Cloud Security Engineer

We are HCLTech, one of the fastest-growing large tech companies in the world and home to 219,000+ people across 54 countries, supercharging progress through industry-leading capabilities centered around Digital, Engineering and Cloud.

The driving force behind that work, our people, are diverse, creative, and passionate, raising the bar for excellence on a regular basis. We, in turn, work hard to bring out the best in them as we strive to help them find their spark and become the best version of themselves that they can be.

Are you ready to be an important part of this ever-transformational journey?

At HCLTech Australia, we value the unique perspective and contributions of all individual and we actively encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to apply for this role.

Duration: 6 months Fixed Term Contract Role

Location: Sydney

Experience and Skills requirement:

1. Strong experience securing cloud environments across AWS and Azure, including cloud security architecture, security posture management, governance, compliance, and implementation of security controls.
2. Hands-on experience with AWS Security Hub, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Sentinel, GuardDuty, AWS Config, Azure Policy, and related cloud-native security services for threat detection, security monitoring, compliance assessment, and remediation.
3. Experience in DevSecOps and CI/CD security using Azure DevOps Pipelines, including pipeline hardening, secure build and release practices, code signing, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, software supply chain security, and integration of security controls into delivery pipelines.
4. Strong understanding of secrets and key management using Azure Key Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, HSM-backed solutions, certificate management, encryption, and automated credential rotation.
5. Experience identifying, assessing, and remediating vulnerabilities across cloud, infrastructure, operating systems, containers, and applications using tools such as Qualys, CrowdStrike, Prisma Cloud, Microsoft Defender, and AWS Security Hub.
6. Strong knowledge of Identity and Access Management (IAM), Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Privileged Access Management (PAM), Zero Trust principles, Conditional Access, and least-privilege security models.
7. Good understanding of network and infrastructure security, including Firewalls, WAF, DDoS protection, network segmentation, private connectivity, DNS security, Network Security Groups, Security Groups, and hybrid cloud security architectures.
8. Experience implementing and maintaining cloud security guardrails, policy-as-code, compliance frameworks, security baselines, and automated remediation mechanisms across AWS and Azure environments.
9. Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, with emphasis on secure infrastructure deployment, policy compliance, and security control implementation.
10. Experience working within Agile, DevOps, and Security Engineering teams, collaborating across development, infrastructure, architecture, and cyber security functions.
11. Strong capability in security monitoring, compliance reporting, incident response, threat management, and cloud security operations within enterprise-scale environments

Equality & Opportunity for All

Representing 165 nationalities across the globe, we pride ourselves on being an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees regardless of race, religion, sex, color, age, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, physical disability or genetic information, military or veteran status, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people or any other protected classification, in accordance with federal, state, and/or local law.

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