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Cloud Security Engineer roles qualify for EB-2 and EB-3 green card sponsorship through PERM labor certification, which requires your employer to document that no qualified U.S. worker is available for the position. Roles involving cloud infrastructure security, zero-trust architecture, and compliance frameworks consistently meet the specialty occupation threshold that supports permanent residency sponsorship.
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- Design and implement enterprise identity solutions leveraging Okta Workforce Identity Cloud services.
- Lead application onboarding using SAML, OIDC/OAuth, SCIM provisioning, federation, and lifecycle management.
- Thoroughly understands and ensures authentication, MFA, and access management patterns are followed. Maintains improved security and user experience.
- Partner with cloud and platform engineering teams to integrate identity controls across enterprise platforms and cloud environments.
- Develop automation solutions using APIs, scripting, workflows, and CI/CD pipelines to improve scalability and reduce manual effort.
- Automate operational processes, platform governance controls, application onboarding activities, and compliance reporting.
- Identifies opportunities for platform engineering best practices including GitHub-based CI/CD deployment models, testing strategies, release management, and configuration standardization.
- Continuously evaluate emerging technologies and capabilities to improve scalability, reliability, security, and operational effectiveness.
- Thoroughly understand platform resiliency initiatives include disaster recovery planning, service continuity testing, monitoring, observability, and operational readiness reviews.
- Participate in production support and critical incident response while driving permanent engineering solutions that eliminate recurring operational issues.
- Lead root cause analysis activities and implement preventative controls to improve platform stability.
- Establish and maintain monitoring, alerting, and operational dashboards that provide visibility into platform health and key performance indicators.
- Support audit readiness through controls, governance practices, documentation, and evidence management.
- Manage production changes, platform upgrades, vulnerability remediation, and operational support.
- Identify opportunities to adopt new capabilities that strengthen security, reliability, and efficiency.
- Lead complex initiatives across cybersecurity, cloud, infrastructure, and application teams.
- Influence architecture decisions, engineering standards, and platform roadmaps through strong technical expertise and stakeholder engagement.
- Mentor engineers, promote knowledge sharing, and strengthen team capability through coaching and technical guidance.
- Drive measurable improvements in automation, onboarding velocity, platform resiliency, audit readiness, and operational effectiveness.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of broad experience working on large-scale systems or services, Cloud Security Engineering, Identity Platform Engineering, Identity and Access Management or related disciplines.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Extensive hands-on experience with AWS.
- Strong experience with:
- AWS services including Lambda and Secrets Manager
- SAML 2.0, OIDC/OAuth 2.0, SCIM
- APIs, Application Sign-On Policies/Patterns
- CI/CD pipelines, GitHub-based delivery, and scripting
- Identity lifecycle management and federation design
- Splunk/syslog analysis, ability to troubleshoot complex authentication issues
- Incident management, root cause analysis, and production support
- Technical leadership and strategic thinking
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Executive and stakeholder communication
- Driving outcomes through ambiguity
- Incident leadership and operational excellence
- Continuous improvement and production change leadership
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code preferred
- Okta Certified Professional preferred
- Knowledge of FastPass, Device Assurance preferred
- Directory services preferred
Special Factors
Sponsorship
Vanguard is offering visa sponsorship for this position.
About Vanguard
At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.
To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.
How We Work
Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement enterprise identity solutions leveraging Okta Workforce Identity Cloud services.
- Lead application onboarding using SAML, OIDC/OAuth, SCIM provisioning, federation, and lifecycle management.
- Thoroughly understands and ensures authentication, MFA, and access management patterns are followed. Maintains improved security and user experience.
- Partner with cloud and platform engineering teams to integrate identity controls across enterprise platforms and cloud environments.
- Develop automation solutions using APIs, scripting, workflows, and CI/CD pipelines to improve scalability and reduce manual effort.
- Automate operational processes, platform governance controls, application onboarding activities, and compliance reporting.
- Identifies opportunities for platform engineering best practices including GitHub-based CI/CD deployment models, testing strategies, release management, and configuration standardization.
- Continuously evaluate emerging technologies and capabilities to improve scalability, reliability, security, and operational effectiveness.
- Thoroughly understand platform resiliency initiatives include disaster recovery planning, service continuity testing, monitoring, observability, and operational readiness reviews.
- Participate in production support and critical incident response while driving permanent engineering solutions that eliminate recurring operational issues.
- Lead root cause analysis activities and implement preventative controls to improve platform stability.
- Establish and maintain monitoring, alerting, and operational dashboards that provide visibility into platform health and key performance indicators.
- Support audit readiness through controls, governance practices, documentation, and evidence management.
- Manage production changes, platform upgrades, vulnerability remediation, and operational support.
- Identify opportunities to adopt new capabilities that strengthen security, reliability, and efficiency.
- Lead complex initiatives across cybersecurity, cloud, infrastructure, and application teams.
- Influence architecture decisions, engineering standards, and platform roadmaps through strong technical expertise and stakeholder engagement.
- Mentor engineers, promote knowledge sharing, and strengthen team capability through coaching and technical guidance.
- Drive measurable improvements in automation, onboarding velocity, platform resiliency, audit readiness, and operational effectiveness.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of broad experience working on large-scale systems or services, Cloud Security Engineering, Identity Platform Engineering, Identity and Access Management or related disciplines.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Extensive hands-on experience with AWS.
- Strong experience with:
- AWS services including Lambda and Secrets Manager
- SAML 2.0, OIDC/OAuth 2.0, SCIM
- APIs, Application Sign-On Policies/Patterns
- CI/CD pipelines, GitHub-based delivery, and scripting
- Identity lifecycle management and federation design
- Splunk/syslog analysis, ability to troubleshoot complex authentication issues
- Incident management, root cause analysis, and production support
- Technical leadership and strategic thinking
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Executive and stakeholder communication
- Driving outcomes through ambiguity
- Incident leadership and operational excellence
- Continuous improvement and production change leadership
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code preferred
- Okta Certified Professional preferred
- Knowledge of FastPass, Device Assurance preferred
- Directory services preferred
Special Factors
Sponsorship
Vanguard is offering visa sponsorship for this position.
About Vanguard
At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.
To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.
How We Work
Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as a Cloud Security Engineer
Document your cloud certifications strategically
PERM petitions for Cloud Security Engineers often hinge on the degree-job nexus. Certifications like CCSP, CISSP, or AWS Security Specialty don't replace a bachelor's degree, but they strengthen the EB-2 specialty occupation argument when your degree field doesn't directly map to security.
Target employers with active PERM filing history
Search OFLC disclosure data to identify employers who have filed PERM applications for Cloud Security Engineer or related SOC codes. Past filings signal an established sponsorship workflow, which cuts negotiation time once you receive an offer.
Use Migrate Mate to find green card sponsoring roles
Filter your Cloud Security Engineer job search by employers with verified green card sponsorship history. Migrate Mate surfaces roles where PERM sponsorship is confirmed, so you're not guessing at employer willingness mid-process.
Clarify the EB-2 versus EB-3 path before accepting an offer
If your role requires an advanced degree or you can demonstrate specialized expertise, push for EB-2 classification. EB-3 has slower priority date movement for India and China nationals, so the category filed can affect your wait by years, not months.
Request the prevailing wage determination early
Your employer must file a Prevailing Wage Determination with DOL before starting PERM. Use the OFLC Wage Search to benchmark your offer against Level I through Level IV wages for cloud security roles in your metro area before negotiations close.
Protect your status during the I-485 waiting period
Once your I-140 is approved and your priority date is current, you can file to adjust status. If your I-485 has been pending for 180 days, AC21 portability lets you change employers without restarting PERM, provided the new role is in the same or similar occupational classification.
Green Card Cloud Security Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Cloud Security Engineer role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
Cloud Security Engineer positions typically qualify for both EB-2 and EB-3 depending on how your employer structures the job requirements. EB-2 applies when the role requires a master's degree or the equivalent in education plus experience. EB-3 covers positions requiring a bachelor's degree as the minimum, which describes most cloud security postings. Your employer's attorneys will determine the classification based on the actual duties and requirements listed in the PERM application.
How does PERM green card sponsorship differ from H-1B for Cloud Security Engineers?
H-1B visa is a temporary work visa subject to an annual lottery cap, while PERM is the first stage of permanent residency with no annual cap at the EB-3 level for most nationalities. PERM requires your employer to run a supervised recruitment process demonstrating no qualified U.S. worker is available. The full PERM-to-green card timeline typically runs two to four years for most nationals, but it leads to permanent status rather than a visa requiring repeated renewal.
What does the PERM recruitment process look like for a Cloud Security Engineer position?
Your employer must post the Cloud Security Engineer role using DOL-mandated recruitment steps, including print advertisements, job postings, and internal notices, over a 30-day supervised recruitment window. If no qualified U.S. applicant accepts the position, the employer files the ETA 9089 form with DOL. USCIS then adjudicates the I-140 immigrant petition once PERM is certified. The job duties and requirements in those ads become binding, so the role description should match your actual work.
How do I find Cloud Security Engineer jobs where employers are willing to sponsor a green card?
Search specifically for employers with documented PERM filing history for security roles rather than relying on job postings that mention sponsorship vaguely. Migrate Mate filters Cloud Security Engineer roles by verified green card sponsorship history, so you can focus your applications on employers who have already run the PERM process for similar positions, which significantly reduces the risk of a sponsorship conversation falling apart after an offer.
Can I change employers while my green card application is in progress?
Yes, under AC21 portability you can change employers after your I-485 adjustment of status application has been pending for at least 180 days and your I-140 has been approved. The new role must be in the same or a similar occupational classification as the one your PERM was filed under. Cloud security roles with overlapping duties and the same SOC code typically qualify, but you'll want USCIS to confirm portability before resigning from your current employer.