AWS Cloud Engineer

AWS Cloud Engineer

Insight Global is seeking an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer to join a Security Green Team, translating vulnerability and misconfiguration findings into durable, automated remediation embedded into how cloud infrastructure is built and maintained. Moving beyond reactive, manual patching, this hands-on engineer will own the remediation pipeline for the AWS estate and codifying fixes as infrastructure as code, automating patch and image lifecycle management, hardening baselines against CIS benchmarks, and enforcing policy-as-code guardrails.

Architects set strategic direction; the engineer executes against it, bringing the AWS depth needed to harden an environment where internal AWS experience is currently limited.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assess the current AWS and broader cloud environment to identify hardening and configuration gaps.
• Validate that guardrails are in place and meet CIS benchmarks across the AWS estate.
• Design and implement policy enforcement and guardrails across AWS via policy-as-code and continuous compliance scanning.
• Codify fixes and standards as Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) so misconfigurations do not reappear downstream.
• Build and harden CI/CD pipelines with development teams, integrating security and policy gates.
• Prepare the environment for forthcoming container and Kubernetes workloads as the Kubernetes platform team engages.
• Coordinate server patching and lifecycle management with the platform and Linux teams.
• Maintain dashboards and reporting on security posture, remediation velocity, and cloud risk.