Senior Cloud Security Engineer – SRE

Matlen Silver provides a platform where experienced cybersecurity and cloud professionals can shape enterprise cloud modernization while working hands-on with leading technologies. This onsite Georgia contract role offers a competitive hourly rate and the chance to influence multi‑cloud security, IAM governance, and reliability engineering across AWS and Azure.

Benefits

• Health, vision, and dental insurance
• 401(k) plan (employee contributions only)

Location: Georgia (onsite) • Compensation: USD 85 - 95 per hour • Contract type: Contract

Responsibilities

• Lead Terraform automation development and module provisioning
• Operate and manage EKS and Kubernetes clusters
• Drive multi‑cloud security engineering across AWS and Azure
• Advance Zero Trust IAM governance and compliance
• Implement CI/CD automation and GitOps pipelines
• Improve observability across systems
• Design and implement high availability architecture for enterprise cloud modernization
• Harden Kubernetes clusters including security hardening, pod security, and RBAC

Requirements

• 6+ years in security, cybersecurity, IAM or access management
• 6+ years expert Terraform experience including modules and EKS provisioning
• Strong EKS Kubernetes clusters experience with autoscaling, networking, RBAC and security
• 14+ years in cloud infrastructure, DevOps or SRE
• Deep AWS experience covering EC2, S3, EKS, IAM, networking and serverless
• Strong Azure IaaS experience including VNets, NSGs, VPN Gateways, routing, DNS and Traffic Manager
• GitOps CI/CD with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or CircleCI
• Security‑first mindset including secrets management, encryption, patching and remediation
• Solid understanding of GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS
• Advanced Docker, Kubernetes networking, pod security and cluster hardening
• Automation with Python, Go, Bash or Ruby
• Configuration management with Terraform, Ansible or Chef
• Strong networking fundamentals including DNS, load balancing, firewalls and VPNs
• Observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog or New Relic
• Incident response, root cause analysis automation, performance tuning and reliability engineering
• Deep knowledge of SLO/SLA, scalability, resilience and high availability

Technologies

• Terraform
• AWS
• Azure
• EKS
• Kubernetes
• GitHub Actions
• GitLab CI
• Jenkins
• CircleCI
• Docker
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Datadog
• New Relic
• Ansible
• Chef
• Python
• Go
• Bash
• Ruby

Project details

The assignment centers on enterprise cloud modernization with Terraform automation, production EKS operations, and multi‑cloud security hardening. It encompasses GitOps pipelines, Zero Trust IAM governance, and reliability engineering across AWS and Azure.

Desired skills

• HashiCorp Vault
• Advanced Terraform module design
• GCP exposure
• Zero Trust Architecture
• Enterprise modernization experience

About Matlen Silver

Experience matters. For more than 40 years, Matlen Silver has delivered talent and technology solutions to Fortune 500 companies and industry leaders. Built on a foundation of hard work, integrity, and a trusted team of experts, Matlen Silver has fostered a solutions-centric approach that shapes how organizations operate and grow.