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# Cloud Security Engineer

- **Company:** Florida Blue
- **Location:** Jacksonville, FL, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $109,300.0 - $177,600.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing Security, Cyber Security, Continuous Integration, Identity and Access Management, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Key Management, Security Information and Event Management, Test Data, Data Logging, Cloud Platform System, Terraform
- **Published:** September 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/main/sendform/8/8/28176/1/18291199?backUrl=%2Fcareer%2F18291199%2FCloud-Security-Engineer-Florida-Jacksonville

## About the Role

* 6+ years related work experience in relevant information security, with 4+ years in cloud security engineering
 * Related Bachelor's degree required
 * Strong AWS/Azure IAM skills, including cross-account access and federation.
 * Hands-on Terraform.
 * Experience with cloud native security services in production.
 * Experience in an environment governed by HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, FedRAMP, or NIST 800-53.

What We Prefer

 * Healthcare payer experience. AWS/Azure Security Specialty, CCSP, or GIAC cloud security certification.
 * GovCloud and FedRAMP Moderate or High. Security engineering across two or more major cloud platforms.
 * SIEM integration and detection engineering. Privileged access management tooling.

## Description

The Cloud Security Engineer builds and operates the security controls embedded in GuideWell's cloud platforms as the company migrates infrastructure across commercial, GovCloud, and secondary cloud platforms. This role delivers preventive controls such as service control policies, IAM roles, and permission boundaries, and owns privileged access, key encryption architecture, secrets management, and the tuning of cloud security configuration services. The engineer builds the cloud logging pipeline feeding the security operations center, implements PHI data protection, and produces control evidence for HITRUST, HIPAA, SOC 2, and FedRAMP. This is a hands-on engineering role on the cloud platform team, working closely with the security organization that sets control standards.

What You Will Be Doing

 * Implement and maintain preventive controls: SCPs, IAM policy, permission boundaries, encryption, secrets
 * Configure, tune, and operate detective controls; drive findings to remediation
 * Build data protection controls for PHI, including lower-environment test data handling
 * Automate evidence collection and support audit and assessment cycles
 * Review application and vendor designs; respond to cloud security escalations
 * Build the cloud logging pipeline that feeds the security operations center.
 * Deliver controls through Terraform and CI/CD.
 * Produce control evidence for HITRUST, HIPAA, SOC 2, FedRAMP, and internal audit.
 * Manage encryption and KMS key architecture across accounts.


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