Remote Cloud Cyber Engineer—Vulnerability & Threat Defense

CDM Smith; Mobile (AL); Remote; USD 123,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

CDM Smith is seeking a Cyber Engineer to support our Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) journey. You will identify, track, and verify remediation across internal and external applications and systems, partnering with IT and security operations to reduce vulnerabilities and attack surface risk.

You will help architect, deploy, and operate secure cloud application infrastructure, applying strong engineering and design skills while maintaining policy controls that align with business

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• 8 years of related experience.
• Experience with CTEM or vulnerability management is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain secure, resilient cloud & on‑prem processes in tandem with architects and system engineers.
• Secure AI & NHI at scale.
• Secure business applications and computing environments across cloud infrastructures.
• Protect applications in privacy, security and compliance frameworks.
• Maintain a secure environment using configuration management tools (e.g., Puppet, Chef, Ansible).
• Deploy identity and access management controls across environments.
• Assist with scripts to support ETL tools with a security focus.
• Lead vulnerability management and report remediation progress to security leadership.
• Monitor threats and recommend initiatives to reduce attack surface.
• Document and enforce security improvements balancing risk with operations.

Skills

Cloud security

Automation scripting

Zero trust

Vulnerability management

Security architecture

Threat assessment

Team collaboration

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Bicep

AKS

Terraform

Kafka

Kubernetes

Helm

OpenShift

Python/JavaScript

Job description

CDM Smith is seeking a Cyber Engineer to support our Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) journey. You will identify, track, and verify remediation across internal and external applications and systems, partnering with IT and security operations to reduce vulnerabilities and attack surface risk.

You will help architect, deploy, and operate secure cloud application infrastructure, applying strong engineering and design skills while maintaining policy controls that align with business