Category: IT
Location: Des Moines, Iowa
Work Type: Contract
Salary: -
Salary: -
Work Model: Hybrid
Reference #: 46127
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
- 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 scraveiro@thepalmergroup.com.
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About Palmer Group
At Palmer Group, making lives better is at the core of everything we do. For nearly three decades, we have partnered with organizations and individuals to provide thoughtful talent and business solutions that empower careers and drive growth.
As an employee-owned company grounded in strong ethics and values, we are committed to building lasting relationships and delivering results. Contractors working through Palmer Group are eligible to become employee-owners, giving them a stake in our shared success, and enjoy benefits including health insurance, PTO, and 401(k) options.
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