AWS Security Engineer

About the role

This role covers cloud security operations for AWS environments, including monitoring alerts and configurations, reviewing security settings, supporting vulnerability remediation and taking part in incident investigations. It supports development, testing and production cloud environments.

Key responsibilities

• Monitor and review cloud security alerts, vulnerabilities and configuration non-compliance.
• Perform security configuration reviews and recommend remediation.
• Manage and review firewall, WAF, Security Group and network-security configurations.
• Support vulnerability remediation and verification.
• Perform cloud workload and infrastructure security hardening.
• Support security-log onboarding and troubleshooting.
• Participate in cybersecurity incident investigation, containment and remediation.
• Maintain security configurations, operational documentation and audit evidence.

Required profile

• Strong experience in AWS cloud security operations.
• Experience supporting DEV, UAT and Production cloud environments.
• Preferred certifications: AWS Certified Security - Specialty, AWS Solutions Architect, CISSP or equivalent security certification.

Required skills

• AWS Security Hub, AWS Config, IAM Access Analyzer, GuardDuty, Inspector, Network Firewall, WAF and Shield
• Advanced VPC, Security Groups, NACLs and VPC endpoint security
• AWS CloudWatch and security logging; KMS, Secrets Manager and certificate controls
• SIEM/log-management integration and vulnerability assessment and remediation