Senior Cloud Security Engineer - hybrid Richmond, VA

Novalink Solutions; Richmond (VA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Novalink Solutions seeks a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to lead secure cloud design, deployment, and governance for the Virginia-based environment. The role emphasizes SEC530 alignment, Zero Trust, and risk-based security in production.

The candidate will advance cloud security architecture, IAM, network security, monitoring, and incident response while collaborating with Cloud, Network, and Security Operations teams in a hybrid Richmond setting.

Qualifications

• Extensive enterprise cloud security experience.
• Hands-on Azure migration and security controls (SEC530).
• Strong risk-based cloud security engineering and architecture.
• Ability to lead security initiatives across multiple teams.
• Experience with SIEM, log analytics, and threat detection.

Responsibilities

• Identify cloud security vulnerabilities and track remediation.
• Lead complex cloud security initiatives and design secure cloud architecture.
• Implement security gates in deployment pipelines.
• Explain complex security risks to non-technical stakeholders.
• Monitor security events and coordinate incident response with SOC.
• Review NSG rules and enforce security standards.

Skills

Cloud security

Azure cloud

Security operations

Incident response

Vulnerability management

Network security

SOC collaboration

Threat intelligence

Tools

Nessus

Tenable

Splunk

Microsoft Sentinel

CNAPP

Azure Monitor

Azure Firewall

Azure WAF

Job description

Senior Cloud Security Engineer - hybrid Richmond, VA

Richmond, United States | Posted on 10/19/2026

• Actual Job Title 813222 - VDOT Senior Cloud Security Engineer
• Job Type FT Contract
• Date Opened 10/19/2026
• Country United States
• Assigned Recruiter(s) Mohammed Nazer
• Number of Positions 1

Job Description

VDOT is seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Security Engineer (Sr CSE) to implement and support the agency’s cloud and computing infrastructure. The Senior Cloud Security Engineer will serve as a subject matter expert supporting VDOT’s enterprise Azure migration, responsible for architecting, implementing, and securing cloud environments in alignment with SEC530 principles, Zero Trust, and enterprise compliance frameworks.

The Senior Cloud Security Engineer will be responsible for assisting in the design, implementation, securing, monitoring, and the continuous improvement of VDOT’s cloud infrastructure and services across the enterprise. The position provides senior-level technical leadership for cloud security architecture, identity and access management, network security, security monitoring, vulnerability management, incident response, and cloud governance.

The Senior Cloud Security Engineer works closely with Cloud Engineering, Network Engineering, Security Operations, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, Application Development, DevOps, Risk Management, and IT leadership to ensure cloud environments are secure, resilient, compliant, and aligned with enterprise security standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify cloud security vulnerabilities, assess risk based on business impact, prioritize remediation, track remediation activities, and validate corrective actions
• Lead complex cloud security initiatives and provide technical directions to engineers. Also assist in the design of secure cloud architecture for complex enterprise environments
• Influence architecture and security decisions and prevent insecure configurations from reaching production and implement security gates within deployment pipelines.
• Explain complex security risks to non-technical stakeholders
• Assess cloud security risks and security gaps and recommend appropriate remediations. Create and maintain security documentation and evidence as well as support audits and assessments.
• Review proposed cloud solutions for security risk and define appropriate security and compensation controls.
• Will develop Azure policies to enforce standardization and compliance with enterprise requirements, as well as creating Azure Automation runbooks to support incident response workflows.
• Monitor security events using SIEM technologies and work with VDOT’s SOC team to coordinate incident response activities.
• Identifies and diagnoses system problems and threats by using system logs, line monitors, SIEM, diagnostic software, and test equipment.
• Lead investigation and containment of cloud security incidents.
• Review firewall and NSG rule requests and ensure compliance with security standards.
• Must have the ability to provide documentation, architecture topology diagrams, IP schemes and access controls when required.
• Must have the ability to work independently on assigned projects.

Requirements

• Skill
• Required / Desired
• Amount
• of Experience
• Enterprise Cloud Experience
  Required
  8
  Years
  
• Enterprise Cloud Security Experience
  Required
  5
  Years
  
• Candidate must be highly experienced as a cloud security professional with strong hands-on expertise in cloud infrastructure and cloud engineering
  Required
  
• Candidatte must be highly experienced in cybersecurity, networking, identity, security operations, and have a deep cloud engineering competency
  Required
  
• Candidate must have in-depth experience moving between strategic architecture and hands-on engineering and identifying security risks
  Required
  
• Candidate must have in-depth experience designing practical solutions, implementing controls, and working with infrastructure teams
  Required
  
• Candidate musth have in-depth experience working with application teams to continuously improve the organization's cloud security posture
  Required
  
• Candidate must have experience setting up Network Security Groups (NSGs), resource manager and management groups, monitor and log analytics,
  Required
  
• Candidate must have experience setting up Azure Firewall, Azure WAF, Azure Monitor, Application Gateways, virtual networks and network segmentation.
  Required
  
• Candidate must have experiences in: Incident response, Security investigations, Log analysis, Threat intelligence, Security monitoring, IOC analysis
  Required
  
• Candidate must have experiences coordinating during cyber incidents
  Required
  
• Candidate must have experience in vulnerability management, remediation tracking, vulnerability scanning tools (e.g. Nessus, Tenable, Defender)
  Required
  
• Candidate must have experience securing enterprise cloud environments and implementing security controls in production environments
  Required
  
• Candidate must have experience with the SIEM products (e.g. Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, CNAPP),
  Required
  
• Candidate must have experience with log management, security analytics, SOC integration, Threat detection, and Threat hunting
  Required
  
• Candidate must also have hands on expertise validating indexer parsers, leveraging Splunk Query Language for monitoring and data analysis.
  Required
  
• Candidate must have experience collaborating with the security governance team and application leads to implement enterprise log management standards.
  Required
  
• Candidate must have experience with; SEC530, CIS Benchmarks, NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, Zero Trust principles
  Required
  
• Candidate must have experience in cloud vulnerability management, remediation tracking, and risk assessment and prioritization
  Required
  
• Candidate must have experience in cloud risk assessment and prioritization, attack surface management, and Cloud Security Posture Management (VSPM)
  Required
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