Cloud Security Engineer; AWS​/GovCloud

Overview

Design. Disrupt. Repeat.

Be an agent of change on a team committed to achieving client-focused, mission-driven excellence. Steampunk is the explosive collision of human-centered design and traditional government contracting. We are an employee-owned company with a startup mindset and time-tested approaches tailored for the federal government.

We’repassionate about creating solutions that are impactful, practical, and scalable while meeting our clients’ ever-changing needs.

We believe in empowering our people to find creative solutions to intractable problems. We believe the best environment in which to grow and thrive is outside our comfort zone.

We believe that whilegood designmakes fora good product, human-centered design makes for an excellent one.

As a Cloud Security Engineer
, you will work within our growing Dev Sec Ops  practice delivering features to support developing, testing, and monitoring secure cloud architectures for cloud migration, cloud optimization and cloud deployment. We are looking for candidates with experience with cloud platform services, cybersecurity and Dev Ops practices such as infrastructure as code and confirmation management automation.

Responsibilities include:

• Identify and implement the most secure cloud-based solutions for the customer including components for zero-trust architectures, identity and access management policy, and data privacy
• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and optimizing solutions that marry security with usability
• Monitor cloud environments for suspicious activities with cloud native monitoring or SIEM solutions and investigate security incidents where appropriate
• Examining infrastructure as code written by others and analyzing risk
• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats through risk assessment, threat modeling, and compliance with industry standards (e.g. NIST, ISO 27011, HIPPA, FISMA, etc.)
• Identifying technical problems, performing root cause analysis, and developing updates and ‘fixes’
• Automate security processes such as vulnerability management and patch management
• Working with software developers and Dev Sec Ops  engineers to ensure that development follows established security processes and works as intended
• Support enterprise cloud security through infrastructure as code including any activities around automated server or network configurations, large-scale software deployments, and monitoring and testing
• Ensure effective design and implementation of data protection and encryption mechanisms for data at rest and in transit
• Document as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations
• Identify, analyze, and resolve infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues
• Act as an individual contributor and mentor more junior team members
• Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided
• Present regular status updates and provide cross training to other team members.

Required:

• Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance
• Bachelor’s degree and 10 years of experience
  • OR Master's degree and 8 years of experience
• Strong hands‑on experience with Amazon Web Services (preferably Gov Cloud)
• Experience designing and implementing scalable cloud architectures (VPC, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, S3)
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
• Experience integrating Salesforce with AWS services
• Understanding of data streaming and analytics (Kinesis, Athena, Power BI integration)
• Strong knowledge of cloud security architecture (IAM, least privilege, network segmentation)
• Experience implementing secure connectivity (Private Link, VPN, no public exposure patterns)
• Hands‑on experience with encryption (TLS for transit, KMS for at‑rest data)
• Familiarity with FedRAMP / NIST 800-53 / Zero Trust principles
• Experience supporting ATO documentation and security controls implementation
• Knowledge of logging, monitoring, and threat detection (Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Guard Duty)
• Exposure to Dev Sec Ops  practices (secure CI/CD, secrets management, policy…