Remote Cloud Security Operations Manager

Naukri Mitra; United States; Remote; USD 38,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Naukri Mitra is hiring a Remote Cloud Security Operations Manager to lead day-to-day security operations for cloud environments, with options for part-time or full-time, fully remote.

You will manage a small distributed team, set incident priorities, review findings, and stay hands-on when needed to keep systems secure. This role emphasizes risk reduction, audits, and collaboration with IT to implement fixes while ensuring compliance.

Qualifications

• Lead distributed or remote teams with accountability.
• Deep familiarity with cloud infrastructure and cloud security protocols.
• Strong analytical instincts for security event patterns.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing daily cloud security operations and setting priorities for the team.
• Reviewing and responding to security incidents, deciding how they get escalated.
• Identifying risks in cloud infrastructure and building out plans to reduce them.
• Coordinating with IT and engineering teams on fixes that need cross-team buy-in.
• Running vulnerability assessments and periodic audits.
• Keeping operations aligned with compliance requirements and internal policy.

Skills

Team leadership

Cloud security

Incident response

Vulnerability management

Compliance awareness

Job description

Cloud environments don't stay still. New services get spun up, permissions drift, and someone leaves a bucket open they meant to lock down. Someone has to be watching it all and making the calls when something needs fixing fast. That's the job. We're hiring a Remote Cloud Security Operations Manager, open to both part-time and full-time, fully remote.

What the Role Covers

You'd be running the day-to-day security operations for cloud environments, not just watching dashboards but actually deciding what gets prioritized when three things go wrong at once. That means leading a small team, setting the pace on how incidents get handled, and making sure the people reporting to you have what they need to do their jobs well. This isn't a hands-off management role. You'll still be close to the technical side, reviewing findings, questioning assumptions, occasionally digging into something yourself when it matters.

• Overseeing daily cloud security operations and setting priorities for the team
• Reviewing and responding to security incidents, deciding how they get escalated
• Identifying risks in cloud infrastructure and building out plans to reduce them
• Coordinating with IT and engineering teams on fixes that need cross-team buy-in
• Running vulnerability assessments and periodic audits
• Keeping operations aligned with compliance requirements and internal policy

What You Need

Coming In This is a management role built on real operational experience, not a title handed to someone who's only worked adjacent to security. You should have led a team before, even a small one, and understand what it takes to keep people accountable while working remotely. Deep familiarity with cloud infrastructure is non-negotiable, along with a working understanding of the cybersecurity protocols that apply specifically to cloud environments, not just general IT security. Strong analytical instincts matter more here than most people expect. A lot of the job is pattern recognition, noticing that three unrelated alerts might actually be one problem, or that a "minor" misconfiguration is sitting right next to something far more sensitive.

Where You Can Stand Out Experience managing distributed or fully remote teams specifically, not just remote work as an individual contributor, will set you apart. Same goes for a track record building out security strategy from scratch rather than maintaining something someone else already built. If you've handled high-profile or sensitive projects with genuinely high stakes, that experience is relevant here too.

Pay and Schedule

The role pays around $42,000 a year. Part-time offers flexible hours built around a core set of responsibilities, which is useful if you're managing this alongside other commitments. Full-time comes with a steadier rhythm and the fuller benefits package. Both are remote, so location isn't a factor as long as you can lead a distributed team effectively.

• Part-time offers flexible hours built around a core set of responsibilities, which is useful if you're managing this alongside other commitments.
• Full-time comes with a steadier rhythm and the fuller benefits package.
• Both are remote, so location isn't a factor as long as you can lead a distributed team effectively.

Why This Team

Security management roles get filled fast at most companies, sometimes without much thought about whether the person actually fits how the team works. Naukri Mitra tries to slow that down a little; we'd rather take an extra week matching the right manager to the right team than rush someone into a role they'll struggle in. Managers who do well here tend to stay long enough to actually shape how the security operation runs, rather than inheriting someone else's system and just maintaining it. Several have gone on to take bigger scope as the cloud security function has grown.

How This Team Actually Works

You'll have real autonomy over how your team operates day-to-day. Nobody's dictating your process down to the hour. What matters is that incidents are handled well, the team stays accountable, and you communicate clearly with the people above and below you. Most coordination happens asynchronously, with real-time conversations reserved for things that actually need them, like an incident that's escalating.