Motus Recruiting and Staffing, Inc. · 17 hours ago
Hybrid-Cloud Security Systems Engineer (Hybrid in Portland, OR)
Portland, OR
Contract
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$70/hr - $75/hr
8+ years expMotus Recruiting and Staffing, Inc. is seeking a Hybrid-Cloud Security Systems Engineer for their client in Portland, OR. This role involves providing technical design, implementation, and solution delivery for hybrid IT infrastructure, focusing on security and compliance across multi-cloud platforms.
Human ResourcesInformation Technology
Hiring Manager
Angela Gatewood
Responsibilities
Serve as the primary engineering resource for the Information Security team, supporting security-focused strategic planning, systems integration, and security assessment remediation activities
Partner with Information Security team and key stakeholders to understand organizational needs and recommend technologies—including cloud services, container platforms, edge computing, networking architectures—that mature security practices, operational efficiency, and cost-effectiveness while automating manual processes
Contribute to security policy development and maintain security hardening standards across all infrastructure systems. Design and document application-layer policy-based security technologies and platforms
Provide subject matter expertise in the research, selection, acquisition, deployment, security, and lifecycle management of medium- and high-risk systems across multi-cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), on-premises environments, and PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS solutions
Explore and evaluate emerging technologies such as AI, Kubernetes orchestration, service mesh architectures, GitOps workflows, and advanced cloud constructs to drive innovation and organizational transformation
Maintain current knowledge of security standards and industry best practices including zero-trust networking, application segmentation, and cloud-native security
Respond as primary security engineer to information security events and incidents, in alignment and collaboration with the Information Security team. Participate in incident response efforts, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventative measures to reduce future occurrences
Serve as escalation point for critical infrastructure incidents, outages, and complex technical issues requiring senior-level IT troubleshooting and resolution across hybrid infrastructure, multi-cloud platforms, containerized environments, and on-premises systems
Respond to and support internal and external security and operational audits by providing technical documentation, system evidence, compliance reporting, and performing systems remediation activities
Participate in disaster recovery exercises and maintain business continuity plans for critical infrastructure systems
Perform security hardening of servers, virtualization platforms, and cloud resources
Continually improve systems security posture and identify opportunities to mature operational processes and administrative conventions and practices to achieve security outcomes
Provide subject matter expertise for secure administration, configuration management, monitoring, and operational resilience of production hybrid infrastructure systems across multi-cloud (AWS, Azure) and on-premises environments
Develop and leverage internal standards, infrastructure engineering skills, integration frameworks, APIs, Azure and AWS configuration, administration capabilities, and automation platforms to deploy and optimize system processes and deliver securely integrated system solutions
Develop and maintain DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines with automated security scanning, compliance validation, and deployment automation
Integrate and deploy complex solutions that incorporate maturing security controls into systems through automated scanning, policy enforcement, compliance-as-code, and industry standard tools
Qualification
Required
8+ years of experience as a Systems Engineer, with a security focus
Performing multicloud platform architecture delivery across AWS and Azure environments, and hybrid onprem workloads
Configuring, supporting, and troubleshooting security tools with automated security scans, compliance validation, and continuous deployment strategies
Configuring Windows and Linux servers in LAN, WAN, SDWAN, and hybrid infrastructure (AWS, Azure, onpremises)
Engineering enterprise systems and services auditing, and monitoring of virtualization platforms, and multitier application architectures
Implementing tools for logging, monitoring, scanning, runtime protection, secrets management, and policy enforcement of applications and servers
Refining and leveraging change control, source control, and configuration management technologies
Documenting standards, processes, and runbooks for enterprise systems
Leveraging knowledge and best practices to evaluate, select, and implement new technology, hardware, and software
Conducting security risk assessments for infrastructure changes
Implementing security automation and security as code practices
Performing threat modeling for infrastructure designs
Executing security patch management across hybrid environments
Configuring and maintaining security policies and controls (firewalls, IDS/IPS, WAF)
Implementing least privilege and role-based access controls (RBAC)
Implementing and maintaining identity and access controls (Microsoft EntraID, CAPs, MFA, SSO)
Performing user and enterprise credential management (Passkeys, enterprise password managers)
Implementing and maintain encryption services (PKI)
Providing exceptional customer service and communication (oral, written, technical presentations)
Company
Motus Recruiting and Staffing, Inc.
Founded in 2006, Motus Recruiting is an award-winning firm in the Pacific Northwest specializing in accounting and finance, professional services, technology solutions, and executive search.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Orlando Williams
Chief Executive Officer
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