About the Role:

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Summary

The Cloud Operations & Compliance Engineer is responsible for day-to-day cloud operational support and continuous compliance across a multi-account cloud environment. This role owns cloud account provisioning, OU (Organizational Unit) management, Cloud Custodian policy operations, and Tenable vulnerability management, partnering with Security, Platform Engineering, and application teams to keep cloud environments secure, compliant, and scalable.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Account Provisioning & Lifecycle

• Provision, configure, and decommission cloud accounts/subscriptions/projects using approved enterprise standards (naming, tagging, guardrails, baseline monitoring, logging).
• Implement and maintain “day-1” and “day-2” readiness controls: access, encryption defaults, audit logging, centralized security services, and required integrations.
• Maintain account inventory, ownership metadata, and operational runbooks; ensure accounts meet onboarding requirements before go-live.

OU / Organization Management (Governance at Scale)

• Design, maintain, and optimize OU structures aligned to business units, environments (prod/non-prod), and compliance boundaries.
• Manage and validate guardrails and inheritance models (policies, baseline controls, SCP-like restrictions where applicable, service enablement).
• Coordinate OU moves and account restructuring with minimal disruption; assess blast radius and validate policy impacts.

Cloud Custodian Management (Policy-as-Code Operations)

• Develop, deploy, and maintain Cloud Custodian policies to enforce governance (tagging, encryption, public exposure controls, identity hygiene, cost controls).
• Operate Cloud Custodian execution pipelines/schedules; manage policy testing, approvals, exceptions, and rollbacks.
• Investigate policy findings, tune rules to reduce false positives, and document decisioning for auditability.
• Produce compliance evidence and metrics (policy coverage, remediation rates, exception aging).

Tenable Management (Vulnerability & Exposure Management)

• Administer Tenable integrations for cloud vulnerability visibility (asset discovery, credentialing where approved, scan scheduling, agent coverage where applicable).
• Triage vulnerability findings, validate exploitability/asset criticality, and coordinate remediation with service owners.
• Track SLAs, risk acceptance/exception workflows, and recurring reporting for leadership and auditors.
• Improve coverage and data quality (asset tagging alignment, deduplication, ownership mapping).

Compliance Operations & Audit Support

• Support compliance programs by maintaining control evidence (logging, monitoring, vulnerability management, configuration baselines).
• Participate in internal and external audits: gather artifacts, explain technical controls, and implement corrective actions.
• Maintain documentation for cloud standards, baselines, and operational procedures.

Operations, Incident Support, and Continuous Improvement

• Respond to cloud security/compliance incidents and operational issues; perform root cause analysis and drive corrective/preventative actions.
• Automate repetitive tasks using scripting and infrastructure-as-code where possible; improve reliability and reduce manual toil.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate compliance controls into CI/CD and platform patterns.

Required Qualifications

• 3–6 years’ experience in cloud operations, cloud security, or governance/compliance engineering.
• Hands-on experience managing multi-account cloud environments (account lifecycle, policy/guardrails, centralized logging/monitoring).
• Practical experience with policy-as-code and operating enforcement tooling (e.g., Cloud Custodian) in production.
• Experience administering vulnerability management tooling and workflows (e.g., Tenable), including remediation coordination and SLA tracking.
• Scripting/automation proficiency (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell) and familiarity with IaC concepts (Terraform/CloudFormation-like).
• Strong operational discipline: documentation, change management, troubleshooting, and stakeholder communication.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with identity and access governance patterns (RBAC/least privilege, role design, access reviews).
• Experience integrating security/compliance controls into CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with common compliance frameworks (SOC