Cloud Security Engineer

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Introduction

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With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world.

Your Role And Responsibilities

At Hashi Corp, an IBM Company, we’re on a mission to enable organizations to provision, secure, connect, and run any infrastructure for any application. Our security team plays a critical role in this mission by ensuring the security and integrity of our cloud environments and services. We are looking for a Cloud Security Engineer to help scale our cloud security posture management and infrastructure security functions, providing innovative solutions across Hashi Corp’s suite of industry-leading products delivered as cloud, self-managed, and community offerings.

Security at Hashi Corp is a global team, and we value individuals who thrive with autonomy while collaborating effectively across engineering, product, and security teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement solutions that strengthen the security posture of Hashi Corp’s cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP and more).

• Monitor and respond to cloud security threats and vulnerabilities, develop mitigations, and communicate associated risks to stakeholders.

• Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) on cloud security best practices, including IAM, network security, container security, and workload protection.

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of security tooling and automation for cloud environments, including CI/CD integrations and vulnerability management systems.

• Research emerging cloud attack vectors and techniques, helping identify potential threats to Hashi Corp’s infrastructure and services.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement security standards and participate in architecture reviews for cloud deployments.

Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• Good understanding of cloud security principles and experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.

• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code security (Terraform, etc.).

• Knowledge of container security and Kubernetes hardening.

• Experience with vulnerability management and remediation in cloud environments.

• Good written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence and educate engineering teams.

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Experience with Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) tools;
Wiz experience is a plus.

• Familiarity with other CSPM or CNAPP solutions (e.g., Prisma Cloud, Lacework, Orca).

• Knowledge of security automation and scripting (Python, Go).

• Exposure to identity and access management (IAM) design and zero-trust principles.

• Understanding of compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP) and cloud governance.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology

• IT Services and IT Consulting

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