Senior Cloud Infra Security Engineer

Senior Cloud Infra Security Consultant

Location: US Bay Area San Jose, CA

Role Overview: We are seeking a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to support our cloud platform initiatives, automation efforts, and operational reliability across AWS and Azure environments. This role blends cloud engineering, infrastructure reliability, automation development, and security-minded platform design. The engineer should be capable of stabilizing cloud workloads, optimizing operational maturity, and building scalable patterns that improve availability and resilience.

Key Responsibilities

• Cloud Architecture Platform Engineering
• Design, deploy, and enhance scalable infrastructure services across AWS and Azure.
• Improve posture, configuration hygiene, and guardrail enforcement at the platform level.
• Partner with platform and security teams to create resilient cloud architectures.

• Infrastructure Reliability Operations
• Stabilize cloud infrastructure services by improving uptime, observability, and incident recovery.
• Lead troubleshooting of operational failures, configuration drift, and deployment instability.
• Automate operational workflows to minimize recurring issues and manual intervention.

• Automation, Tooling CI/CD Enablement
• Build automation for cloud provisioning, configuration validation, and remediation workflows.
• Improve CI/CD security and deployment efficiency through pipelines, controls, and tooling.
• Develop reusable infrastructure modules to accelerate engineering velocity.

• Systems, Identity Control Integration
• Integrate cloud identity, logging, telemetry, and monitoring into standardized platform patterns.
• Provide cross-team guidance on secure workload enablement and operational best practices.
• Improve cloud visibility and ensure system state reflects intended configurations.

• Cross-Team Enablement Advisory
• Work closely with platform, detection, IAM, and compliance teams.
• Provide architectural input to application and engineering teams adopting cloud services.
• Share insights related to risk reduction, optimization, and operational scaling.

Required Skills

Experience 810+ years of experience in cloud or infrastructure engineering roles. Strong proficiency with AWS and/or Azure architecture, services, networking, and IAM concepts. Hands-on experience: Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, Pulumi, etc.) Automation tooling (Python, PowerShell, Go, etc.) CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, etc.) Proven ability to diagnose and improve reliability issues, scaling constraints, or deployment failures.

Preferred Skills

Background in reliability engineering, SRE, cloud security, or operational automation. Experience with logging, monitoring, and observability platforms. Familiarity with multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud architectural design patterns. Experience integrating cloud controls with platform enablement workflows.

Preferred / Nice-to-Have Skills

Background in reliability engineering, SRE, cloud security, or operational automation. Experience with logging, monitoring, and observability platforms. Familiarity with multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud architectural design patterns. Container and Kubernetes Experience (Nice to Have / Optional): Operating Kubernetes clusters (EKS/AKS/GKE) or supporting containerized workloads Understanding of orchestration fundamentals, cluster lifecycle, and workload identity Exposure to Helm, container registries, admission controls, or cloud-native observability stacks.

The pay range for this role is *** - **** per annum including any bonuses or variable pay. *** also offers benefits like medical, vision, dental, life, disability insurance and paid time off (including holidays, parental leave, and sick leave, as required by law). Ask our recruiters for more details on our Benefits package. The exact offer terms will depend on the skill level, educational qualifications, experience and location of the candidate.

Government Careers

Show more