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AWS Cloud Security Engineer

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. Help customers adopt the cloud and provide technical and strategic guidance .

Posted 11/2/2026full-timeNew York • United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in AWS Cloud Security, including hands-on experience with SCP and RCP authoring, Terraform, and Infrastructure-as-Code. Proficient in implementing security solutions and policies across various AWS services while providing strategic guidance and customer support.

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AWS Cloud Security EngineeringTerraform ExpertiseAWS Certified Security - SpecialtyPolicy-as-Code ImplementationCustomer-Facing Technical Consultation

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Hard Skills
AWS SCP AuthoringAWS RCP AuthoringInfrastructure-as-CodePython CodingVPC Endpoint PolicyAWS KMS PolicyIAM Policy EvaluationAutomation Tool DevelopmentSecurity Compliance SolutionsBlast-Radius Analysis
Soft Skills
Customer ConsultationKnowledge TransferThought Leadership
Tools & Technologies
AWS Control TowerAWS Security HubAWS GuardDutyAWS MacieAWS ConfigAWS InspectorAWS CloudTrailTerraformJenkinsGitLab
Certifications & Qualifications
AWS Certified Security - Specialty
Industry Keywords
Cloud Security SolutionsMulti-Account GovernancePolicy-as-CodeSecurity Threat AnalyticsCompliance Frameworks

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSCloudEC2JavaJenkinsPythonSplunkTerraformVault

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Help customers adopt the cloud and provide technical and strategic guidance
  • Consult, plan, design, and implement cloud security solutions
  • Design and automate security and compliance solutions
  • Serve as a deep technical resource for customers
  • Develop automation tools, reference architectures, white papers, technical briefs, and runbooks
  • Innovate on behalf of customers and translate ideas into measurable results
  • Provide customer feedback for technology roadmaps and recommend expanded capabilities
  • Assist with reference architecture implementations
  • Support thought leadership through blog posts and internal case studies
  • Author SCP and RCP policy rule sets in Terraform
  • Implement and deploy policies through Control Tower AFT pipelines
  • Test policies and conduct blast-radius analysis in sandbox environments
  • Deploy policies across Sandbox, NCZ, DPZ, and Critical Zone organizational units
  • Build VPC endpoint, S3, and KMS resource-based policies
  • Conduct knowledge transfer
  • Create self-service account, security threat analytics, dashboard, and compliance frameworks
  • Implement Security Hub, GuardDuty, Macie, AWS Config, Inspector, CloudTrail, and VPC Flow Logs
  • Develop Policy-as-Code controls, logical tests, playbooks, reports, and supporting sample code
  • Build continuous delivery pipelines for secure, repeatable AWS account provisioning

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Experienced AWS Cloud Security Engineer
  • Hands-on AWS SCP and RCP authoring experience
  • Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code expertise
  • AWS Organizations and multi-account governance experience
  • IAM Access Analyzer and IAM policy evaluation knowledge
  • VPC Endpoint, Amazon S3, and AWS KMS policy experience
  • AWS Certified Security - Specialty
  • AWS Control Tower AFT experience
  • Runbook authoring and knowledge transfer experience
  • Software/technology customer-facing experience
  • Must be able to code with Python
  • U.S. work authorization required
  • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship
  • Relevant technical tools and services experience including Python, Java, Bash, Jenkins, GitLab, Terraform, Vault, Git, Splunk, OWASP, Trend Micro, Palo Alto, Fortify, Twistlock, Aqua Security, and AWS services
  • Must support expertise across AWS services including Organizations, Control Tower, IAM, Security Hub, GuardDuty, Macie, Inspector, Config, CloudTrail, KMS, VPC, S3, Lambda, EC2, EKS, ECS, ECR, and related services

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Full-time employee status
  • Hybrid work arrangement
  • Equal opportunity employment