Senior Cloud Security & IaC Engineer (Hybrid)

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC; San Antonio (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Schedule

6-Month Contract

W2 Only

Medical Insurance

Dental Benefits

Vision Benefits

Paid Time Off (PTO)

401(k)

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC is seeking a Technology and Data Engineer 5 for a hybrid role in San Antonio, TX. The position emphasizes cloud security, IaC governance, and integrating security into deployment pipelines.

The candidate will work with cloud, platform, and security teams to automate controls, improve policy compliance, and scale cloud security capabilities across enterprise environments. Strong scripting and collaboration skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of engineering experience or equivalent demonstrated over multiple domains.
• 8+ years in AppSec/Cloud Security/DevSecOps with hands-on Terraform and Kubernetes security.
• Experience operating Wiz or similar IaC security tools in CI/CD.
• Policy as Code skills using OPA/Rego or equivalent policy tuning.
• Strong CI/CD knowledge and Git workflow experience.
• Excellent communication to support dev teams and drive remediation.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and tune custom IaC rules in Rego/OPA to extend security coverage.
• Build automated regression tests using Terraform plans and Kubernetes manifests.
• Perform pipeline health checks and investigate failed scans.
• Monitor platform availability and scanning effectiveness to minimize disruption.
• Coordinate with vendors and internal teams on defects and roadmaps.
• Deliver remediation guidance and developer adoption support.
• Publish security artifacts for traceability and compliance reporting.
• Integrate Wiz DevOps extensions and security gates into CI/CD.
• Support multiple CI/CD platforms (GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Jenkins).

Skills

Engineering experience

AppSec

DevSecOps

Terraform

Kubernetes

OPA/Rego

CI/CD

Git workflow

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Wiz

OPA

Job description

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC is seeking a Technology and Data Engineer 5 for a hybrid role in San Antonio, TX. The position emphasizes cloud security, IaC governance, and integrating security into deployment pipelines.

The candidate will work with cloud, platform, and security teams to automate controls, improve policy compliance, and scale cloud security capabilities across enterprise environments. Strong scripting and collaboration skills are essential.