AWS Security Engineer - Federal Cloud Operations (Remote)

Axyde Analytics; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Axyde Analytics seeks a senior cloud-security engineer to secure and operate an AWS-based federal data and AI platform handling sensitive information. The role focuses on translating federal and NIST requirements into controls and supporting security plans for ATO/IATO.

The candidate will configure and monitor core AWS security services, integrate with DOE OneID/SAML, and ensure least-privilege access, auditability, and continuous monitoring across environments.

Qualifications

• Five+ years securing AWS systems in federal or highly regulated environments.
• Experience supporting federal ATO or IATO packages.
• Knowledge of FedRAMP Moderate, NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5, CUI, incident response, continuous monitoring, and AWS shared responsibility.
• Hands-on experience with AWS identity, encryption, logging, monitoring, networking, and security-posture services.
• Experience with SIEM integration and security evidence production.
• Strong technical writing and audit-support skills.

Responsibilities

• Translate FedRAMP, NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5, DOE, NNSA, CUI, privacy, and system-security requirements into controls.
• Support development of the system security plan and activities to request an IATO or ATO.
• Configure and monitor IAM, KMS, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, AWS Config, Security Hub, VPC, logging, encryption, and approved security services.
• Design integration with DOE OneID/SAML and Government SIEM capabilities, including Splunk.
• Implement least privilege, RBAC, auditability, incident response, and continuous monitoring.
• Maintain security artifacts, evidence, control mappings, POA&Ms, baselines, and procedures.
• Review architecture changes for authorization boundaries and security consequences.
• Support production and test environments, release management, backup, recovery, availability, and monitoring.
• Train delivery personnel on applicable handling and security obligations.

Skills

AWS security

Federal/compliance

SIEM integration

Technical writing

Audit support

Tools

Splunk

SAML

AWS IAM

AWS Config

KMS

CloudTrail

Job description

Axyde Analytics seeks a senior cloud-security engineer to secure and operate an AWS-based federal data and AI platform handling sensitive information. The role focuses on translating federal and NIST requirements into controls and supporting security plans for ATO/IATO.

The candidate will configure and monitor core AWS security services, integrate with DOE OneID/SAML, and ensure least-privilege access, auditability, and continuous monitoring across environments.