Senior Cloud Security Engineer - FedRAMP/AWS

ASPIS LLC; Kansas City (MO); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Aspis is expanding its cybersecurity team and seeking a hands-on Cybersecurity Engineer to build the security capability for our federal client. You will work across AWS, Azure, on-premises environments, and CI/CD pipelines to implement security automation, hardening, and monitoring.

Join a senior team on a FedRAMP‑authorized cloud footprint with relocation consideration. Kansas City metro is preferred; travel to client sites is required, and some remote work is possible on a limited basis.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of relevant cybersecurity engineering experience.
• Hands-on cloud security engineering experience in AWS, with working knowledge of Azure.
• Experience building CI/CD pipeline security stages and infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform/CloudFormation.
• Familiarity with security frameworks (NIST SP 800-53, FISMA, FedRAMP) relevant to Federal work.

Responsibilities

• Design, code, test, and maintain security automation and integrations that reduce manual security work.
• Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code modules delivering hardened cloud resources by default.
• Develop security stages in CI/CD pipelines including SCA, SCA, secrets detection, and policy-as-code gates.
• Engineer baselines for OS, containers, and cloud services and automate their enforcement.
• Implement identity, encryption, key management, and logging within the platform and secure interfaces to on-prem.
• Create detection content, rules, and alerting as code with version control and testing.
• Automate vulnerability scanning coverage and remediation tracking to meet SLAs.

Skills

Containerized applications

Automation scripting

Cloud security engineering

CI/CD security

Terraform

CloudFormation

NIST SP 800-53

Communication

Education

Associate's degree or higher preferred

Tools

GitLab

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Aspis is expanding its cybersecurity team and seeking a hands-on Cybersecurity Engineer to build the security capability for our federal client. You will work across AWS, Azure, on-premises environments, and CI/CD pipelines to implement security automation, hardening, and monitoring.

Join a senior team on a FedRAMP‑authorized cloud footprint with relocation consideration. Kansas City metro is preferred; travel to client sites is required, and some remote work is possible on a limited basis.