terraform)

CloudFormation

SIEM

Networking security

Python

Security frameworks

Automation

DevSecOps

CI/CD security

Container security

Kubernetes security

Threat detection

Incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity/CS/Information Systems

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

SIEM tooling

Job description

Motion Recruitment is helping a leading global asset management firm to hire a Cloud Security Engineer. You design and implement security controls across multi-cloud environments and protect critical data and applications.

You will collaborate with infrastructure, software engineering, platform, and security teams to strengthen IAM, vulnerability management, and security automation while enabling compliant, scalable cloud deployments.