About The Position
Designs, implements, and continuously improves AWS security architecture. Partners with cloud engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, Risk & Compliance, and product teams to build secure-by-default patterns, guardrails, and automation that enable delivery velocity without compromising security. Influences cloud security strategy while providing hands-on architectural and engineering support.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field required. Equivalent, directly relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- 7+ years of experience in cloud architecture and security, including leading cloud security programs or large-scale AWS transformations.
- Hands-on expertise with AWS security services and controls, including Organizations, Control Tower, IAM/IAM Identity Center, KMS, Security Hub, GuardDuty, Detective, Macie, WAF/Shield, AWS Network Firewall, CloudTrail, Config, CloudWatch, VPC, Route 53, ECS, and Secrets Manager/Parameter Store.
- Strong background in cloud identity and Zero Trust patterns, including workload identity, JIT access, break-glass design, and ABAC where appropriate.
- Experience securing data at scale, including classification, DLP, tokenization, and access governance.
- Deep understanding of networking and isolation patterns, including multi-region architectures, hybrid connectivity, egress controls, private endpoints, and service-to-service authentication.
- Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools (Terraform, Python/Bash, policy-as-code).
- Experience with container and serverless security, including ECS hardening, image attestations, runtime controls, and least-privilege Lambda patterns.
- Detection engineering experience, including logging strategies, detections-as-code, and SIEM/SOAR integration.
- Familiarity with incident response and security investigations.
- Strong governance, risk, and compliance knowledge with the ability to map controls to CIS, NIST, ISO, PCI, and HIPAA frameworks (as applicable).
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce concise design documentation and provide actionable guidance to engineering teams.
- Ability to manage priorities effectively in a fast-changing environment.
- Comfortable working in a remote or hybrid environment with limited in-person interaction.
- Willingness to participate in virtual meetings with camera enabled.
- Ability to travel periodically for in-person collaboration on key initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Design secure reference architectures and reusable security patterns for AWS workloads, including identity, networking, encryption, logging, monitoring, and secrets management.
- Implement and operate enterprise AWS guardrails using Organizations, Control Tower, SCPs, AWS Config (managed and custom rules), Security Hub, GuardDuty, Detective, Macie, WAF/Shield, and AWS Network Firewall.
- Apply least-privilege IAM using roles, permission boundaries, session policies, IAM Identity Center, SAML/OIDC federation, and ABAC/RBAC where appropriate.
- Use IAM Access Analyzer and automated validation to identify and reduce risk.
- Design secure VPC architectures, including subnet strategy, private endpoints, NAT and egress controls, Transit Gateway, Route 53, DNS Firewall, centralized ingress/egress, and service-to-service authentication.
- Establish detection-as-code and telemetry standards using CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, Route 53, RDS, ALB/NLB, and S3 access logs; integrate detections with SIEM/SOAR platforms.
- Support incident response through detections, playbooks, and tabletop exercises.
- Embed security into CI/CD pipelines using policy-as-code, Terraform checks, container and image scanning, SBOMs, and pre-commit hooks.
- Automate remediation and drift detection using Lambda, Step Functions, and Terraform.
- Map technical controls to security frameworks including CIS AWS Foundations, NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, and HIPAA (as applicable).
- Conduct threat modeling (e.g., STRIDE) and risk assessments and drive remediation to closure.
- Review designs, provide architectural guidance, and produce clear documentation and runbooks.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision
- 401(k) with company match
- Unlimited Flex Time Off
- 10 company-paid holidays
- Monthly communication stipend
- Professional development programs
- Tuition assistance
- Quarterly book program
- Free wellness coaching
- Pet insurance
- Home office equipment stipend
- Employee resource groups
- Exclusive employee discounts
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
