Position

Senior Cloud Security Engineer

Posted

08-Aug-2025

Location

Columbia, South Carolina

Category

Other

Remote Friendly

Hybrid

Work Type

Contract

Reference

Salary Range

225972

Compensation: Competitive; Open to negotiation based on experience

Hybrid Details: Columbia, SC area – onsite 2 days/week
Duration: 12 months to start

Job Description
The Senior Cloud Security Engineer will collaborate with Product Owners, Applications Owners, Network and Security teams to design and deliver optimal solutions for large-scale app and infrastructure cloud solutions. Candidates should possess proficiency in both public and hybrid cloud models. Exceptional consulting skills and the ability to clearly derive desired states from customer requests are essential. The role also requires the ability to work with delivery teams. Importantly, this role is hands-on in delivery, requiring active involvement in the implementation and execution of security solutions. This is not a developer role.


Daily Duties / Responsibilities:

  • Design and deploy highly available, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure and apps with a focus on AWS and Azure Cloud.
  • Design and develop automation to build cloud security accelerators and IP.
  • Experience with Security Operations teams to build and maintain SIEM, SOAR and XDR technology.
  • Analyze and resolve configuration issues in development, test, and production environments.
  • Familiar with major security compliance frameworks and building effective monitoring, logging, and auditing of production systems to ensure compliance with mandated compliance policies (e.g., NIST, HIPAA, PII, SOX, PCI, CMMC, CUI, etc.).
  • Experience implementing secure (zero trust) infrastructure in cloud.
  • Security experience with state and local government customers
  • Open to Travel as needed to customer engagements

Required Skills (In Order of Importance):
  • 5 to 10 Years' Experience in Information Security and Engineering
  • Experience Designing and Maintaining Infrastructure in Aws/Azure
  • Cloud Security Design, Operations, And Automation Experience
  • Excellent Communication Skills, Both Written and Verbal
  • Documentation Of Security Tools, Deployment Configuration, Incident Reports, Etc.

Preferred Skills (In Order of Importance):
  • Experience Deploying, Configuring and Maintaining Cloud VM Series Palo Alto Firewalls in AWS and AZURE
  • Prisma Cloud
  • FORESCOUT
  • Cisco Umbrella
  • Palo Alto Firewalls
  • F5 Load Balancing/Firewall


REQUIRED EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS: 
  • Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent Experience.
  • Must Hold AWS or AZURE Certification     

PREFERRED CERTIFICATIONS: CISSP - CERTIFIED INFORMATION SYSTEMS SECURITY PROFESSIONAL SC100 - MICROSOFT CYBERSECURITY ARCHITECT
AWS CERTIFIED CLOUD SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT, PRISMA CERTIFIED CLOUD SECURITY ENGINEER, PCNSA, PCNSE


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Talent Groups is an equal opportunity employer. Our goal is to promote an environment that helps our employees and clients appreciate the benefits that diversity provides.

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Recruiter Name: Ashish Mahender Rang

Recruiter Email:  ashish.r@talentgroups.com

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