Senior Cloud Security Engineer — AWS, DevSecOps & EKS

Benchmark Analytics; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Benchmark Analytics is seeking a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to join our Infrastructure & Security team in Chicago. You will be pivotal in ensuring the reliability and security of our cloud infrastructure while enabling our engineering teams to operate securely and efficiently.

This role involves hardening our AWS environment, managing IAM strategies, and implementing effective security practices across our CI/CD pipelines. Ideal candidates will possess a deep understanding of cloud security and infrastructure as code.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and maintaining secure AWS infrastructure for both standard and GovCloud.
• Ability to manage IAM and least-privilege access controls effectively.
• Proficient in implementing security tooling and monitoring solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain secure AWS infrastructure across environments.
• Own infrastructure-as-code practices with a security-first mindset.
• Implement and maintain application observability and monitoring.

Skills

AWS infrastructure expertise

Terraform / OpenTofu

IAM strategy management

Container security

Security practices in software engineering

Tools

GitHub Actions

EKS

Job description

Benchmark Analytics is seeking a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to join our Infrastructure & Security team in Chicago. You will be pivotal in ensuring the reliability and security of our cloud infrastructure while enabling our engineering teams to operate securely and efficiently.

This role involves hardening our AWS environment, managing IAM strategies, and implementing effective security practices across our CI/CD pipelines. Ideal candidates will possess a deep understanding of cloud security and infrastructure as code.