Cloud Security Engineer

WebTPA is a healthcare organization seeking a Cloud Security Engineer to build and operate security controls across commercial, GovCloud, and secondary cloud platforms. The role focuses on preventive and detective cloud controls, PHI data protection, logging pipelines, infrastructure automation, privileged access, encryption, and compliance evidence for security audits.

Responsibilities:

• Implement and maintain preventive controls: SCPs, IAM policy, permission boundaries, encryption, secrets
• Configure, tune, and operate detective controls; drive findings to remediation
• Build data protection controls for PHI, including lower-environment test data handling
• Automate evidence collection and support audit and assessment cycles
• Review application and vendor designs; respond to cloud security escalations
• Build the cloud logging pipeline that feeds the security operations center
• Deliver controls through Terraform and CI/CD
• Produce control evidence for HITRUST, HIPAA, SOC 2, FedRAMP, and internal audit
• Manage encryption and KMS key architecture across accounts

Requirements:

• 6+ years related work experience in relevant information security, with 4+ years in cloud security engineering
• Related Bachelor's degree required
• Strong AWS/Azure IAM skills, including cross-account access and federation
• Hands-on Terraform
• Experience with cloud native security services in production
• Experience in an environment governed by HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, FedRAMP, or NIST 800-53
• Required to obtain Certified Information Systems Security Professional License (CISSP) within 180 Days of hire
• Healthcare payer experience
• AWS/Azure Security Specialty, CCSP, or GIAC cloud security certification
• GovCloud and FedRAMP Moderate or High
• Security engineering across two or more major cloud platforms
• SIEM integration and detection engineering
• Privileged access management tooling