Senior Cloud Security Engineer

Zachary Piper, LLC; United States; Remote; USD 135,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Senior Cloud Security Engineer (AWS/Azure) to design, secure, and optimize enterprise cloud environments. This fully remote role focuses on implementing WAF-based protection, IAM governance, and scalable serverless architectures across multi-cloud platforms.

The ideal candidate brings 5+ years in cloud security, hands-on Terraform and CI/CD experience, and a proven ability to work autonomously in fast-paced enterprise settings. No clearance required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience designing, implementing, and securing AWS and Azure cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of IAM, service principals, cross-account access management, and vulnerability remediation.
• Ability to independently design and deploy new cloud infrastructure without step-by-step direction.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and secure AWS and Azure cloud infrastructure based on diagrams.
• Build and maintain shared infrastructure services, including WAF-as-a-Service solutions using Barracuda WAF.
• Review cloud architecture designs for misconfigurations and access issues; triage security findings.
• Develop and support serverless architectures and CI/CD pipelines using Infrastructure as Code.
• Provide remediation guidance to engineering teams.

Skills

Cloud security expertise

Cross-cloud security

Tools

Terraform

Terraform Enterprise

AWS CodeBuild

GitHub Runners

Barracuda WAF

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Senior Cloud Security Engineer (AWS/Azure) to support a company focused on building and securing enterprise cloud infrastructure and cloud-native security solutions. This position is fully remote.

Responsibilities for the Senior Cloud Security Engineer include:

• Design, implement, and secure AWS and Azure cloud infrastructure based on conceptual architecture diagrams.
• Build and maintain shared infrastructure services, including WAF-as-a-Service solutions utilizing Barracuda WAF, along with supporting load balancers, NAT gateways, VPCs, networking, and subnet architectures.
• Review cloud architecture designs to identify security misconfigurations, IAM/service principal issues, and cross-account access risks.
• Investigate and triage security findings from Wiz and Cycode, providing remediation recommendations and guidance to engineering teams.
• Develop and support complex serverless architectures and automated deployment pipelines using Infrastructure as Code methodologies.

Required Qualifications for the Senior Cloud Security Engineer include:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience designing, implementing, and securing AWS and Azure cloud environments.
• Experience with Terraform, Terraform Enterprise, AWS CodeBuild, GitHub Runners, and Infrastructure as Code best practices.
• Experience deploying, managing, and securing Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions, preferably Barracuda WAF, in enterprise cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, IAM, service principals, cross-account access management, vulnerability remediation, and architecture reviews.
• Proven ability to independently design and deploy new cloud infrastructure without established patterns or step-by-step direction.
• No clearance required.

Compensation for the Senior Cloud Security Engineer include:

Salary Range: $135,000 - $145,000 depending on experience

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Keywords:

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