Cloud Security Engineer

Your Role as a Cloud Security Engineer:

We are seeking a highly skilled Cloud Security Engineer to join our dynamic team. This is a crucial customer-facing role where you will be instrumental in designing, implementing secure cloud configurations, manual web application testing and securing complex cloud environments for our clients across Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services (AWS), with a strong emphasis on GCP. A fundamental part of your role will be demonstrating your ability to manually penetration test web applications.

You will leverage your deep expertise in SaaS security, network security, and compliance to provide strategic guidance and hands-on support, ensuring our clients' cloud infrastructures are robust, resilient, and compliant with industry standards.

What You'll Do:

• Perform manual penetration testing activities on Web Applications and Mobile Applications using black-box testing tools, in-depth penetration test (using shell scripts and manual testing) techniques, DAST & SAST tools. The candidate should be highly experienced with black box, gray box and white box testing techniques along with red teaming skills
• Understand the application architectural components, business purpose of the application and code at high level. The resource will be responsible for assisting in architecting secure coding practices.
• Web Application: Highly familiar with OWASP Top 10 and the ASVS. You will be the Subject Matter Expert within the organization to demonstrate OWASP Top 10 findings and provide resolution recommendations.
• Cloud Security Operations: Design, implement, and optimize robust cloud security architectures to enhance, build, monitor and address all security alerts from our SIEM and other security systems. This is an operational role whereby you will be available M-F 8am-5pm EDT and on-call shifts on evenings and weekends.
• Network Security Expertise: Your network security and cloud security expertise will be required to respond to customer questionnaires, customer calls and create artifacts including network diagrams, architecture diagram, data flow diagrams and other artifacts to support customer requests. Strong written skills will be required here and attention to detail.
• Firewall & WAF Management: Configure, manage, and troubleshoot cloud-native firewalls (e.g., GCP Cloud Firewall, Azure Firewall, AWS Security Groups/NACLs) and Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) to protect web applications from common vulnerabilities and attacks. The candidate will demonstrate past hands-on network experience in managing complex layer-4 to layer-7 rules.
• SIEM Integration & Optimization: As a Level-2 Security Operations support team member, you will review all security alerts and resolve these alerts in a timely manner. You will work with our current Security Operations team to expand on our current alerting and reporting capabilities to enhance visibility across our attack surface. Powershell or similar scripting skills will be required.
• SaaS Security Best Practices: Provide expert guidance on securing SaaS applications, including identity and access management (IAM), data encryption, API security, and secure configuration baselines. You will be responsible for leading and managing all firewall reviews, access reviews, system reviews and risk assessments.
• Compliance & Governance: Lead and contribute to compliance initiatives, ensuring cloud environments adhere to industry regulations and frameworks such as GDPR, SOC 2, ISO 27001, CMMC and CSA STAR. Conduct security assessments and gap analyses.
• Customer Engagement & Presentation: Act as a trusted advisor to clients, effectively communicating complex technical security concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Deliver engaging presentations, attend client workshops, and build strong client relationships.
• Incident Response & Remediation: Support incident response activities by providing expert analysis and remediation strategies for cloud security incidents. This will extend to leading Incident Response Plan initiatives and creating documentation for all parties to follow specific plans.
• Vulnerability Management and Penetration Testing: Responsible for running the comprehensive vulnerability management and penetration testing program. The candidate will be responsible for reviewing, interpreting and advising operations teams on how best to remediate identified vulnerabilities and work with the operations to bring all findings to a close. The candidate will be responsible for working with our software development teams to review, manage and collaborate on the remediation of open OWASP findings.
• Stay Ahead of the Curve: Continuously research and evaluate emerging cloud security threats, technologies, and best practices.

What You Bring:

• 10+ years of progressive experience in web application penetration testing, cybersecurity, with at least 4+ years focused on cloud security engineering.
• Strong organizational, administrative, project management and communication skills will be required to manage the overall security program.
• Deep hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) security services and best practices is essential and managing cloud security alerts in our SIEM.
• Strong practical experience with Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) security services.
• Proven expertise in securing SaaS applications and understanding of common SaaS security challenges.
• Extensive experience with scripting skills, network security principles and implementation in cloud environments.
• Demonstrable experience with firewall management (cloud-native and third-party) and Web Application Firewalls (WAFs).
• Hands-on experience with SIEM platforms (e.g., Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Google Chronicle Security Operations, Datadog, etc) including sink creations, log ingestion, rule creation, and dashboarding.
• Strong understanding of cloud identity and access management (IAM) principles and best practices across multi-cloud.
• Solid knowledge of compliance frameworks and regulations (e.g., GDPR, SOC 2, ISO 27001, CMMC).
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate complex security concepts clearly and concisely to diverse audiences.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced, client-facing environment.
• Problem-solving mindset with a strong attention to detail.
• CISSP is required. Azure and Google certifications are highly desirable.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Risk Management, Cyber Security, or related field
• 5+ years of experience in web application penetration testing
• 5+ years in cloud or network penetration testing
• 4+ years of experience managing, tracking and supporting a security program including compliance, risk management, security operations, security engineering and cloud security initiatives.
• 4+ years of experience securing, configuring and supporting cloud environments (Azure and GCP)
• 4+ years of experience supporting a security operations center, managing security alerts, configuring SIEMs and, creating custom alerts using PowerShell, Python or Bash scripts
• Provide guidance on security vulnerabilities, responding to security questionnaires, working with software engineering teams on OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, secure coding practices, and threat modeling.
• Microsoft certifications a plus
• Security Certifications: CISSP, GWAPT, OSWA or OSCP are required, CISM desirable and other certifications would be a plus.

Bonus Points If You Have:

• Relevant industry certifications like OSWE or Cloud Provider Certifications (e.g., Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer, Azure Security Engineer Associate, AWS Certified Security – Specialty, CCSP).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM templates) for security automation.
• Scripting skills (e.g., Python, PowerShell, Bash).
• Experience with container security (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of DevSecOps principles and practices.

The Perks of Working for Appspace:

For all our US based team members, we offer a variety of benefits from competitive salaries, medical, dental and vision coverage, disability coverage, employer paid life insurance, mental health resources, 401(k) plan and a fully paid parental leave program.

Additional perks include:

• Generous PTO
• Flexible work schedules
• Remote work opportunities
• Paid company holidays
• Appspace Quiet Fridays (No non-essential internal meetings scheduled)
• A casual dress work environment