Senior Cloud Security Engineer - AWS & GCP, Equity

Pegasystems; Manchester (NH); On-site; USD 123,000 - 187,000; Full time

Job summary

Pega’s Cloud Security Engineering team protects our cloud infrastructure, applications, and data across AWS and GCP. You will own and deliver improvements for security systems, collaborate with stakeholders, and support incident response and governance initiatives.

In this role, you will work with Cloud Operations and Engineering to implement secure configurations, automate tasks, and advance security controls across multiple cloud providers, while staying ahead of evolving threats and risks.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in cloud engineering, cloud operations, SRE, or DevOps, with cloud security focus.
• Strong understanding of cloud security concepts and controls.
• Experience automating and securing Linux systems and cloud‑based infrastructure (SELinux, FIPS).
• Experience with security monitoring, alerting, or incident response (Splunk, Chronicle, CrowdStrike).
• Experience with containerized deployments.

Responsibilities

• Own the implementation and maintenance of critical cloud security systems and supporting infrastructure.
• Automate manual system administration and infrastructure tasks.
• Contribute to the strategic direction of security controls across multiple cloud providers.
• Assist with vulnerability management, remediation tracking, and risk mitigation efforts.
• Partner with Cloud Operations and Engineering teams to provide guidance on secure configurations and best practices.
• Help maintain and improve security policies, standards, and procedures.
• Stay current on emerging cloud security threats and trends.

Skills

AWS

Terraform/CloudFormation

Scripting (Python/PowerShell/Ansible)

DevOps/SRE mindset

Communication

Team collaboration

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Splunk

Chronicle

CrowdStrike

Kubernetes

Job description

Pega’s Cloud Security Engineering team protects our cloud infrastructure, applications, and data across AWS and GCP. You will own and deliver improvements for security systems, collaborate with stakeholders, and support incident response and governance initiatives.

In this role, you will work with Cloud Operations and Engineering to implement secure configurations, automate tasks, and advance security controls across multiple cloud providers, while staying ahead of evolving threats and risks.