Cloud Security Lead
Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO)
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $130,000 - $150,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Design and implement secure cloud architecture patterns
- Establish guardrails for AWS accounts and services
- Strengthen multi-account strategy and segmentation
- Improve IAM design, permission boundaries, and least-privilege models
- Review major infrastructure changes for security impact
- Implement and tune cloud-native detection capabilities
- Integrate AWS security services into centralized monitoring
- Identify misconfigurations and excessive permissions
- Improve signal-to-noise ratio in cloud alerts
- Embed security controls into Terraform or other IaC workflows
- Enforce policy-as-code guardrails
- Ensure IaC scanning is integrated into CI/CD pipelines
- Reduce configuration drift across environments
- Oversee cloud misconfiguration detection and remediation
- Track infrastructure vulnerability exposure
- Reduce critical vulnerability exposure window
- Partner with Platform teams to automate remediation
- Ensure proper encryption standards across storage and databases
- Manage KMS usage and key lifecycle best practices
- Strengthen logging and monitoring coverage
- Lead cloud-focused investigations during security incidents
- Improve forensic readiness in AWS
- Harden logging and evidence retention practices
- Automate guardrails and enforcement mechanisms
- Improve developer experience with secure cloud defaults
- Reduce manual cloud security reviews
- Optimizing tooling cost and effectiveness
- Define KPIs for cloud security posture
- Report on misconfiguration trends and exposure windows
- Provide executive-level reporting on infrastructure risk
- Support audit and compliance evidence collection
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in cloud security, cloud engineering, or infrastructure security
- Deep expertise in AWS architecture and services
- Strong understanding of IAM design and least-privilege principles
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD integration
- Experience implementing cloud-native detection and monitoring
- Ability to translate infrastructure risk into business impact.
Benefits
- Great Healthcare + Dental + Vision
- Flexible PTO
- Culture of support, encouraging Life-Work balance
- 401k match
- FSA and HSA options
- Employee Assistance Program
- Paid Parental Leave
- Representing a company with 4,000+ clients and a 99% retention rate
- Accelerated title and salary growth potential
- A fun and energetic work environment that makes you excited to go to work every day
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
cloud architectureAWSIAM designInfrastructure as CodeCI/CD integrationcloud-native detectionmonitoringTerraformpolicy-as-codeencryption standards
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationcollaborationanalytical thinkingproblem-solving