Senior AWS Cloud Security Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Parental Leave

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Referral Program

Learning Opportunities

Discretionary bonus potential

Job summary

Guidehouse is seeking an experienced cloud security professional to design and implement security controls across AWS environments. You will safeguard workloads, integrate secure CI/CD pipelines, and develop architectures using IAM, KMS, CloudTrail, and Config, while leveraging Sentry and Datadog for monitoring.

The role requires 6+ years in cloud security, with strong AWS service knowledge, scripting skills in Python or Bash, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to resolve security,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, cybersecurity, engineering, or related field; four additional years of experience may substitute for degree.
• Minimum 6 years of cloud security, cybersecurity and AWS security experience.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, CloudFront, Route 53, IAM, CloudTrail, Config, KMS).
• Experience supporting secure CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and developer enablement.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain security controls across AWS cloud environments.
• Safeguard cloud workloads with identity management, monitoring, threat detection, and secure operations.
• Develop secure AWS architectures using IAM, KMS, CloudTrail, Config; monitor with Sentry and Datadog.
• Implement centralized logging, monitoring, alerting, vulnerability scanning, and pen testing.

Skills

AWS security

Cloud security

CI/CD pipelines

Python scripting

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Security incident response

Threat modeling

Vulnerability scanning

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS IAM

KMS

CloudTrail

Config

Sentry

Datadog

Terraform

CloudFormation

ArgoCD

Helm

Job description

Guidehouse is seeking an experienced cloud security professional to design and implement security controls across AWS environments. You will safeguard workloads, integrate secure CI/CD pipelines, and develop architectures using IAM, KMS, CloudTrail, and Config, while leveraging Sentry and Datadog for monitoring.

The role requires 6+ years in cloud security, with strong AWS service knowledge, scripting skills in Python or Bash, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to resolve security,