Staff Cloud Security Specialist

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Staff Cloud Security Specialist designing secure cloud architectures across multi-cloud environments for healthcare payments. Implementing security patterns and collaborating with engineering teams to meet compliance requirements.

Posted 6/10/2026full-timeAtlanta • Utah • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Cloud security design & implementation
Contribute to and maintain cloud security reference architectures, standards, and implementation patterns for IaaS, PaaS, containers/Kubernetes, and serverless workloads
Partner with engineering and platform teams to apply approved security patterns in new and existing cloud workloads
Help implement and operate secure cloud landing zone controls including account/project structures, network segmentation, IAM boundaries, logging, and policy guardrails
Implement least-privilege IAM for workforce and workload identities
Apply encryption, key management, tokenization, and data handling standards for sensitive data including payment and healthcare data
Participate in threat modeling and security design reviews for cloud services and applications
Ensure required cloud audit logs, telemetry, and security signals are enabled and flowing to centralized monitoring
Help define and maintain cloud hardening baselines, container/image standards, and configuration compliance controls
Partner with GRC and audit teams to map technical cloud controls to compliance frameworks

Requirements

What you’ll need

3+ years of hands-on experience securing workloads in public cloud environments (Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS, or Azure)
Multi-cloud experience preferred
Solid understanding of core cloud security concepts: IAM, networking, segmentation, logging/monitoring, encryption, key management, secrets management, and workload security
Experience using infrastructure-as-code and automation tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep) and supporting CI/CD pipelines
Familiarity with container and/or Kubernetes security fundamentals
Experience participating in threat modeling or security design reviews
Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to document designs and explain security requirements to engineering teams
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive total rewards (base salary + bonus, if applicable)
Customizable benefits package (3 medical plans with Health Saving Account company match)
Generous paid time off for non-exempt team members, starting with 3 weeks + 13 paid holidays, including 2 personal floating holidays
Flexible time off for exempt team members + 13 paid holidays
Paid parental leave (including maternity + paternity leave)
Education assistance opportunities and free LinkedIn Learning access
Free mental health and family planning programs, including adoption assistance and fertility support
401(K) program with company match
Pet insurance
Employee resource groups

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Hard Skills & Tools

cloud security designcloud security implementationIAMnetwork segmentationencryptionkey managementinfrastructure-as-codeTerraformCloudFormationKubernetes security

Soft Skills

strong written communicationstrong verbal communicationdocumentation skillscollaborationproblem-solving