This is a fully remote, full-time Cloud Security Engineer opening with a base salary of $138,000 a year, open to applicants anywhere. Day-to-day work centers on protecting cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP, catching problems before they become incidents, and stepping in when they don't.
About the Role
A cloud security engineer on this team designs and implements the controls that keep cloud environments locked down, and then keeps watch for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations before they become real problems. When something does go wrong, this person contains it, works through what happened, and gets systems back to a secure state. The exact tooling depends on the client's cloud footprint, but the core mandate holds steady across engagements: build defenses ahead of trouble, catch what slips through routine monitoring, and respond quickly when an incident actually lands. Most of the client base runs multi-cloud or hybrid setups, so comfort moving between provider-specific consoles and shared tooling matters more than deep specialization in a single platform.
What You'll Be Doing
- Design and implement security controls across cloud environments, including identity policies, network segmentation, and encryption standards
- Monitor cloud infrastructure for vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and unusual access patterns on an ongoing basis
- Investigate and respond to security incidents affecting cloud systems, from initial detection through root-cause analysis
- Maintain compliance documentation and support audits tied to frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, or HIPAA, depending on the client
- Automate repetitive security checks and remediation steps using scripting or infrastructure-as-code tools
- Review access requests and rotate credentials on a regular schedule to keep identity sprawl from becoming a liability
Priorities shift depending on what's active. A quiet week might be mostly policy review and patching drift; a rougher one means an incident takes over the schedule until it's resolved. Documentation follows every incident, regardless of severity, since patterns in smaller events often catch a bigger one early. Over time, that documentation also becomes the reference material new hires lean on during their own ramp-up.
Education and Experience
A bachelor's degree in computer science, cybersecurity, or a closely related field is the baseline for this role. The listing calls for 36 months of experience in cloud security or a closely related position, ideally including exposure to at least one live incident, rather than only lab or training environments. The path to becoming a remote cloud security engineer through this listing is reasonably well-defined: a bachelor's degree, three years of hands-on cloud security experience, and at least one recognized certification. CCSP and AWS Security Specialty are both called out specifically; neither is described as mandatory, but holding one will strengthen an application, particularly for candidates whose day-to-day experience leans more generalist than cloud-focused.
Skills
Candidates should bring hands-on cloud security experience and be comfortable across most of the following:
- Cloud security across AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Identity and access management (IAM) design and enforcement
- Network security, including segmentation, firewalls, and traffic monitoring
- Security automation and scripting for repeatable remediation
- Compliance frameworks relevant to cloud environments
- Incident response, from detection through post-incident review
None of these need to be mastered on day one. A strong foundation in two or three of them, with working familiarity across the rest, covers most of what the role actually requires. Comfort with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform helps, since a fair share of remediation work involves adjusting configuration rather than clicking through a console.
Team and Day-to-Day
Naukri Mitra works with a range of clients hiring for cloud-focused security roles, and this particular opening sits on a fully remote, distributed team. Coordination happens mostly asynchronously through ticketing systems and chat, with scheduled syncs used sparingly for planning or post-incident review rather than for daily status updates. Cloud environments drift constantly, and misconfigurations tend to surface at inconvenient moments, so some flexibility around working hours during an active incident comes with the territory, even on a role advertised as remote-first. Most weeks settle into a workable rhythm of monitoring, documentation, and planned improvements, with incident response layered on top when it's needed. Collaboration with platform and infrastructure teams is routine, since security controls only hold up when they're built alongside the systems they're protecting rather than bolted on afterward.
Onboarding and Support
New hires typically spend the first couple of weeks getting access provisioned, walking through existing architecture diagrams, and shadowing an incident review or two before taking anything on solo. There's no expectation to memorize every client's environment at once; ramp-up is staged, starting with monitoring and policy work before moving into incident-response ownership. Questions go to a small security team rather than a single manager, so answers usually come faster when something's unclear mid-task. Written runbooks exist for the most common incident types, though a fair amount of judgment is still required once an issue moves outside the documented playbook.
Compensation and Benefits
Compensation for this role is fixed at $138,000 a year, paid as a full-time salary. At $138,000, that figure sits comfortably toward the mid-to-senior end of typical cloud security engineer remote salary ranges for a three-year experience requirement.
- Health insurance coverage
- Paid time off
- Retirement plan matching
- Reimbursement for security certifications, including exam and renewal fees
Certification reimbursement covers both new credentials and renewals, which matters in a field where most certifications expire on a two- or three-year cycle and require continuing education credits to maintain.
Applying
Cloud security engineer jobs worldwide are increasingly open to remote candidates, and this one carries no location restriction at all. Candidates in any time zone are eligible, provided they can coordinate reasonably with a distributed team. To apply, submit a resume through the standard application process attached to this posting, and note any current certifications relevant to cloud security. Prior incident response experience worth highlighting can go directly in the application rather than waiting for an interview. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and candidates who move forward can expect an initial screening call followed by a more technical conversation focused on real scenarios from past cloud security work.
