Cloud Security Engineer

Coins.ph; Philippines; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Coins.ph in the Philippines is seeking a seasoned Cloud Security Engineer to design and secure our AWS environment, IAM, VPC, and data protection strategies.

You will implement WAF and DDoS protection, establish robust network isolation across accounts and regions, and drive infrastructure-as-code with Terraform and CloudFormation.

Collaboration with R&D, operations, network, and AI teams will advance security posture, incident response, and risk remediation to support scalable growth.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in CS, cybersecurity, or related field.
• 5+ years in cloud security, network security, or cloud platform operations.
• Strong knowledge of AWS security services and architectures.
• Experience designing network isolation across multiple accounts/regions.
• Proficient in Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Scripting skills in Python, Go, or Shell.
• Excellent cross-team communication and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Plan, build, and optimize AWS security architecture including IAM, VPC, compute, and data security.
• Design and operate WAF, DDoS protection, and security monitoring with AWS services.
• Implement network isolation strategies across accounts, regions, and environments.
• Configure and audit security groups, NACLs, VPNs, and Transit Gateways.
• Drive security automation via Terraform, CloudFormation, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with R&D, operations, network, and AI teams on security reviews.
• Lead incident response, risk assessment, and remediation tracking.

Skills

AWS Security

Network Security

Terraform

CloudFormation

Kubernetes

Scripting (Python/Go/Shell)

Zero Trust IAM

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

AWS

WAF

GuardDuty

Config

CloudFront

VPC

Transit Gateway

KMS

PrivateLink

Job description

Join the Pioneer Crypto Brand in the Philippines!

Coins is the most established crypto brand in The Philippines and has gained the trust of more than 18 million users. Through the easy-to-use mobile app, users can buy and sell a variety of different cryptocurrencies and access a wide range of financial services.

Coins is fully regulated by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and is the first ever crypto-based company in Asia to hold both Virtual Currency and Electronic Money Issuer licenses from a central bank.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the overall planning, construction, and continuous optimization of AWS cloud environment security architecture, covering account systems, IAM, VPC, compute, storage, container, and data security.
• Responsible for the design, configuration, and operation of WAF and DDoS protection systems, including AWS WAF, AWS Shield, CloudFront, Route 53, and third-party security products.
• Design and implement network isolation strategies, including multi-account, multi-VPC, production and non-production environment isolation, subnet segmentation, east-west access control, egress control, and zero-trust access.
• Responsible for the configuration and auditing of Security Group, NACL, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, VPN, Direct Connect, and other network security components.
• Proficient in using AI technologies and tools to carry out cloud security operations, achieving cloud resource risk identification, security monitoring, anomalous behavior analysis, intelligent alert triage, and incident response automation, improving the efficiency of security threat detection and handling.
• Build cloud security monitoring and response capabilities, discovering and handling security risks based on CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Security Hub, Config, VPC Flow Logs, and other tools.
• Drive the implementation of cloud resource configuration baselines, vulnerability management, key management, log auditing, data encryption, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Participate in cloud security incident response, attack tracing, risk assessment, and remediation tracking.
• Drive infrastructure as code and security automation, integrating security checks into Terraform, CloudFormation, CI/CD, and other processes.
• Collaborate with R&D, operations, network, and AI teams to provide security architecture review and launch support for business systems.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or above, majors in computer science, cybersecurity, software engineering, or related fields preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in cloud security, network security, or cloud platform operations.
• Familiar with AWS security architecture and core services, including IAM, Organizations, Control Tower, VPC, EC2, EKS, S3, KMS, CloudFront, WAF, Shield, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Security Hub, and Config.
• Familiar with TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, VPN, routing, load balancing, firewalls, and common network attack and defense principles.
• Able to independently design network isolation and access control solutions across multiple accounts, regions, and environments.
• Familiar with WAF rule design, bot protection, API protection, rate limiting strategies, and DDoS emergency response.
• Familiar with Kubernetes, container, and cloud-native security, with experience in EKS network policies, image security, RBAC, and runtime security.
• Possess scripting or automation skills, familiar with at least one of Python, Go, or Shell.
• Familiar with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Possess good security risk analysis, troubleshooting, documentation, and cross-team communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hold certifications such as AWS Certified Security - Specialty, AWS Solutions Architect, CISSP, CCSP, CISA, etc.
• Experience with large-scale AWS multi-account governance, Landing Zone, or cross-region cloud architecture construction.
• Experience with generative AI, LLM, MLOps, GPU/Kubernetes cluster security operations.
• Familiar with zero trust, SASE, micro-segmentation, service mesh, and cloud-native network security products.
• Familiar with security platforms such as SIEM, SOAR, CSPM, CNAPP, CWPP.
• Have practical experience in security incident response, offense-defense exercises, or red-blue team confrontation.

Join the Coins Team Now!

Meaningful Collaborations - The successful candidate will work cross-functionally with other relevant teams to carry out implementations that will improve and create an impact on customer experience.

Scalable Growth - Be part of a fast-growing organization with the vision to expand its territories outside APAC which will provide opportunities for career advancement.

A Space For Bright Ideas - Let your bright ideas be converted into meaningful changes! Coins culture welcomes new ideas backed up by data to create an impact.