Senior Security Engineer – Cloud & Zero-Trust

Kforce Inc; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Kforce Inc in Boston, MA is seeking a hands-on Senior Security Engineer to join a small, high-impact engineering team focused on building and deploying enterprise security solutions across cloud, identity, data, and infrastructure environments.

The role emphasizes designing, implementing, automating, and improving security capabilities across AWS and Azure, using Terraform, Python, APIs, and infrastructure-as-code principles.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on security engineering experience.
• Experience securing cloud environments (AWS preferred; Azure valued).
• Experience implementing enterprise security technologies in production.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy security solutions across cloud, identity, endpoint, email, and network environments.
• Engineer and automate security controls across AWS and Azure.
• Build scalable security capabilities using Terraform, Python, APIs, and infrastructure-as-code principles.
• Partner with infrastructure, platform, and engineering teams to improve enterprise security posture.
• Drive initiatives around Zero Trust, cloud-native security, segmentation, secure access, and modern authentication.
• Support evaluation and implementation of emerging technologies related to AI, data security, and enterprise security architecture.
• Support technical investigations and security improvement initiatives where needed.
• Evaluate existing environments, identify security gaps, and implement practical solutions at scale.

Skills

Cloud security

Security automation

Python scripting

Terraform

Identity & access management

Network security

Endpoint security

Tools

AWS

Azure

Job description

Kforce Inc in Boston, MA is seeking a hands-on Senior Security Engineer to join a small, high-impact engineering team focused on building and deploying enterprise security solutions across cloud, identity, data, and infrastructure environments.

The role emphasizes designing, implementing, automating, and improving security capabilities across AWS and Azure, using Terraform, Python, APIs, and infrastructure-as-code principles.