Systems Engineer - Cloud Ops Security

What’s The Role

We are looking for a highly motivated Systems Engineer – Cloud Security who will be responsible for managing and executing control operations across enterprise cloud platforms, including Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and foundational platform services such as SQL IaaS Managed Services and Cloud Connectivity Platforms.

This role ensures operational excellence, risk governance, and platform security across the enterprise cloud ecosystem.

What You’ll Be Doing

Control Operations & Governance

• Take end-to-end ownership of the control operations scope, including timely execution of controls, evidence collection, archival, and reporting.
• Document and track risk observations, drive remediation plans, and ensure closure within required timelines.
• Ensure all cloud platform controls are well understood, implemented correctly, and delivered on time.
• Engineer governance guardrails and policy-as-code controls to enforce continuous compliance, security baselines, and platform standards across cloud environments.
  
  

Risk Assessment & Compliance

• Support and lead risk assessments related to enterprise cloud services by engaging with relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure risks are assessed, recorded, mitigated, and monitored appropriately.
• Maintain an audit-ready environment at all times, supporting periodic internal and external audits.
• Respond promptly to audit queries and ensure zero control non-compliance.
  
  

Vulnerability Management

• Manage vulnerability tracking and remediation for all enterprise cloud service platforms.
• Notify stakeholders of identified vulnerabilities, follow up on remediation actions, and ensure closure within SLA.
• Monitor vulnerability trends, report and drive continuous reduction of security exposure.
  
  

Automation, Optimization & Control Rationalization

• Drive and execute engineering activities to automate, optimize, and rationalize controls, ensuring robust and scalable solutions are designed and implemented
• Contribute to enhancement of control-related processes and governance.
• Ensure platform changes meet reliability, security, and compliance requirements before rollout.
  
  

Security Configuration & Platform Hardening

• Support implementation of cloud security technical configurations to ensure platforms remain secure, compliant, and reliable.
• Partner with internal teams, platform DevOps and stakeholders to maintain consistent security baselines.
• Support implementation and maintain comprehensive observability across cloud platforms by engineering solutions to monitor, logging, metrics, and alerting to ensure reliability and actionable insights
  
  

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s in Technology or related degree with minimum 5 years’ hands-on experience with of Azure and AWS cloud platforms
• Understanding of cloud native security services (e.g., Azure Defender, Azure Policy, AWS Security Hub, AWS IAM, GuardDuty, etc.).
• Working knowledge of cloud compliance frameworks and control design and operations.
• Experience in risk assessment, control execution, evidence management, and audit readiness.
• Experience with vulnerability management processes and tools.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
  
  

Good to Have

• Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) or AWS Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) certifications.
• Exposure to enterprise cloud governance, automation tooling, or security engineering practices.
• CRISC – Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control
• CISM – Certified Information Security Manager
  
  

Personal Attributes

• Detail-oriented with a strong sense of ownership.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Proactive in identifying risks and driving timely remediation.
  
  

What We Offer

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You’ll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.

• Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.
• Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.
• Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.
• Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.
• Achieve your balance in a value-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.
• Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.
• Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance related salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are among the best in the world.
• Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.
• Join an organization to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.
• Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and international teams.
• Gain access to a wide range of training and development programs.
  
  

We'd like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world’s most diverse and inclusive companies. You can get to know more about how we're working towards that goal, click here.

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