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Cloud Security Engineer

IBM

Other Engineering

California, USA · Texas City, TX, USA

Posted on Dec 24, 2025

Introduction

At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world.

Your role and responsibilities

At HashiCorp, An IBM Company, we’re on a mission to enable organizations to provision, secure, connect, and run any infrastructure for any application. Our security team plays a critical role in this mission by ensuring the security and integrity of our cloud environments and services.

We are looking for a Cloud Security Engineer to help scale our cloud security posture management and infrastructure security functions, providing innovative solutions across HashiCorp’s suite of industry-leading products delivered as cloud, self-managed, and community offerings.

Security at HashiCorp is a global team, and we value individuals who thrive with autonomy while collaborating effectively across engineering, product, and security teams.

Responsibilities

Design and implement solutions that strengthen the security posture of HashiCorp’s cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP and more).
Monitor and respond to cloud security threats and vulnerabilities, develop mitigations, and communicate associated risks to stakeholders.
Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) on cloud security best practices, including IAM, network security, container security, and workload protection.
Contribute to the development and maintenance of security tooling and automation for cloud environments, including CI/CD integrations and vulnerability management systems.
Research emerging cloud attack vectors and techniques, helping identify potential threats to HashiCorp’s infrastructure and services.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement security standards and participate in architecture reviews for cloud deployments.

Required education

High School Diploma/GED

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Good understanding of cloud security principles and experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code security (Terraform, etc.).
Knowledge of container security and Kubernetes hardening.
Experience with vulnerability management and remediation in cloud environments.
Good written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence and educate engineering teams.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Experience with Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) tools; Wiz experience is a plus.
Familiarity with other CSPM or CNAPP solutions (e.g., Prisma Cloud, Lacework, Orca).
Knowledge of security automation and scripting (Python, Go).
Exposure to identity and access management (IAM) design and zero-trust principles.
Understanding of compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP) and cloud governance.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

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