Sr. Cloud Security Engineer

Title: Sr. Cloud Security Engineer

Location: 5 days onsite Ft. Lauderdale FL area

Type: 6 month contract tohire

Notes

• Design implement and continuously harden secure landing zones tenant baselines and guardrails across Azure AWS Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure including hybrid and multi-cloud connectivity patterns

• Develop and maintain cloud security standards reference patterns and secure-by-default blueprints that apply consistently across providers not just one vendors stack

• Lead security reviews and risk assessments for new cloud workloads migrations and modernization initiatives providing actionable remediation guidance to engineering teams

• 5 years of experience across cloud engineering cloud security and cybersecurity engineering in enterprise environments

• Genuine multi-cloud expertise: expert-level hands-on experience in at least one major cloud (Azure AWS or Google Cloud) and strong working proficiency across the others including exposure to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with the ability to translate security concepts fluently between providers rather than defaulting to a single vendors toolset

• Cloud identity depth across providers: hands-on experience with Microsoft Entra ID AWS IAM / Identity Center Google Cloud IAM and/or OCI IAM federation MFA conditional and context-aware access privileged access and workload/non-human identity

• Practical experience applying AI/ML or large language models to cloud data analysis detection triage or automation

• Experience designing and securing cloud architectures hybrid environments and cloud networking VNets VPCs VCNs VPNs private connectivity firewalls and zero-trust patterns on more than one platform

• Translate cloud security requirements and architecture into deployed automated controls that operate reliably across heterogeneous platforms without creating friction for engineering teams

• Operate as a hands-on engineer who personally builds configures tests and ships high-quality guardrails automation and integrations measuring success in problems solved not tickets closed

• Tools: Microsoft Purview SaaS security posture management Zscaler (CASB/DLP) Trellix Helix Cribl Torq Rapid7 Terraform Bicep CloudFormation OPA CI/CD security (GitHub Actions Azure DevOps)Python PowerShell Terraform HCL Bash and more

Required Skills:

CloudSecurity EngineeringAWSMICROSOFT