Experience: 6+ Years
Location: Bangalore
Work Mode: Work From Office – 5 Days a Week
Priority: Technical expertise and hands-on experience

Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced Senior Cloud Security Engineer with 7+ years of experience, including strong hands-on expertise in AWS Cloud Security.
The candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, assessing, and continuously improving security across AWS cloud environments. The role requires robust knowledge of cloud security architecture, IAM, network security, threat detection, vulnerability management, incident response, security monitoring, encryption, and DevSecOps.
This is a highly technical position. Hands-on technical expertise will be given significantly more importance than communication skills. Good written and verbal communication.

Key Responsibilities
Design and implement secure AWS cloud architectures.
Establish and maintain AWS security best practices and security controls.
Implement IAM, RBAC, least-privilege access, MFA, federation and privileged access controls.
Secure AWS networking including VPCs, Security Groups, NACLs, routing, private/public subnets and VPC endpoints.
Implement and manage AWS security services including:
AWS IAM
AWS KMS
AWS CloudTrail
Amazon GuardDuty
AWS Security Hub
AWS Config
AWS WAF
AWS Secrets Manager
Monitor and investigate security events, threats and suspicious activities.
Lead or participate in cloud security incident response and root-cause analysis.




Conduct vulnerability assessments and coordinate remediation.
Perform AWS security posture reviews and identify misconfigurations.
Review cloud architectures and provide security recommendations.
Implement encryption and data protection controls.
Secure CI/CD pipelines and support DevSecOps practices.
Review Infrastructure as Code for security risks.
Implement security automation wherever possible.
Work with engineering, DevOps and infrastructure teams to embed security into the development lifecycle.
Establish security standards, policies and controls for AWS environments.
Support compliance requirements and security audits.
Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance.

Mandatory Technical Skills
Must Have
7+ years of overall IT/Security/Cloud experience
Strong AWS Cloud Security experience
Hands-on AWS security architecture
AWS IAM
IAM policies, roles, permissions and least privilege
AWS networking security
VPC, Security Groups and NACLs
CloudTrail and security logging
GuardDuty
Security Hub
KMS and encryption
Vulnerability management
Cloud security monitoring
Incident response
Security hardening
Security architecture/design

Good to Have
AWS Organizations / SCP
Terraform / CloudFormation
DevSecOps
CI/CD security
Docker/Kubernetes security
SAST/DAST/SCA
SIEM tools
Python/Bash/PowerShell scripting
CIS Benchmarks
NIST
ISO 27001
SOC 2
AWS security certifications

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