Cloud Security Engineer

CLOUD SECURITY ENGINEER
AWS • GovCloud • FedRAMP Moderate

Position Overview
Our Client is seeking a hands-on Cloud Security Engineer to own AWS security configuration, evidence production, and finding remediation in a FedRAMP Moderate environment. This is a technical-first role embedded with infrastructure engineering. The successful candidate remediates gaps, enforces access controls, and produces 3PAO-ready evidence—not policy documents.

Key Responsibilities

• Configure, harden, and operate core AWS security services including IAM, IAM Identity Center, CloudTrail, AWS Config, Security Hub, KMS, and centralized logging and monitoring.
• Enforce MFA, remediate excessive or stale access, and drive vulnerability management through to closure.
• Map NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 controls (FedRAMP Moderate) to concrete AWS evidence a 3PAO will accept—configurations, exports, and screenshots—and produce that evidence correctly the first time.
• Triage and close Security Hub, Config, and assessment findings; maintain continuous monitoring artifacts.
• Work self-directed from a Jira backlog alongside infrastructure engineers with minimal ramp time.

Required Qualifications

• Hands-on cloud security engineering experience on AWS; GovCloud experience strongly preferred.
• Working fluency in IAM / IAM Identity Center, CloudTrail, Config, Security Hub, KMS, and logging/monitoring configuration.

• FedRAMP Moderate (NIST 800-53 Rev 5) experience: able to read a control, identify what a 3PAO will accept as passing evidence, and produce it.
• Technical first, compliance-literate second. Representative work includes MFA enforcement, vulnerability management, and access control cleanup.
• Comfortable working independently off a backlog, embedded with infrastructure engineering.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior 3PAO assessment support or FedRAMP readiness engagement.
• Continuous monitoring ownership in an authorized or in-process environment.
• Experience with a compliance automation platform such as Anitian.

About This Role
This is not a GRC-only or advisory position. Candidates who have not personally configured the AWS services listed above, and packaged 3PAO-ready evidence will not be a fit.