Senior Cloud Security Engineer
The Palmer Group · thepalmergroup.com
JohnstonHybridSenior
The job in short
Cloud security engineering.
PythonAWSKubernetesDockerTerraform
Details
- Found
- 9 d ago · posted 2026-09-30
- Location as listed
- Johnston, Iowa
- Role
- Security Engineer
- Source
- The company’s own careers site
Full description
As Senior Cloud Security Engineer you will focus on driving down a growing backlog of security needs across the engineering org — partnering with application delivery teams to identify, prioritize, and remediate security issues in cloud and application environments. This role owns cloud infrastructure, CI/CD patterns and tooling, and SRE practices — providing security domain expertise and driving adoption of standardized, secure patterns across the business. Apply now!
Work Model:
• Hybrid
What You'll Do:
• Work through a broad backlog of security items across the organization, helping teams understand, prioritize, and fix issues
• Identify and remediate secrets and credentials committed to codebases, and help teams adopt secure secrets management practices
• Drive down patching backlogs across infrastructure and applications, coordinating with teams to close vulnerabilities
• Partner directly with application delivery teams to influence architecture decisions and secure-by-default AWS practices
• Design and evangelize secure CI/CD patterns and help drive their adoption across the organization
• Support complex applications through daily troubleshooting of security-related issues
• Solve complex problems spanning infrastructure security and application development
What You Will Need to Be Successful:
• Full-stack development background with the ability to bridge infrastructure and application engineering
• Strong experience with AWS cloud architecture and security best practices
• Proficiency with Terraform
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD patterns, including security scanning and gating
• Experience with secrets management and remediation (e.g., detecting/removing secrets in code)
• Familiarity with vulnerability management and patching processes at scale
• Familiarity with serverless architecture
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and Docker Compose
• Proficiency in Python
Benefits Overview:
• 401k
• Major health insurances
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• Click here for a complete list of benefits
Interested and qualified candidates can contact Sarah Craveiro at (515) 225-7000 or email Sarah at [email protected].
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