Sr. Cloud Security Engineer (Remote)

The Blue Venture Fund; Oak Brook (IL); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

The Blue Venture Fund is seeking a Sr. Cloud Security Engineer to lead hands-on remediation of cloud and infrastructure vulnerabilities and drive secure design across Azure, IaaS, PaaS, and containers. You will collaborate with Compliance, Legal, IT, and Security teams to maintain MSBs and security posture.

The role emphasizes policy development, security tooling, and participation in audit activities to ensure regulatory alignment and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Hands-on remediation of infrastructure and cloud vulnerabilities.
• Experience with CSPM/DSPM tooling and security posture management.
• Experience supporting audits and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Remediate cloud and infrastructure vulnerabilities within SLAs and policy rules.
• Operate CSPM/DSPM tooling and report SLA adherence and findings.
• Prioritize and remediate misconfigurations across Azure subscriptions.
• Apply security controls across cloud-native services, IaaS, PaaS, and containers.
• Maintain secure configurations for firewalls, network security, and compute platforms.

Skills

Cloud security

Vulnerability remediation

CSPM/DSPM tooling

IaC security

CI/CD security

Security policy

Audit support

Tools

Azure

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

The Sr. Cloud Security Engineer (Sr. CSE) is a hybrid cloud and security engineering role responsible for the hands-on remediation of infrastructure and cloud vulnerabilities, ensuring cloud and infrastructure resources maintain compliance with established policies and Minimum-Security Baselines (MSBs), and reporting the organization’s current compliance posture. The Sr. CSE will partner with the Security team to define, author, and maintain cloud security policies – keeping pace with evolving industry trends and regulatory requirements. This role will also actively participate in audit activities, including evidence gathering, reporting, and cross-functional collaboration with Compliance, Legal, and IT teams.

Duties & Responsibilities

Vulnerability Remediation & Security Operations

• Perform hands-on remediation of infrastructure and cloud vulnerabilities, driving issues to closure within established SLAs and policy requirements.

• Operate and administer vulnerability management and cloud security posture management (CSPM/DSPM) tooling – managing scan coverage, remediating findings, and reporting on SLA adherence.

• Identify, prioritize, and remediate cloud misconfigurations and security posture gaps across the organization’s Azure subscriptions and infrastructure.

• Implement and validate security controls across cloud-native services, IaaS, PaaS, and container-based workloads.

• Maintain and enforce secure configurations across firewalls, network security components, application delivery infrastructure, and compute platforms in partnership with the Security Team.

• When needed, assist with privileged credential hygiene, certificate lifecycle, and secrets governance across the environment.

• Support the hardening of Windows and Linux server environments through configuration management and compliance-as-code practices.

• Maintain awareness of known and emerging vulnerabilities across the full technology stack – cloud services, OS platforms, network components, and application runtimes.

Compliance, Policy & Reporting

• Monitor and report the organization’s compliance posture against established security policies, baselines, and regulatory frameworks.

• Partner with the Security team to define, author, and maintain cloud and infrastructure security policies – keeping pace with evolving industry trends and regulatory requirements.

• Review and update existing policies on a regular cadence to reflect changes in the cloud environment and threat landscape.

• Produce accurate, timely compliance posture reports for leadership – covering baseline adherence, vulnerability SLA performance, and remediation progress.

• Coordinate and assist in evidence collection and audit maintenance for internal and external organizational assessments, including regulatory audits and third-party risk reviews.

• Respond to findings from audits, security questionnaires, and internal/external scanning or penetration testing.

CI/CD Pipeline & Infrastructure Security

• Partner with Software Engineering and App Security teams to embed security into CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows – including secret scanning, least-privilege deployment identities, and secrets management integration.

• Review and advise on Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) implementations from a security perspective, ensuring patterns align with security baselines and organizational standards.

• Support secure configuration management across server and cloud environments.

• Ensure PKI and certificate management practices are maintained across the environment – including TLS/SSL lifecycle, renewal processes, and certificate inventory.

Technical Leadership & Mentorship

• Serve as an informal technical leader and security subject matter expert across Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, and adjacent teams.

• Mentor engineers on security best practices, secure design patterns, and compliance requirements – elevating security competency across the department without direct people management responsibilities.

• Contribute to architecture and design reviews, providing a security lens on cloud platform decisions in partnership with the Cloud Architect.

Cross-Team Collaboration

• Cloud Engineering & Platform Engineering – consult on secure architecture, container platform hardening, network segmentation, and pipeline security practices.

• Identity & Access Management (IAM) – partner on identity governance, privileged access management, and access control policy enforcement.

• Incident Response / Vulnerability Management – collaborate with the Security Detection & Response team on vulnerability prioritization, SLA tracking, remediation coordination, and incident response activities.

• Audits & Assessments – provide technical support for evidence gathering, compliance posture reporting, and audit response.

• Application Development Teams – consult on security requirements for cloud-native application platforms, ensuring developer environments are built securely from the ground up.

Additional Requirements

Candidates who progress beyond the initial screening will be required to complete a formal technical assessment to validate coding proficiency and technical competency.