Senior Cloud Security Engineer

About this role

Overview:

This role offers a rare chance to build cloud security and IAM maturity programs from the ground up rather than caretake an existing one, with the Senior Cloud Security Engineer owning compliance, identity strategy, and security automation across both AWS and Azure as a senior individual contributor. Success here means shaping the roadmap leadership acts on, not just executing someone else's plan, with visible influence across Cloud Engineering, Information Security, and executive stakeholders within the first 90 days.

OUR COMPANY

Our company operates cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure at a scale where security and identity management directly affect how fast the business can move. We invest in strong technical foundations, infrastructure as code, automated compliance, and mature access governance, because we would rather build guardrails once than firefight forever. This role sits at the center of that investment, partnering closely with Cloud Operations and Engineering to keep security built in rather than bolted on.

Responsibilities:

KEY PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES (FIRST 12 MONTHS)

1: Cloud Security Framework Compliance (First 90 Days, Ongoing Through Year One)

Outcome: Complete an assessment of current security framework compliance across AWS and Azure in the first 30 days, deliver a prioritized remediation roadmap by day 90, and keep compliance scores improving through the first 6 months and beyond.

Impact: Closes framework gaps before they surface as audit or compliance findings, and gives leadership a clear, prioritized view of security posture instead of an ad hoc issue list.

How: By running structured assessments against framework benchmarks, maintaining security baselines and hardening guides, and translating framework requirements into Terraform modules and IaC guardrails that get enforced automatically.

IAM Maturity Roadmap (First 90 Days, Phase 1 By 6 Months)

Outcome: Map the current state of IAM a...