Senior Cloud Security Engineer
Greystar Real Estate Services, LLC1 day ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$140k - $170k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and own cloud security architecture patterns for IAM guardrails, network segmentation, encryption, secrets management, and secure landing zones.
- Own cloud policy-as-code, including custom policies, initiative assignments, and enforcement governance.
- Build IaC scanning, container image scanning, SAST/DAST, dependency scanning, and secrets detection into CI/CD pipelines.
- Review and remediate supply-chain risks involving GitHub Actions, MCP servers, and external connectors.
- Secure cloud-native and AI/ML workloads, including network isolation, model endpoints, API keys, and third-party integrations.
- Define least-privilege RBAC, conditional access, just-in-time privileged access, workload identity federation, and recurring access reviews.
- Tune Defender for Cloud recommendations and Sentinel analytics rules and contribute cloud-specific incident-response runbooks and training.
- Remediate CSPM, vulnerability, configuration, identity, and secrets findings directly through code and cloud configuration.
- Map Azure and AWS controls to SOC 2, PCI, and CIS Benchmarks requirements.
- Serve as the primary cloud security authority in architecture reviews and maintain cloud security documentation, reference architectures, and runbooks.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- 8+ years of experience in cloud security, security architecture, or security-focused cloud infrastructure engineering, including senior- or principal-level experience.
- Expert hands-on experience securing Azure environments with Azure Policy, Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, network security groups, and private endpoints.
- Working knowledge of AWS security services including IAM, Security Hub, GuardDuty, and Config.
- Experience reviewing and hardening Terraform, ARM, or Bicep infrastructure as code.
- Experience defining and enforcing CI/CD security gates covering SAST/DAST, container image scanning, dependency scanning, and secrets detection.
- Expert understanding of Entra ID, RBAC, least-privilege design, just-in-time access, and workload identity federation.
- Experience identifying and triaging cloud-specific security signals and transferring detection knowledge to incident-response teams.
- Proficiency in PowerShell, Python, or Bash for security automation and remediation at scale.
- Strong executive communication skills and the ability to explain security risk and remediation priorities to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Preferred: experience securing Databricks and Unity Catalog, container and Kubernetes security including AKS, AI/ML and LLM-adjacent infrastructure, compliance audits, and cloud security certifications such as Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert, AWS Certified Security - Specialty, or CCSP.
Benefits
- Competitive medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance benefits, including low or free basic employee-only medical coverage.
- Paid time off including 15 vacation days, 4 personal days, 10 sick days, and 11 paid holidays for new hires, with additional vacation based on tenure.
- Remote work is available anywhere in the United States except Alaska.
- Onsite team members may receive discounts on housing at Greystar-managed communities, subject to availability.
- Six-week paid sabbatical after 10 years of service and every five years thereafter.
- 401(k) with company match up to 6% of pay after six months of service.
- Paid parental leave and lifetime fertility benefit reimbursement up to $10,000, including adoption and surrogacy.
- Employee Assistance Program, critical illness, accident, hospital indemnity, pet insurance, and legal plans.
- Charitable giving program and benefits.
- The position may be eligible for quarterly or annual bonus programs; benefits apply to full-time employees and may vary for union or prevailing-wage roles.
About Greystar Real Estate Services, LLC
Greystar Real Estate Services is a privately held global real estate firm focused on institutional‑quality rental housing, providing property management, investment management, development, and construction services for owners and investors. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina, it manages and operates over $350 billion of real estate across 260+ markets and is the largest apartment operator in the United States, overseeing more than one million units/beds worldwide.