Senior Cyber Cloud Security Engineer Lead (Remote)

AEP; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 116,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

AEP is seeking an Advanced Cloud Security Engineer to act as the technical anchor for our enterprise cloud defense strategy. You will engineer, implement, and monitor robust security guardrails within our AWS ecosystems while providing critical support across Azure, GCP, and OCI.

In this role, you will embed security into CI/CD pipelines and define policy as code to enforce continuous compliance, while managing third party SSE and coordinating with the SOC on incident response and threat hunting.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant work experience (Staff) or 10+ years (Lead) in cloud security engineering.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field required.
• Certifications such as CCSP, CISSP, AWS/GCP/Azure certs preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain security controls in AWS using native services and SSE.
• Provide primary to AWS security engineering; support Azure, GCP, OCI environments.
• Automate security guardrails and compliance checks via IaC and PaC.
• Manage SSE platform policies to protect data across cloud environments.
• Collaborate with SOC on incident response and threat modeling.

Skills

AWS Security

Multi-Cloud

DevSecOps

IaC

PaC

SSE

Threat Hunting

IAM

GuardDuty

Security Hub

CloudTrail

KMS

Terraform

CloudFormation

OPA Rego

Sentinel

Cloud Security Architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

OPA/Rego

HashiCorp Sentinel

Job description

AEP is seeking an Advanced Cloud Security Engineer to act as the technical anchor for our enterprise cloud defense strategy. You will engineer, implement, and monitor robust security guardrails within our AWS ecosystems while providing critical support across Azure, GCP, and OCI.

In this role, you will embed security into CI/CD pipelines and define policy as code to enforce continuous compliance, while managing third party SSE and coordinating with the SOC on incident response and threat hunting.