Senior Cloud Security Engineer - Automation & DevSecOps

International Business Machines Corporation; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) Software is seeking a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to design and build scalable security capabilities across AWS, Azure, GCP, and other cloud environments. You will architect production-grade tooling in Go/Python, implement secure-by-default patterns, and lead security initiatives across multiple engineering teams.

The role emphasizes expanding preventative controls, automating guardrails, and integrating security into CI/CD workflows, while

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with production systems experience.
• Deep hands-on cloud security experience with AWS and/or Azure.
• Experience with Terraform, IaC and secure-by-default patterns.
• Experience integrating security into CI/CD and engineering workflows.
• Ability to lead complex cloud security initiatives across teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of cloud security architecture across AWS, Azure, GCP, and other clouds.
• Architect and build production-grade security tooling and automation using Go and Python.
• Design preventative security controls and automated guardrails with Terraform and IaC.
• Establish scalable security patterns across IAM, networking, Kubernetes, secrets, PKI, and workload protection.
• Integrate security controls into CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure provisioning.
• Provide technical leadership for complex cloud security initiatives.
• Identify systemic cloud security risks and translate them into reusable patterns and controls.
• Partner with platform, infra, product, and security teams for architecture reviews.
• Improve CSPM/CNAPP, vulnerability management, detection, and monitoring.
• Research emerging cloud attack techniques and apply insights to security architecture.
• Mentor engineers and provide direction on cloud security engineering.

Skills

Go/Golang

Python

Cloud security

CI/CD integration

Infrastructure as Code

Leadership

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Wiz

CI/CD tooling

Job description

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) Software is seeking a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to design and build scalable security capabilities across AWS, Azure, GCP, and other cloud environments. You will architect production-grade tooling in Go/Python, implement secure-by-default patterns, and lead security initiatives across multiple engineering teams.

The role emphasizes expanding preventative controls, automating guardrails, and integrating security into CI/CD workflows, while