Senior Cloud Security & Compliance Engineer – Remote

Qcells North America; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 146,000 - 183,000; Full time

Job summary

Qcells North America is seeking a hands-on Senior Security & Compliance Engineer to lead cloud security, operations, governance, risk, and compliance initiatives. The role spans threat monitoring, incident response, risk remediation, and ensuring policy alignment across frameworks.

Based in Irvine, SF, or Teaneck with in-office scheduling per management discretion; remote options available for exceptional cases.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in cybersecurity, cloud security, security operations, governance, risk, compliance or similar.
• Strong knowledge of IAM, VPCs, encryption, and cloud monitoring.
• Familiarity with FFIEC, SOX, SOC 2, ISO 27001 controls and audits.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain security and compliance strategy, roadmap, policies, standards, and controls.
• Lead security operations: threat detection, incident response, remediation, forensics coordination, and reporting.
• Ensure disaster recovery planning, backups, and SLA adherence (RPO/RTO).
• Align with privacy, audit, and regulatory requirements across frameworks.
• Monitor cloud environments (Azure, AWS, Salesforce) using SIEM and cloud-native tools.
• Lead root-cause analysis, remediation tracking, and control evidence for ISMS.

Skills

Cloud security

Incident response

Vulnerability remediation

Security monitoring

Audit readiness

Threat detection

Education

Bachelor's degree in information security / CS

Tools

SIEM

Cloud security tools

Job description

Qcells North America is seeking a hands-on Senior Security & Compliance Engineer to lead cloud security, operations, governance, risk, and compliance initiatives. The role spans threat monitoring, incident response, risk remediation, and ensuring policy alignment across frameworks.

Based in Irvine, SF, or Teaneck with in-office scheduling per management discretion; remote options available for exceptional cases.