Remote Cloud Security Engineering Manager (AWS & Kubernetes)

Qualia; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

401k program

Commuter benefits

Professional development

Parental leave

Flexible time off

Job summary

Qualia is seeking a player-coach Engineering Manager to build and lead the Cloud Security team. You’ll define the direction for securing AWS, Kubernetes and production paths, hiring two senior engineers to execute with you, and hands-on review of Terraform plans and IAM policies.

The role emphasizes default secure configurations, guardrails, and policy-as-code. Remote-friendly with Austin office, hybrid options available for nearby candidates.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in security, infra, or platform engineering on production cloud systems.
• 2+ years leading engineers; player-coach style leadership.
• Deep hands-on AWS security: IAM, VPC, logging, data protection.
• Production Kubernetes security: RBAC, network policy, image hygiene.
• IaC fluency (Terraform or similar) and guardrails adoption.
• Strong written communication and leadership metrics.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the Cloud Security team; own delivery against roadmap.
• Own cloud security architecture; standardize AWS account structure & network segmentation.
• Manage identity and access for production; enforce least privilege.
• Ship guardrails as code; implement policy-as-code checks.
• Own posture management; build in-house posture checks and triage queue.
• Build detection and respond with SRE; partner on incident response.
• Secure the delivery pipeline; protect CI/CD and credentials.
• Collaborate with engineering; represent Cloud Security in audits & reviews.

Skills

Cloud security leadership

AWS security

Kubernetes security

Infrastructure as code

Team management

Communication

Threat detection & response

Tools

Terraform

IAM & Organizations

Okta

CI/CD tooling

Kubernetes

Job description

Qualia is seeking a player-coach Engineering Manager to build and lead the Cloud Security team. You’ll define the direction for securing AWS, Kubernetes and production paths, hiring two senior engineers to execute with you, and hands-on review of Terraform plans and IAM policies.

The role emphasizes default secure configurations, guardrails, and policy-as-code. Remote-friendly with Austin office, hybrid options available for nearby candidates.