Cloud Security Engineer
QTS Data Centers
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Suwanee • United States
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About the role
- Build and maintain secure, resilient cloud environments across public, private, and hybrid platforms.
- Apply security best practices to new and existing cloud applications, ensuring compliance with QTS security and regulatory standards.
- Partner with architects, IT teams, and system owners to guide secure application and infrastructure design.
- Implement and support strong identity and access management controls, including MFA, hardware tokens, and other authentication methods.
- Maintain consistent cloud configurations using tools like Puppet, Chef, or Ansible.
- Work with SOC and incident response teams to investigate alerts, analyze threats, and respond quickly to cloud security events.
- Create playbooks, documentation, and automated response workflows using AI and SOAR to improve speed and accuracy.
- Develop and maintain scripts (Python, PowerShell, Ruby) to support secure data flow and security operations.
- Review cloud environments regularly to identify risks and recommend security improvements.
- Support remediation efforts following audits, assessments, and vulnerability reports.
- Stay current on emerging security threats, tools, and best practices, applying them to strengthen QTS’ cloud posture.
- Participate in project and implementation meetings as a security advisor.
- Communicate risks and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical teams.
- Work effectively with internal teams and external vendors to ensure cloud solutions remain secure.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information assurance, MIS or related field, or equivalent industry experience
- At least 5-7+ years’ experience in cybersecurity as a practitioner and with at least 2-3+ years exposure with SaaS platforms (Box, Salesforce, ServiceNow, M365 etc), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure or VMware.
- Strong Linux and Windows support skills.
- Experienced in cloud networking architecture and cloud operations, with cloud access security broker (CASB) experience preferred.
- Familiarity with tools such as Git, Jenkins, Chef, Puppet and Salt.
- Network and encryption experience, including virtual private networks (VPNs), IPsec, SSL/TLS, LDAP and public key infrastructure (PKI).
- IDAM experience, such as OAuth, OpenID, Azure Active Directory.
- Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, PowerShell or JavaScript.
- Experienced in the use of threat intelligence services in a production environment.
- Experience and understanding of various regulatory requirements and laws, including but not limited to: Payment Card Industry (PCI), Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA). Additionally, experience in one or more of the following: ISO 27001/2, ITIL or NIST.
- Up-to-date understanding of a wide-range of incident response, system configuration, vulnerability management and hardening guidelines.
- Track record of acting with integrity, taking pride in work, seeking to excel, being curious and adaptable, and communicating effectively.
- Team leadership experience to help with the organizational and team dynamics in a growing field.
- Demonstrated problem-solving abilities to manage complex local and international security requirements.
- Self-motivated and directed, well-organized and able to position controls in anticipation of threats.
- Successful track record collaborating with technical and non-technical teams to promote ideas to support business enablement.
- Familiarity with international and state privacy laws.
- Experience writing technical documentation.
- Highly trustworthy; leads by example.
- US Citizenship for this position is required by law due to federal customer contracts
Benefits
- medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan
- flexible spending and HSA accounts
- paid holidays
- paid time off
- paid volunteer days
- employee assistance program
- tuition assistance
- parental leave
- military leave assistance
- QTS scholarship for dependents
- wellness program
- other company benefits
- Bonus eligible
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Hard Skills & Tools
cloud securityidentity and access managementscripting (Python, PowerShell, Ruby)cloud networking architecturecloud operationsnetwork encryptionthreat intelligencevulnerability managementincident responseregulatory compliance
Soft Skills
problem-solvingteam leadershipcommunicationadaptabilityintegrityself-motivationorganizationcollaborationcuriosityattention to detail
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in computer scienceISO 27001/2ITILNISTPCISOXHIPAAGDPRGLBA