Senior AWS Cloud Security Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental & Vision

401(k)

Parental Leave

Holidays

Life Insurance

Transit Benefits

Tuition Reimbursement

Learning Opportunities

Employee Assistance Program

Bonus Potential

Job summary

Guidehouse is seeking a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to design and implement security controls across AWS environments in San Antonio, TX. You will safeguard cloud workloads and enable secure CI/CD pipelines with Terraform and CloudFormation.

Responsibilities include aligning AWS deployments with CIS, NIST, HIPAA, FedRAMP, and SOC 2, and supporting incident detection, investigation, and response while maintaining audit trails. U.S. citizenship or clearance ability required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS / cybersecurity / engineering; four additional years of relevant experience may substitute for the degree.
• Minimum 6 years of relevant experience in cloud security and AWS security.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, CloudFront, Route 53, IAM, CloudTrail, Config, and KMS).
• Experience supporting secure CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, build troubleshooting, release coordination, and developer enablement.
• Hands-on with GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild, ArgoCD, Helm, Docker, secrets management, environment configuration, and Terraform templates.
• Ability to validate account handoffs, review pipeline configurations, verify secrets, support deployment dry runs, and assist with cutover and rollback planning.
• Strong scripting or development experience with Python, Bash, or similar languages.
• Proven ability to work independently and collaborate with cross-functional teams to solve security, operational, and reliability challenges.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain security controls across AWS 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 such as Sentry and Datadog.
• 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

AWS security

CI/CD security

Scripting (Python/Bash)

Cloud architecture

Threat modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS / Cybersecurity / Engineering

Tools

GitHub Actions

AWS CodeBuild

ArgoCD

Helm

Docker

Terraform

Job description

Guidehouse is seeking a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to design and implement security controls across AWS environments in San Antonio, TX. You will safeguard cloud workloads and enable secure CI/CD pipelines with Terraform and CloudFormation.

Responsibilities include aligning AWS deployments with CIS, NIST, HIPAA, FedRAMP, and SOC 2, and supporting incident detection, investigation, and response while maintaining audit trails. U.S. citizenship or clearance ability required.