Senior Cloud Security Engineer — Multi-Cloud & Kubernetes

TenX Recruiting; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Our client seeks a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to own security of production and cloud environments across AWS and Azure, with a hands-on, high-ownership mindset.

You’ll drive security posture, runtime protection for Kubernetes, and secure infrastructure design in collaboration with engineering. 8+ years in security engineering and strong IaC, CSPM, and RBAC experience are required.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in security engineering with cloud focus.
• Hands-on with multi-cloud (AWS and Azure) and Kubernetes.
• Strong IaC, cloud networking, and IAM in cloud.
• Experience with CSPM and runtime security tooling.
• Ability to own cloud security independently and collaborate with engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own security posture of production and cloud infra (AWS and Azure).
• Provide runtime security for Kubernetes from deployment to detection.
• Partner with engineering on secure infra architecture and secure design of production environments.
• Lead cloud security posture management end to end: triage, prioritization, remediation.
• Define and drive cloud infrastructure security standards: baseline configurations, IaC security, key/secrets management.
• Drive fine-grained, role-based access to production in partnership with IT.
• Feed infrastructure findings into vulnerability management and risk reporting.

Skills

Cloud security

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as code

CSPM tooling

Runtime security

RBAC

Collaboration with engineers

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Our client seeks a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to own security of production and cloud environments across AWS and Azure, with a hands-on, high-ownership mindset.

You’ll drive security posture, runtime protection for Kubernetes, and secure infrastructure design in collaboration with engineering. 8+ years in security engineering and strong IaC, CSPM, and RBAC experience are required.