Cloud Security Engineer

Guidehouse is hiring a Cloud Security Engineer to secure and maintain AWS environments and workloads. The role develops secure architectures, automates compliance controls, supports incident response, and integrates security into CI/CD processes.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain security controls across AWS cloud 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 applicable security and compliance frameworks, including 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

Requirements:

• U.S. Citizenship or Green Card required, with the ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, cybersecurity, engineering, or a related field; four additional years of relevant experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree
• Minimum 6 years of relevant experience in cloud security, cybersecurity and AWS security
• Strong knowledge of AWS services, including 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 experience 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 complex security, operational, and reliability challenges
• AWS Certified Security – Specialty (Highly desirable)
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer certifications
• CISSP, CISM or GIAC certifications