Cloud & Security Engineer

Novacis Digital is hiring a Senior Cloud / Security Engineer to design, secure, automate, and operate cloud infrastructure for enterprise healthcare, AI, and digital technology workloads. This hybrid role in Atlanta, GA supports Microsoft Azure and/or AWS environments, partnering closely with software, data, AI, architecture, and security teams to deliver reliable, compliant, and scalable cloud platforms. Enjoy a competitive salary and comprehensive health and dental benefits, plus paid time off and vision insurance.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate secure cloud infrastructure in Microsoft Azure and/or AWS for enterprise healthcare applications.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, or equivalent tooling, including reusable modules and controlled promotion across environments.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar platforms.
• Deploy and manage containerized workloads using Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-native services such as AKS and EKS.
• Apply DevSecOps security controls, including SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, container scanning, secrets detection, policy-as-code, and vulnerability remediation.
• Engineer secure cloud networking with VNets/VPCs, subnets, routing, private endpoints, load balancers, DNS, firewalls, VPNs, and certificate management.
• Implement identity and access controls using Microsoft Entra ID, Azure RBAC, AWS IAM, managed identities, key management, and least-privilege principles.
• Establish centralized logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, security monitoring, and operational dashboards.
• Support patching, backup, disaster recovery, capacity planning, cost optimization, incident response, and root-cause analysis.
• Maintain architecture diagrams, security documentation, operating procedures, deployment standards, and environment configuration baselines.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, DevSecOps, Security Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure and/or AWS in production environments.
• Strong experience with Terraform or equivalent Infrastructure as Code tooling.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, AKS/EKS, container registries, ingress, and workload deployment.
• Strong CI/CD experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar tools.
• Strong understanding of Linux, networking, DNS, TLS/certificates, load balancing, storage, compute, and core cloud security fundamentals.
• Experience with Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar scripting and automation languages.
• Experience implementing IAM, RBAC, secrets management, key management, secure configuration, and vulnerability management.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and cross-functional communication skills.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Azure Government, AWS GovCloud, FedRAMP-aligned environments, or government cloud workloads.
• Knowledge of NIST 800-53, FISMA, Zero Trust, HIPAA, SOC 2, or similar security and compliance frameworks.
• Experience supporting healthcare, federal, AI/ML, intelligent document processing, data analytics, or case management platforms.
• Experience with observability and security tooling such as Azure Monitor, Application Insights, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, or SIEM tooling.
• Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, or cybersecurity certifications.

Required/Relevant Technologies

Microsoft Azure, AWS, Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Docker, Kubernetes, AKS, EKS, SAST, DAST, policy-as-code, VNets, VPCs, private endpoints, load balancers, DNS, firewalls, VPNs, certificate management, Microsoft Entra ID, Azure RBAC, AWS IAM, managed identities, key management, least-privilege, Linux, TLS/certificates, Python, Bash, PowerShell, centralized logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, security monitoring, disaster recovery, incident response, root-cause analysis, and architecture diagrams.

What Novacis Digital Values

• A security-first and automation-first engineering mindset with strong ownership of production environments.
• Ability to translate security and reliability requirements into repeatable cloud engineering controls.
• Sound judgment balancing security, performance, availability, maintainability, and cost.
• Strong collaboration with software, AI, data, architecture, compliance, and program teams.