Information Technology - Engineer, Systems Ld

AWS Cloud Platform Engineer

This position is to remediate Indicators of misconfigurations (IOM's) and Indicators of attack (IOA's) reported by our Cloud Security Posture Management tool Crowd Strike. Defines, designs, develops, and engineers secure cloud platform solutions with a primary focus on the remediation of AWS cloud security vulnerabilities, compliance gaps, and platform risks. Performs vulnerability analysis, root-cause assessment, remediation planning, and engineering implementation across AWS services, infrastructure-as-code, operating systems, containers, and supporting platform components.

Assesses architecture and current platform limitations, defines secure system specifications, and evaluates input/output processes and working parameters for cloud, infrastructure, and software compatibility. Coordinates remediation activities across Cloud Platform Engineering, Security, application teams, and infrastructure stakeholders to ensure vulnerabilities are prioritized, remediated, validated, and sustainably prevented. Defines system support requirements to include monitoring, capacity, staffing, patching/updating, automation, and security guardrails.

Analyzes and resolves platform support deficiencies and conducts independent technical investigations in cloud security, systems design, and engineering remediation.

Essential Functions:

• Leads hands-on remediation of AWS cloud security vulnerabilities, including findings related to IAM, network exposure, encryption, logging, patching, configuration drift, container security, and cloud service misconfiguration.
• Installs, tunes, upgrades, troubleshoots, and maintains cloud and systems platforms relevant to supported applications, including operating system administration, user access management, disaster recovery support, networking configuration, patching, and vulnerability remediation.
• Develops and implements engineering solutions, automation, and guardrails to prevent recurring security vulnerabilities and system problems.
• Evaluates new and existing cloud services, systems, and security controls by performing in-depth testing, end-user reviews, vulnerability validation, remediation verification, and performance assessments.
• Improves engineering and cloud security knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art AWS security, platform engineering, and vulnerability management practices; and participating in professional societies.
• Acts as a mentor for junior and senior team members, with emphasis on secure cloud engineering practices, vulnerability remediation, automation, infrastructure as code, and AWS platform standards.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education Level: Bachelor's Degree

Education Details:
Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or related technical field.

Experience:

8 years proven success overseeing the design, development, implementation, support, and secure operation of software systems, cloud platforms, infrastructure services, or enterprise applications. In lieu of a bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

Seeking an experienced and hands-on AWS Cloud Platform Engineer with strong cloud security, vulnerability remediation, infrastructure engineering, and automation experience. This resource will focus on remediating cloud security vulnerabilities across the AWS environment, strengthening platform guardrails, and improving the security posture of enterprise cloud services. The AWS Cloud Platform Engineer will be responsible for analyzing security findings, designing and implementing remediation solutions, validating closure of vulnerabilities, and integrating preventive controls into the AWS platform.

The role requires strong hands-on engineering capability, deep AWS platform knowledge, and the ability to collaborate with Security, Cloud Platform Engineering, application teams, architects, and operations teams to deliver scalable, reliable, secure, and compliant cloud solutions.

Summary:

Minimum of 10 years of IT experience, of which at least 5 years must be in AWS Cloud Platform engineering, administration, automation, or security remediation. Strong hands-on AWS engineering experience with proven ability to remediate cloud security vulnerabilities and harden AWS environments. Experience analyzing and remediating findings from cloud security, vulnerability management, configuration compliance, container security, and monitoring tools. Strong experience with AWS security services and controls, including IAM,…