AWS Cloud Security Engineer — IAM, CI/CD & Threat Detection

Guidehouse; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 92,000 - 153,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Parental Leave

Tuition Reimbursement, Certifications

Job summary

Guidehouse is seeking a security-focused software professional to design and maintain security controls across AWS environments in the United States. You will safeguard cloud workloads, implement centralized logging, and integrate security into CI/CD pipelines using Terraform, CloudFormation, and monitoring tools.

The role requires 6+ years of cloud security experience, strong AWS services knowledge, and the ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance. Up to 10% travel is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, cybersecurity, engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 6 years of relevant experience in cloud security, cybersecurity and AWS security.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Implement centralized logging, monitoring, alerting, threat modeling, vulnerability scanning, and penetration testing practices.
• Ensure AWS environments align with 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.

Skills

Cloud security

Incident response

Security automation

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/cybersecurity/engineering

Tools

GitHub Actions

AWS CodeBuild

ArgoCD

Helm

Docker

Terraform

Job description

Guidehouse is seeking a security-focused software professional to design and maintain security controls across AWS environments in the United States. You will safeguard cloud workloads, implement centralized logging, and integrate security into CI/CD pipelines using Terraform, CloudFormation, and monitoring tools.

The role requires 6+ years of cloud security experience, strong AWS services knowledge, and the ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance. Up to 10% travel is expected.