Senior Cloud Security Engineer - Build Secure Cloud

International Business Machines Corporation; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Software is seeking a Senior Cloud Security Engineer in Austin, TX to architect and implement scalable security solutions across AWS, Azure, and other clouds. You will build tooling with Go/Python, craft IaC guardrails with Terraform, and lead security initiatives across multiple teams to enable secure-by-default deployments.

The role emphasizes IAM, networking, Kubernetes, and workload protection, with a strong focus on automating security controls within CI/CD and development workflows.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background in infrastructure, platform, cloud, or security engineering.
• Hands-on cloud security with AWS and/or Azure, including IAM, networking, compute/workloads, containers/Kubernetes.
• Infrastructure as Code experience, preferably Terraform.
• Experience integrating security into CI/CD and engineering workflows.
• Ability to lead complex cloud security initiatives across multiple teams.
• Knowledge of Zero Trust architecture and compliance frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of cloud security architecture and engineering solutions across AWS, Azure, GCP, and other cloud environments.
• Architect and build production-quality security tooling and automation using Go/Golang and Python, integrating security directly into infrastructure and engineering workflows.
• Design preventative security controls and automated guardrails using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC), enabling secure-by-default cloud deployments.
• Establish scalable security patterns across IAM, cloud networking, workload identity, containers/Kubernetes, secrets management, PKI, and workload protection.
• Design and integrate security controls into CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure provisioning, and developer workflows, shifting security earlier into the engineering lifecycle.
• Provide technical leadership for complex cloud security initiatives, independently driving solutions from architecture and design through implementation and operationalization.
• Identify systemic cloud security risks and translate them into reusable engineering patterns, automation, detections, and preventative controls rather than relying solely on manual remediation.
• Partner with platform, infrastructure, product, and security engineering teams to conduct architecture reviews and influence the design of secure cloud services.
• Improve CSPM/CNAPP, vulnerability management, detection, and cloud security monitoring capabilities and translate findings into engineering improvements.
• Research emerging cloud attack techniques and technologies and apply those insights to evolving cloud security architecture.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical direction on cloud security engineering, automation, and secure infrastructure design.

Skills

Cloud security

Go/Golang

Python

Terraform

CI/CD security

Linux

Leadership

Architecture

Workload identity

Kubernetes

Multi-cloud

Policy as code

Zero Trust

Identity security

Compliance

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Terraform

Go/Golang

Python

Kubernetes

Job description

IBM Software is seeking a Senior Cloud Security Engineer in Austin, TX to architect and implement scalable security solutions across AWS, Azure, and other clouds. You will build tooling with Go/Python, craft IaC guardrails with Terraform, and lead security initiatives across multiple teams to enable secure-by-default deployments.

The role emphasizes IAM, networking, Kubernetes, and workload protection, with a strong focus on automating security controls within CI/CD and development workflows.