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Cybersecurity role profile
Hire a Cloud Security Engineer
Harden cloud estates — identity, automation and continuous control
Our IT recruitment team combines IT executive search, specialist IT recruiters and scalable technology recruitment for security-critical hiring.
Cloud security engineers operationalise the shared responsibility model: identity, segmentation, secrets, logging and policy-as-code. CSPM/CWPP patterns surface misconfiguration early.
The NIST CSF frames outcomes; OWASP ASVS and OWASP Top 10 matter for cloud-hosted applications.
NIS2 and enterprise policy can tighten evidence for configuration and change records.
Hiring demands hands-on hyperscaler skills, IaC and security automation — plus alignment with platform and development teams.
Role profile
Purpose
Run cloud environments hardened and auditable — without stalling innovation.
Typical accountability
Security baselines, IAM models, logging/monitoring, CI/CD integration, architecture and SOC alignment.
Example KPIs
- • Critical misconfiguration trend
- • IAM hygiene
- • time-to-remediate cloud findings
Responsibilities in detail
1. Landing zones and guardrails
Design secure accounts/subscriptions, networking and keys; policy-as-code.
2. Identity and access
Least privilege, PAM integration, SSO; periodic access reviews.
3. Detection and logging
Centralise telemetry for SOC; cloud-relevant detection use cases.
4. DevSecOps
Pipeline scanning; partner OWASP SAMM-aligned AppSec.
Interfaces
Internal
- Cloud platform
- AppSec
- SOC
- architecture
External
- CSP support
- MSSP
Cloud security sits between speed (DevOps) and control — balance is the skill.
Qualifications
Professional
- Depth in AWS/Azure/GCP
- Terraform/Bicep/ARM
- IAM and network security
Collaboration
- Works with engineering
- pragmatism
- continuous learning as roadmaps shift
Salary orientation (Germany)
Cloud security often tracks upper IT architecture bands; CCSK/CCSP signal commitment.
Hiring challenges
Cloud talent is scarce; identity and ransomware pressure raises the bar on IAM and backups.
- • Shadow IT and multi-cloud without standards.
- • SOC blind spots when logging is incomplete.
- • Tool sprawl without integration.
More role profiles
See the cybersecurity recruiting overview for all profiles — or jump to related roles:
- • Hire an Application Security Engineer (AppSec)
- • Hire a SOC Manager
- • Hire a Security Architect (Information Security)
- • Hire a CISO
We also fill roles in industrial IT recruitment — including OT/ICS security, manufacturing IT and industrial architecture.
Hire a cloud security engineer
We test cloud security depth via IAM baselines, logging coverage and pipeline gates — not badge collection.
Scoped to your hyperscaler mix and the Dev/platform collaboration model you run.