Cloud Security/Penetration Test Engineer
Company: Appspace
Location: Dallas, Texas, United States Remote
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-05-30
About this role
- We are seeking a highly skilled Cloud Security Engineer to join our dynamic team. This is a crucial customer-facing role where you will be instrumental in designing, implementing secure cloud configurations, manual web application testing and securing complex cloud environments for our clients across Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services (AWS), with a strong emphasis on GCP. A fundamental part of your role will be demonstrating your ability to manually penetration test web applications
- You will leverage your deep expertise in SaaS security, network security, and compliance to provide strategic guidance and hands-on support, ensuring our clients’ cloud infrastructures are robust, resilient, and compliant with industry standards
- Perform manual penetration testing activities on Web Applications and Mobile Applications using black-box testing tools, in-depth penetration test (using shell scripts and manual testing) techniques, DAST & SAST tools. The candidate should be highly experienced with black box, gray box and white box testing techniques along with red teaming skills
- Understand the application architectural components, business purpose of the application and code at high level. The resource will be responsible for assisting in architecting secure coding practices
- Web Application: Highly familiar with OWASP Top 10 and the ASVS. You will be the Subject Matter Expert within the organization to demonstrate OWASP Top 10 findings and provide resolution recommendations
- Cloud Security Operations: Design, implement, and optimize robust cloud security architectures to enhance, build, monitor and address all security alerts from our SIEM and other security systems. This is an operational role whereby you will be available M-F 8am-5pm EDT and on-call shifts on evenings and weekends
- Network Security Expertise: Your network security and cloud security expertise will be required to respond to customer questionnaires, customer calls ...