Cloud Security Engineer
Full-time
US
Oct 25, 2026
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About the Role
Job Family: Software Development & Support Travel Required: Up to 10% Clearance Required: Ability to Obtain Public Trust What You Will Do: Design, implement, and maintain security controls across AWS cloud environments. Safeguard cloud workloads by applying best practices for identity management, monitoring, threat detection, and secure operations. Develop secure AWS architectures using services such as IAM, KMS, CloudTrail, Config, and supporting monitoring tools such as Sentry and Datadog. Implement centralized logging, monitoring, alerting, threat modeling, vulnerability scanning, and penetration testing practices. Ensure AWS environments align with applicable security and compliance frameworks, including CIS Benchmarks, NIST, HIPAA, FedRAMP, and SOC 2. Support incident detection, investigation, and response while maintaining audit trails across AWS accounts and services. Automate security controls and compliance checks using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation. Integrate security into CI/CD pipelines and collaborate with engineering teams to enable secure build and deployment processes. What You Will Need: U.S. Citizenship or Green Card required, with the ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance. Bachelor’s degree in computer science, cybersecurity, engineering, or a related field; four additional years of relevant experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree. Minimum 6 years of relevant experience in cloud security, cybersecurity