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About the role
The Senior Cloud Security Engineer is a hands-on technical lead responsible for designing, implementing, and improving security across the organization’s Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments. This role partners with cloud platform, infrastructure, application, identity, and security operations teams to build secure cloud foundations, protect workloads and data, and make security controls repeatable through automation. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 7+ of experience in cloud security, cloud engineering, infrastructure security, security engineering, or a closely related discipline
- Demonstrated hands-on security engineering experience with both Microsoft Azure and AWS
- Strong understanding of cloud identity and access management, including Azure RBAC, Microsoft Entra ID, AWS IAM, federation, privileged access, and workload identities
- Experience designing or securing cloud networking, including segmentation, private connectivity, firewalls, routing, DNS, and internet exposure controls
- Experience securing cloud compute, storage, databases, containers, Kubernetes, and/or serverless workloads
More about this role
The Senior Cloud Security Engineer is a hands-on technical lead responsible for designing, implementing, and improving security across the organization’s Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments. This role partners with cloud platform, infrastructure, application, identity, and security operations teams to build secure cloud foundations, protect workloads and data, and make security controls repeatable through automation.
The ideal candidate combines deep practical knowledge of Azure and AWS security services with strong skills in cloud architecture, identity and access management, network security, detection and response, and infrastructure as code. Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a plus.
· Design and implement secure architectures for Azure and AWS environments, including landing zones, accounts and subscriptions, networking, shared services, and workload environments.
· Establish cloud security reference architectures, patterns, guardrails, and configuration standards that support secure, reliable, and scalable services.
· Review cloud designs and changes for security risks, recommending pragmatic mitigations that fit business and...
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