Jobs → Engineering → Cloud Security Engineer

About the Role We are seeking a Cloud Security Engineer to join our team for a 12-month contract. This role involves implementing and maintaining AWS security controls, monitoring security alerts, and supporting compliance audits. Key Responsibilities • Implement and maintain AWS security controls and configurations • Monitor and investigate security alerts across AWS security services and SIEM platforms • Perform IAM administration and enforce least-privilege access • Remediate vulnerabilities and address security assessment findings • Support AWS compliance audits, security reviews, and governance activities • Manage AWS Config rules and review resources against security baselines • Assist with security incident investigations and evidence collection • Support patching, security monitoring, and operational security activities • Assist with infrastructure deployments using Terraform and CloudFormation • Maintain security documentation, standards, and operational procedures Requirements • 5+ years of overall IT experience • 3+ years of hands-on AWS cloud infrastructure and application experience • Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, including servers, storage, networking, databases, applications, and security • Hands-on AWS experience with EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, and Lambda • AWS security services: IAM, Control Tower, Security Hub, GuardDuty, AWS Config, CloudTrail, KMS, and Secrets Manager • IAM administration, including users, roles, permissions, and least-privilege access • Security monitoring and alert investigation using GuardDuty, Security Hub, CloudWatch, and SIEM tools • Vulnerability management and remediation using AWS Inspector and security assessments • AWS compliance, audit support, security reviews, and governance controls • Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and CloudFormation • Linux administration and troubleshooting • Basic networking concepts, firewalls, VPCs, and security groups • Scripting with Python, PowerShell, or Bash