Senior Cloud Security & IaC Engineer (Hybrid)

Motion Recruitment; Minneapolis (MN); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Benefits

Vision Benefits

Paid Time Off (PTO)

401(k)

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Technology and Data Engineer 5 for a hybrid role in Minneapolis, MN. The candidate will advance security practices across cloud infrastructure by integrating security controls into deployment processes and IaC workflows.

Responsibilities include designing custom IaC rules, building regression tests, and coordinating with DevOps teams to improve risk visibility and remediation.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of engineering experience or equivalent demonstrated through multiple channels.
• 8+ years in AppSec/Cloud Security/DevSecOps with Terraform and Kubernetes security.
• Practical experience operating Wiz for IaC in CI/CD environments.
• Policy as Code skills using OPA/Rego or equivalent rule tuning experience.
• Strong CI/CD knowledge and Git workflow experience.
• Excellent communication skills to support development teams and remediation.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and tune custom IaC rules in Rego/OPA for extended security coverage.
• Build automated regression tests using Terraform plans, Kubernetes manifests, and sample repos.
• Perform pipeline health checks and investigate failed security scans.
• Monitor platform availability and scanning effectiveness to minimize disruption.
• Validate finding severity and remove duplicates or inaccuracies.
• Route security issues to appropriate service and application owners.
• Tune policy-as-code controls to enterprise standards and governance.
• Integrate Wiz CLI into CI/CD workflows and configure security gates.
• Publish security artifacts for traceability and compliance reporting.
• Deliver remediation guidance and support developer adoption.

Skills

AppSec

DevSecOps

Policy as Code

CI/CD

Git workflows

Communication skills

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Wiz

OPA/Rego

Job description

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Technology and Data Engineer 5 for a hybrid role in Minneapolis, MN. The candidate will advance security practices across cloud infrastructure by integrating security controls into deployment processes and IaC workflows.

Responsibilities include designing custom IaC rules, building regression tests, and coordinating with DevOps teams to improve risk visibility and remediation.