Offensive Security Engineer — Cloud & Automation

Vanguard; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard is seeking an Offensive Security Engineer to design, build, and scale cloud platforms and tooling for offensive security operations. You will automate provisioning, patching, and deployment, primarily in Azure with AWS support, and contribute to CI/CD pipelines, containerized patterns, and security tooling integration.

You will work with Red/Blue teams to harden platforms, manage IAM, networking, logging, and monitoring, and advance security automation across the enterprise.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Security Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DevSecOps, Platform Engineering, or related field.
• Strong hands-on experience designing and operating Microsoft Azure environments.
• Working knowledge of AWS services, networking, IAM, and security concepts.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, Bicep, or ARM.
• Experience automating solutions using Python, PowerShell, Bash, Go, or similar languages.
• Experience with Git-based development practices and CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of cloud networking, IAM, secrets management, logging, monitoring, and security controls.
• Strong understanding of Windows, Linux, networking, and cloud infrastructure fundamentals.
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, or other container technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain offensive security platforms and cloud environments.
• Engineer primarily in Microsoft Azure, with additional support across AWS.
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, Bicep/ARM, CloudFormation, or similar tools.
• Automate provisioning, deployment, patching, and lifecycle management using Python, PowerShell, Bash, Go, or similar languages.
• Build and support CI/CD pipelines, containerized solutions, and reusable deployment patterns.
• Deploy and integrate security tooling used for offensive testing, research, and automation.
• Implement cloud security controls, access management, monitoring, logging, and platform hardening.
• Collaborate with security practitioners to deliver scalable engineering solutions that enable offensive security operations.

Skills

Azure design/engineering

AWS familiarity

Infrastructure as Code

Scripting (Python/PowerShell/Bash/Go)

CI/CD pipelines

Git-based workflows

Containers (Docker/Kubernetes)

Cloud security concepts (IAM/logging/监

Windows/Linux fundamentals

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Vanguard is seeking an Offensive Security Engineer to design, build, and scale cloud platforms and tooling for offensive security operations. You will automate provisioning, patching, and deployment, primarily in Azure with AWS support, and contribute to CI/CD pipelines, containerized patterns, and security tooling integration.

You will work with Red/Blue teams to harden platforms, manage IAM, networking, logging, and monitoring, and advance security automation across the enterprise.