Senior Cloud Defense Engineer — AWS/Azure Security

Motion Recruitment; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Benefits

Vision Benefits

Paid Time Off (PTO)

401(k)

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to strengthen cloud defenses, enhance threat detection, and safeguard sensitive financial data. You will collaborate with security operations, infrastructure, data engineering, and applications teams to deploy proactive security solutions across cloud environments.

This hands-on role focuses on detection engineering, automation, and incident preparedness, requiring strong troubleshooting and cloud security tooling expertise.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of cybersecurity or cloud security engineering experience.
• Experience supporting global enterprise environments.
• Financial services or investment management experience.
• Experience with MITRE ATT&CK and threat modeling frameworks.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and container security.
• Experience building security dashboards and operational metrics.
• AWS Security Specialty, CISSP, GCIA, or related certifications.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain cloud threat detection rules and monitoring capabilities.
• Investigate cloud-based security incidents and support response efforts.
• Engineer automated solutions for identifying malicious activity and unauthorized access.
• Improve visibility across cloud infrastructure through logging, telemetry, and analytics.
• Partner with infrastructure teams to remediate security findings and reduce risk exposure.
• Conduct threat-hunting activities across cloud workloads and services.
• Implement security controls that protect sensitive investment and client data.
• Evaluate new cloud services and identify potential security risks prior to deployment.
• Create security automation workflows that improve operational efficiency.
• Build dashboards, reports, and metrics that measure cloud security performance.

Skills

AWS security

Azure security

Cloud monitoring

Threat hunting

SIEM (Splunk)

IAM & RBAC

Python

PowerShell

Bash

Automation scripting

EDR/XDR

Container security

Threat detection engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

Splunk

Microsoft Sentinel

Job description

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to strengthen cloud defenses, enhance threat detection, and safeguard sensitive financial data. You will collaborate with security operations, infrastructure, data engineering, and applications teams to deploy proactive security solutions across cloud environments.

This hands-on role focuses on detection engineering, automation, and incident preparedness, requiring strong troubleshooting and cloud security tooling expertise.