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About the role
The Cloud Security Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and managing security controls across the organization’s cloud environments. The role ensures secure architectures, proactive threat detection, and continuous compliance across AWS, Azure, GCP, and cloud-native technologies.
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Responsibilities
- Design and implement secure cloud architectures for IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Implement Zero Trust principles, network segmentation, and secure landing zones.
- Define and enforce cloud security baselines, hardening standards, and configuration policies.
- Manage cloud-native security tools (AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, Azure Defender, GCP Security Command Center).
- Monitor and remediate misconfigurations using CSPM and CIEM solutions.
- Conduct continuous security assessments and vulnerability remediation on cloud assets.
- Support DevOps pipelines by integrating security tools (SAST and DAST).
- Implement and manage identity controls such as IAM, RBAC, MFA, and conditional access policies.
- Review and enforce least privilege access for users, applications, and services.
- Analyze cloud-specific security alerts, investigate suspicious activities, and respond to incidents.
- Support threat hunting and logging activities using SIEM/SOAR platforms.
- Develop runbooks and playbooks for cloud-related incidents.
- Ensure cloud environments meet internal security policies, regulatory requirements, and frameworks such as ISO 27001, PCI DSS, CIS Benchmarks, NIST CSF.
- Conduct periodic cloud compliance audits and provide remediation guidance.
- Create and maintain security documentation including architecture diagrams, SOPs, and hardening guides.
- Work closely with DevOps, Networking, Infrastructure, and other teams to ensure secure deployment of cloud workloads.
- Train and guide technical teams on cloud security best practices.
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