Senior Cloud Engineer Remote Jobs in Addison, IL

The Sr. Cloud Security Engineer (Sr. CSE) is a hybrid cloud and security engineering role responsible for the hands-on remediation of infrastructure and cloud vulnerabilities, ensuring cloud and infrastructure resources maintain compliance with established policies and Minimum-Security Baselines (MSBs), and reporting the organization\'s current compliance posture. The Sr. CSE will partner with the Security team to define, author, and maintain cloud security policies - keeping pace with evolving industry trends and regulatory requirements. This role will also actively participate in audit activities, including evidence gathering, reporting, and cross-functional collaboration with Compliance, Legal, and IT teams. 

Duties & Responsibilities: 

Vulnerability Remediation & Security Operations 

• Perform hands-on remediation of infrastructure and cloud vulnerabilities, driving issues to closure within established SLAs and policy requirements 

• Operate and administer vulnerability management and cloud security posture management (CSPM/DSPM) tooling - managing scan coverage, remediating findings, and reporting on SLA adherence 

• Identify, prioritize, and remediate cloud misconfigurations and security posture gaps across the organization\'s Azure subscriptions and infrastructure 

• Implement and validate security controls across cloud-native services, IaaS, PaaS, and container-based workloads 

• Maintain and enforce secure configurations across firewalls, network security components, application delivery infrastructure, and compute platforms in partnership with the Security Team 

• When needed, assist with privileged credential hygiene, certificate lifecycle, and secrets governance across the environment 

• Support the hardening of Windows and Linux server environments through configuration management and compliance-as-code practices 

• Maintain awareness of known and emerging vulnerabilities across the full technology stack - cloud services, OS platforms, network components, and application runtimes 

Compliance, Policy & Reporting 

• Monitor and report the organization\'s compliance posture against established security policies, baselines, and regulatory frameworks 

• Partner with the Security team to define, author, and maintain cloud and infrastructure security policies - keeping pace with evolving industry trends and regulatory requirements 

• Review and update existing policies on a regular cadence to reflect changes in the cloud environment and threat landscape 

• Produce accurate, timely compliance posture reports for leadership - covering baseline adherence, vulnerability SLA performance, and remediation progress 

• Coordinate and assist in evidence collection and audit maintenance for internal and external organizational assessments, including regulatory audits and third-party risk reviews 

• Respond to findings from audits, security questionnaires, and internal/external scanning or penetration testing 

CI/CD Pipeline & Infrastructure Security 

• Partner with Software Engineering and App Security  teams to embed security into CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows - including secret scanning, least-privilege deployment identities, and secrets management integration 

• Review and advise on Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) implementations from a security perspective, ensuring patterns align with security baselines and organizational standards 

• Support secure configuration management across server and cloud environments 

• Ensure PKI and certificate management practices are maintained across the environment - including TLS/SSL lifecycle, renewal processes, and certificate inventory 

Technical Leadership & Mentorship 

• Serve as an informal technical leader and security subject matter expert across Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, and adjacent teams 

• Mentor engineers on security best practices, secure design patterns, and compliance requirements - elevating security competency across the department without direct people management responsibilities 

• Contribute to architecture and design reviews, providing a security lens on cloud platform decisions in partnership with the Cloud Architect 

Cross-Team Collaboration 

• Cloud Engineering & Platform Engineering - consult on secure architecture, container platform hardening, network segmentation, and pipeline security practices 

• Identity & Access Management (IAM) - partner on identity governance, privileged access management, and access control policy enforcement 

• Incident Response / Vulnerability Management - collaborate with the Security Detection & Response team on vulnerability prioritization, SLA tracking, remediation coordination, and incident response activities 

• Audits & Assessments - provide technical support for evidence gathering, compliance posture reporting, and audit response 

• Application Development Teams - consult on security requirements for cloud-native application platforms, ensuring developer environments are built securely from the ground up 

Additional Requirements:

As part of the evaluation process, candidates who progress beyond the initial screening will be required to complete a formal technical assessment to validate coding proficiency and technical competency.

Education & Experience 

• 10+ years of experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure, or security engineering - with demonstrated hands-on security work, not just advisory 

• Bachelor\'s Degree in Computer Science, Software/Computing Engineering, Information Security, or related field - or equivalent experience 

• Technical certifications preferred: AZ-500, SC-100, SC-200, AZ-104, or equivalent cloud/security certifications 

• Experience working in regulated industries (Financial Services, Insurance, or Health-Tech preferred) 

• Familiarity with compliance frameworks: NIST, HIPAA, PCI and Minimum Security Baselines (MSBs) 

Skills & Abilities 

Hands-on experience or significant exposure to the following services and concepts: 

Cloud Platform - Azure 

• Networking & Security: Virtual Networks (VNETs) and peering, NSGs, UDRs, Private Endpoints, Azure Firewall, Application Gateways (including WAF - OWASP ruleset configuration, Detection vs. Prevention mode), ExpressRoute, VPN Gateways, and Azure Bastion 

• Compute & Containers: Virtual Machines, VM Scale Sets, AKS (Kubernetes), and Container App Environments - including cluster hardening, network policy enforcement, workload identity, and Azure Policy for Kubernetes 

• Identity & Access: Active Directory (on-prem, hybrid Entra Connect sync), Microsoft Entra ID, Privileged Identity Management (PIM), Conditional Access policy design and enforcement, Azure RBAC (including custom role design), and Entra ID Protection 

• Security & Compliance Tooling: Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Cloud (Defender for Containers, Defender for Servers, Defender CSPM), and Azure Policy 

• Monitoring & Observability: Azure Monitor - KQL, alert rule configuration, log-based queries, and action group integrations; familiarity with Log Analytics Workspace architecture and log ingestion patterns at scale 

• Secrets & Certificates: Azure Key Vault and Key Vault CSI Secrets Store driver for AKS 

• Storage & Recovery: Storage Accounts, Backup Vault, and Azure Site Recovery 

• Virtual Desktop: Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) 

Security Tooling 

• Rapid7 - vulnerability management and scanning (InsightVM or InsightIDR); scan configuration, reporting, and SLA tracking 

• Wiz and/or Orca Security - CSPM/DSPM platform experience; cloud misconfiguration identification, prioritization, and remediation workflows 

• Microsoft Sentinel - SIEM administration, analytics rule management, and data connector configuration; familiarity with security log feeds from edge and email security platforms preferred 

• Microsoft Defender for Cloud - Defender plans (Servers, Containers, CSPM), agentless scanning, and security recommendation management 

• Datadog - log management, infrastructure monitoring, and security-adjacent alerting 

• Identity, Access & Privileged Access Management 

• Delinea Secret Server (Thycotic) - PAM administration, privileged credential vault management, and access policy configuration 

• Active Directory + Entra ID - hybrid identity, Entra Connect sync, group policy (GPO), DNS, and DHCP administration 

• Conditional Access, PIM, and RBAC - policy design, enforcement, and least-privilege access models at enterprise scale 

• Microsoft Intune - device compliance enforcement as part of a Zero Trust security posture 

• Certificate Management - PKI, TLS/SSL lifecycle management, certificate inventory, and renewal processes 

Network & Perimeter Security 

• Cloudflare (Enterprise) - CDN, WAF, DDoS protection, and DNS proxy configuration and management 

• Network routing and VPN - hub-and-spoke topology, route tables, ExpressRoute, and VPN Gateway 

• Cisco ASAv - virtual firewall configuration and management 

• DNS, DHCP, and Group Policy - enterprise-scale administration in hybrid environments 

• DevOps, IaC & Pipeline Security 

• Azure DevOps (ADO) - CI/CD pipeline security, build agent management, and secure pipeline design 

• GitHub / GitLab - source control security, branch protection, secret scanning, and pipeline hardening 

• Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) - Terraform, ARM templates, or Bicep - with a security-first approach to cloud deployments 

• CHEF - configuration management and compliance-as-code for server fleet hardening and baseline enforcement 

• Endpoint & Server Platforms 

• Windows Server - administration, hardening, security baseline enforcement, and Group Policy management 

• Linux Server - administration, hardening, and security baseline enforcement across enterprise server fleets 

• Microsoft 365 Suite - Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, and Intune - security configuration and administration 

Frameworks & Compliance 

• Familiarity with NIST, HIPAA, and organizational Minimum Security Baselines (MSBs) 

• Understanding of Zero Trust architecture principles and how they apply across identity, network, and workload security 

• Familiarity with PCI-DSS scoped environment security requirements preferred 

• Experience operating in regulated industries (Financial Services, Insurance, or Health-Tech)  

Experience with or exposure to the following developer runtimes and technologies is a plus, as this role will consult on security posture within environments built on: 

• ASP.NET, .NET, Java (JBoss / Hibernate / JMS), gRPC, Redis, SQL Server