Cloud Security Engineer

People Tec is currently seeking a Cloud Security Engineer to support our Huntsville, AL
location.

This hands-on role focuses on designing, implementing, and integrating security solutions across Microsoft Azure, AWS, and hybrid-cloud environments. Key areas include identity and access management, Zero Trust, vulnerability management, Dev Sec Ops , and security automation. The engineer will collaborate with technical teams to develop secure, scalable solutions and transition capabilities into operations. Flexible remote, hybrid, and onsite work arrangements are available, based on program requirements.

Occasional travel may be required.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, configure, and integrate cloud security capabilities, including EDR/XDR, CSPM, SIEM, SOAR, WAF, vulnerability management, and cloud-native security services.
• Engineer scalable security architectures and technical controls for Microsoft Azure, AWS, and hybrid-cloud environments.
• Design and implement security logging, detection rules, telemetry collection, dashboards, and automated security capabilities required to support effective security monitoring and response.
• Design and configure Web Application Firewall (WAF) architectures, policies, and baseline rule sets to protect internet-facing applications and services.
• Engineer and integrate Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) capabilities to identify cloud security vulnerabilities, configuration weaknesses, and compliance gaps.
• Design and implement identity and access security controls, including Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Conditional Access, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), privileged access, service identities, and least-privilege access models.
• Engineer vulnerability management capabilities and processes supporting the identification, prioritization, remediation, and validation of vulnerabilities across cloud infrastructure, applications, and workloads.
• Develop scripts, automation, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to support repeatable security deployments, configuration management, compliance validation, and security control implementation.
• Integrate security requirements and controls into cloud infrastructure, operating systems, applications, containers, and supporting services.
• Integrate cybersecurity capabilities into CI/CD pipelines and Dev Sec Ops  workflows to enable automated security testing and validation throughout the development lifecycle.
• Develop and maintain cloud security architectures, technical procedures, system diagrams, configuration standards, engineering documentation, and operational runbooks.
• Define technical requirements, configuration baselines, acceptance criteria, and transition artifacts necessary to move security capabilities from engineering into operational environments.
• Support testing and validation of security capabilities prior to operational transition, ensuring solutions meet defined cybersecurity, performance, and compliance requirements.
• Conduct knowledge transfer and technical transition activities with operations personnel as capabilities mature and are prepared for operational ownership.
• Collaborate with cloud engineers, infrastructure engineers, application teams, cybersecurity personnel, and operations teams to identify security requirements and engineer appropriate technical solutions.

Required Skills/

Experience:

• Minimum of two (2) years of professional experience designing, implementing, or securing Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or hybrid-cloud environments; five (5) or more years of relevant cloud security experience is preferred.
• Minimum of two (2) years of experience engineering, implementing, integrating, or configuring enterprise security technologies such as EDR/XDR, SIEM, SOAR,…