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Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in designing and implementing enterprise-scale controls using AWS, CloudFormation, and Terraform, while mentoring engineering teams on best practices and technical standards. Proficient in automating security posture checks and integrating controls into CI/CD pipelines to enhance cloud security and compliance.
Highest-signal resume keywords
AWS ExpertiseInfrastructure-As-Code ExperienceCloudFormation ProficiencyPolicy-As-Code ImplementationTechnical Mentorship
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Hard Skills
Python ProgrammingCloudFormationTerraformAWS IAM Policy MechanicsEvent-Driven RemediationCI/CD IntegrationPolicy Pipelines DesignTroubleshooting Complex IssuesAutomated Controls EngineeringSecurity Strategy Translation
Soft Skills
MentoringInfluencing Technical DirectionProblem SolvingCollaboration
Tools & Technologies
AWSGCPAzureCSPMCNAPP
Certifications & Qualifications
AWS Security SpecialtyProfessional-Level AWS Certification
Industry Keywords
Cloud SecurityRegulated EnvironmentsAudit RequirementsTechnical Design ReviewsPreventive Controls
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformPythonTerraform
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead technical design reviews and own standards for building, testing, and shipping controls
- Train, mentor, and coach engineers and new crew on technology standards, best practices, and frameworks
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues escalated from staff
- Influence engineering patterns and technical direction across teams without direct authority
- Design enterprise-scale policy pipelines, event-driven remediation, and API contracts
- Evaluate and select tooling, frameworks, and integration patterns for controls and enterprise infrastructure
- Build preventive and detective controls as code using CloudFormation and/or Terraform and Rego/OPA
- Embed controls into CI/CD pipelines and runtime configuration checks
- Decide whether controls should break builds or detect and alert
- Automate posture checks, drift detection, and event-driven remediation
- Engineer AWS organization-scale controls, including SCPs, RCPs, permission boundaries, resource/identity policies, and CI/CD guardrails
- Operationalize CSPM/CNAPP findings into automated controls
- Translate security strategy, audit requirements, and risk priorities into technical work
- Measure control coverage and effectiveness
- Support privileged access controls, cloud account governance, audit responses, remediation, on-call rotation, and special projects
Requirements
What you’ll need- Minimum of seven years related work experience
- Four or more years in cloud or security engineering preferred
- Production-grade coding experience in Python or equivalent
- Heavy hands-on infrastructure-as-code experience, with CloudFormation day to day; Terraform a plus
- Hands-on expertise in AWS, GCP, or Azure; AWS strongly preferred
- Experience with org-wide account structures, landing zones, and cross-account security patterns at scale
- Track record of leading complex technical delivery, setting standards, mentoring engineers, and influencing technical direction across teams without direct authority
- Ability to reason about trust boundaries, least privilege, and blast radius
- Experience with AWS IAM policy mechanics, including inline, customer-managed, permission boundaries, SCPs, RCPs, and resource/identity policies; depth is learnable on the job
- Experience working with engineering teams on policy-as-code, CI/CD integrations, code repositories and pipelines, and cloud security tooling
- Experience operating in regulated or audit-driven environments
- Relevant certification such as AWS Security Specialty or Professional-level AWS certification is a plus, not required
- Undergraduate degree in a related field or equivalent combination of training and experience
- No visa sponsorship available
Benefits
Comp & perks- Hybrid working model enabling flexibility, in-person learning, collaboration, and connection
- Learning and development opportunities
- On-call rotation participation