Senior Cloud Security Engineer — AWS & GCP Expert

Pegasystems; Providence (RI); On-site; USD 123,000 - 187,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pay + bonus incentive

Employee equity

Job summary

Pegasystems is seeking a Cloud Security Engineer to own and evolve security systems across AWS and GCP, protecting cloud infrastructure, apps, and data. You will partner with Operations and Engineering to implement secure configurations and policies, and you will drive improvements in governance and threat response.

You will lead automation efforts, support incident response, and stay ahead of cloud security trends while collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance security practices.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in cloud engineering, cloud operations, SRE, DevOps, or cloud security.
• 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 core services (EC2, VPC)

Infrastructure as code (Terraform, CF)

Scripting (Python, Ansible, PowerShell

Security monitoring/incident response

Containerized deployments

Kubernetes

Job description

Pegasystems is seeking a Cloud Security Engineer to own and evolve security systems across AWS and GCP, protecting cloud infrastructure, apps, and data. You will partner with Operations and Engineering to implement secure configurations and policies, and you will drive improvements in governance and threat response.

You will lead automation efforts, support incident response, and stay ahead of cloud security trends while collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance security practices.