Cloud & Application Security Engineer (Hybrid)

Ready to Love Your Job?   

Texas Roadhouse is looking for legendary, passionate Roadies to join our Support Center team in Louisville, KY. If you’re ready to bring your energy, partnership, and heart to a place where fun meets purpose, you’ve come to the right place. Come see why our Roadies love their jobs!   

Why This Role Rocks
Step into a high‑impact role where you’ll be shaping the security foundation of modern cloud environments and next‑generation applications. As a Cloud & Application Security Engineer, you’ll design and implement cutting‑edge security controls, harden cloud workloads, collaborate with talented engineering teams, and champion secure development practices across the organization. If you love cloud security, DevSecOps, and staying ahead of emerging threats, this role puts you right at the center of innovation.

What’s On Your Plate
Cloud & Application Security

• Build and maintain security controls across cloud platforms (Azure preferred)—IAM, networking, logging, monitoring, container security, workload protection, and more.

• Partner with developers to embed security into the SDLC (secure coding, code reviews, dependency scanning, automated testing).

• Perform threat modeling and deliver actionable remediation guidance.

• Manage and optimize application and API security tools such as WAFs (Cloudflare preferred), API gateways, secret management, and cloud‑native security solutions.

• Support secure architecture design for cloud apps, microservices, containers, serverless, and PaaS workloads.

Vulnerability Management, Monitoring & Incident Response

• Conduct vulnerability assessments and penetration testing across cloud workloads, applications, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Monitor and analyze events through SIEM, CSPM, CWPP, and other threat‑detection platforms.

• Respond to cloud/application security incidents and assist with forensic analysis.

• Continuously strengthen automated security controls within CI/CD and cloud platforms.

Governance, Risk & Compliance

• Develop and maintain security policies, standards, and reference architectures.

• Conduct posture reviews, configuration assessments, and risk evaluations.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Work closely with engineering, DevOps, architecture, and product teams to ensure secure solution delivery.

• Mentor junior cybersecurity team members.

• Stay ahead of emerging cloud threats, application security trends, and new technologies.

Your Recipe for Success

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or equivalent experience.

• Preferred: ISCCSP, GIAC (GCSA/GCLD), OSCP, CISSP, CCSK, or other advanced security certifications.

• 3+ years in cloud security, application security, DevSecOps, or related engineering roles.

• Strong hands-on experience with Azure security (Azure AD, Defender for Cloud, Key Vault, NSGs, App Gateway, etc.).

• Solid understanding of SDLC, secure coding, OWASP Top 10, and security tooling (SAST/DAST/IAST, dependency scanning).

• Experience securing CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins).

• Familiarity with container and Kubernetes security.

• Background in cloud/app security assessments, threat modeling, and code review.

• Ability to analyze logs and telemetry for cloud and application environments.

• Knowledge of IaC security (Terraform, Bicep, ARM).

• Availability: Must be able to support occasional evening or weekend overtime as needed.

Preferred Skills

• CSPM tools

• WAF and API security platforms

• Container and serverless security tooling

• SIEM and cloud-native threat detection

• Secure coding and SDLC tooling

• PowerShell and Python automation

• Experience with ServiceNow or similar ITSM systems

Why You'll Love Your Job:    

As our founder Kent Taylor said, “We’re a people-first company that just happens to serve steaks.” We believe in taking care of the whole Roadie: from professional development opportunities to a robust benefits package. Our culture is just one reason why many of our leaders started as servers, managers, and line cooks, and have grown Legendary careers with us. Here’s a taste of what we offer:  

• Best-in-class benefits including medical, dental, vision, and 100% paid maternity leave  

• Generous time off including vacation, parental, donor, and bereavement leave  

• Wellness perks like on-site personal trainers, massages, a full gym, and a registered nurse  

• Convenience services like car detailing, dry cleaning, and even spray tans  

• Financial support with 401(k), tuition reimbursement, stock units, and holiday bonuses  

• Delicious perks from Willie’s Joynt—our full-service café serving up legendary meals  

Support Center employees who meet benefit eligibility receive a comprehensive total rewards package starting the first day of the month after 31 days of employment.   

This job description includes essential functions and basic duties and is intended to provide guidelines for job expectations and the employee's ability to perform the position described. It is not an exhaustive list of all functions, responsibilities, skills, and abilities. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by supervisors as appropriate. This document is not a contract of employment, and the Company reserves the right to change this job description and/or assign tasks for the employee to perform, as the Company may deem appropriate.  

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, gender, pregnancy, gender identity, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, citizenship, national origin, or any other legally-protected status. We encourage and welcome all applicants to apply.