Practice - CIS - Cloud, Infrastructure, and Security Services
About Cloud Infrastructure & Security Services: Cognizant’s Cloud, Infrastructure, and Security Services Practice (CIS), is all about embracing digital transformation by driving core modernization holistically across layers. We help customers transform infrastructure and workplace to meet the rapidly evolving needs of the digital era. Our holistic approach delivers key results for our customers by achieving cloud driven modernization and workplace and operational transformation to run the business in a secure environment.
Job Summary
The Cloud Security Engineer performs security reviews of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services, Oracle SaaS platforms, and third-party SaaS solutions to ensure alignment with enterprise security standards, regulatory requirements, and risk management practices.
This role evaluates cloud and SaaS solutions across infrastructure, platform, application, and data layers, providing actionable security guidance to support secure-by-design adoption, governance, certification, and onboarding processes. The position also provides engineering support for OCI security capabilities and SaaS security governance programs, helping to establish security guardrails, automate controls, and improve consistency and scalability across cloud and SaaS environments.
*Please note, this role is not able to offer visa transfer or sponsorship now or in the future*
In this role, you will:
Cloud & SaaS Security Assessment
- Conduct security reviews of OCI services, SaaS applications, architectures, integrations, and configurations.
- Identify security risks, control gaps, and remediation opportunities.
- Evaluate solutions against enterprise security standards, policies, and regulatory requirements.
- Provide security guidance for secure deployment and adoption of cloud and SaaS services.
2. Security Standards & Governance
- Map OCI and SaaS implementations to enterprise controls and industry frameworks (NIST, ISO 27001, CSA CCM, CIS).
- Validate compliance with secure configuration baselines and reference architectures.
- Support development and maintenance of OCI and SaaS security standards, guardrails, and onboarding requirements.
- Assess new cloud and SaaS capabilities and provide security recommendations.
3. Cloud & SaaS Security Engineering
- Support implementation of OCI-native security controls and governance capabilities.
- Assist with security automation through Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) and policy-as-code frameworks.
- Support deployment and integration of security monitoring, posture management, and compliance capabilities.
- Partner with platform engineering teams to embed security into deployment and operational processes.
4. SaaS Security Governance
- Perform SaaS onboarding assessments and certification reviews.
- Evaluate SaaS architectures, integrations, data flows, and security controls.
- Conduct SaaS posture reviews and assess configuration drift, identity governance, and data protection controls.
- Support SaaS inventory management, Shadow IT discovery, and vendor security assessments.
5. Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
- Partner with cloud engineering, architecture, DevOps, security operations, compliance, procurement, and risk teams.
- Document findings, recommendations, and evidence to support governance and certification decisions.
- Provide security expertise during design reviews, onboarding activities, exception management, and remediation efforts.
What you need to have to be considered
- Cloud Assessment: Proven experience performing cloud security assessments within OCI or comparable cloud platforms.
- SaaS Governance: Experience conducting SaaS security reviews and certifications.
- Core Security Concepts: Strong understanding of:
- Identity & Access Management
- Network Security
- Data Protection
- Cloud Logging & Monitoring
- Container & Platform Security
- Tooling & Frameworks: Familiarity with OCI security services, SSPM platforms, CASB technologies, and cloud governance frameworks.
- Infrastructure as Code: Experience reviewing Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) and cloud architecture designs.
- Foundational Knowledge: Strong comprehension of cloud shared responsibility models and secure-by-design principles.
- Soft Skills: Strong written and verbal communication skills.
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Applications will be accepted until 15 Jul 2026.
Salary and Other Compensation:
The annual salary for this position is between $[114,500 - 134,000] depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.
Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
· Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
· Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
· 401(k) plan and contributions
· Long-term/Short-term Disability
· Paid Parental Leave
· Employee Stock Purchase Plan
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