Cloud Compliance Engineer

🇺🇸 Remote - California 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $111K - $161K 💻 Compliance 🗓️ November 2nd, 2026

Terraform Ansible SIEM

Edtech.com's Summary

University of California, Irvine is hiring a Cloud Compliance Engineer. The role involves independently administering and securing federal research compliant enclaves on AWS, ensuring continuous regulatory compliance and protection of Controlled Unclassified Information. The engineer evaluates evolving technical, security, and policy factors to maintain a secure cloud environment and supports cloud workload onboarding and compliance documentation.

Highlights

Administer and secure AWS cloud infrastructure for federal research compliance.
Maintain protection of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and manage cloud workload onboarding.
Use Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation, and configuration management tools like Ansible or Chef.
Apply advanced knowledge of AWS compute, storage, networking, and IAM services.
Develop compliance documents including System Security Plans and control assessments.
Experience with security practices such as identity and access management, network segmentation, encryption, vulnerability management, and system hardening.
Minimum of 5 years managing AWS cloud infrastructure in regulated or federally funded research environments.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, with preferred AWS certifications such as SysOps Administrator or Solutions Architect Associate.
Salary range is $111,300 to $161,200 annually with comprehensive benefits.
May require after-hours on-call support.