Senior Cloud Security Engineer: Zero-Trust & Automation

Mercury; United States; Remote; USD 167,000 - 208,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercury is seeking a Cloud Security Engineer to design security guardrails and automation that scale with the business. You will shape AWS cloud architecture for resilience and least privilege, while collaborating with infrastructure and engineering teams to address security, privacy and compliance across the organization.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in cloud security, strong problem solving, and familiarity with frameworks like NIST CSF, SOC2 and ISO27018.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in cloud security, networking or information security.
• Familiar with security frameworks and privacy regulations (NIST CSF, SOC2, PCI-DSS, ISO27018).
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills under pressure.
• Understanding of information as code (IaC) tooling.
• AWS certifications encouraged.

Responsibilities

• Design cloud security posture and guardrails to enable resilience.
• Automate security controls to minimize threats and risk.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and engineering teams to improve cloud reliability and security.
• Support zero trust initiatives and governance in cloud engineering.
• Address remote access challenges in a remote-first organization.
• Engage with stakeholders across Mercury to address security concerns in the cloud.

Skills

Cloud security

Networking

Information security

GRC

IaC tooling

AWS

Problem solving

Analytical skills

Terraform

CI/CD

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD

Job description

Mercury is seeking a Cloud Security Engineer to design security guardrails and automation that scale with the business. You will shape AWS cloud architecture for resilience and least privilege, while collaborating with infrastructure and engineering teams to address security, privacy and compliance across the organization.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in cloud security, strong problem solving, and familiarity with frameworks like NIST CSF, SOC2 and ISO27018.