Ensures cloud workloads meet regulatory and security frameworks (ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR).
Entry
Intermediate
Coding
Medium
Key skills
Career overview
The Cloud Compliance Engineer maps controls to cloud reality: CIS benchmarks, encryption, logging, identity, data residency and audit evidence. They translate frameworks like ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA or GDPR into concrete guardrails and IaC policy. The role blends security, governance and cloud engineering, and it leads toward cloud or security architecture.
Main responsibilities
- Ensure compliance with standards and regulations
- Manage governance, risk and compliance
- Secure cloud identities, network and data
- Design and operate identity and access management
- Keep technical documentation up to date
- Assess and treat information security risks
- Prepare and execute change requests in production
- Recommend hardening and remediation actions
- Monitor platform health, alerts and dashboards
- Coordinate with software vendors and third parties
Technical skills
Technologies
Education level
Education requirements vary depending on the company, country and experience. Professional experience, certifications and technical skills can sometimes compensate for formal education.
High School / Bac
Less common
Bac+2 (2-year degree)
Less common
Bac+3 (Bachelor)
Common entry point
Bac+5 (Master / Engineering)
Common entry point
Experience & coding level
Experience level
Coding level
Useful certifications
Certifications are never mandatory. They are one way among others to prove a skill.
- ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
- AWS Security Specialty
- CISA
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Soft skills
- Rigour and attention to detail
- Ethics and integrity
- Analytical thinking
- Clear communication
- Documentation writing
- Organisation
- Stakeholder management
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