AWS & Application Security Engineer

AWS & Application Security Engineer

Experience: 5+ Years 

Location: Pune,India

Job Role Pointers:

• Conduct security assessments, VAPT, and penetration testing of web applications, mobile applications, AWS infrastructure, and networks.
• Perform security reviews of AWS accounts, VPCs, EC2 instances, EKS clusters, RDS databases, S3 buckets, Load Balancers, and serverless services.
• Implement and manage AWS security services such as GuardDuty, Security Hub, AWS Config, Inspector, CloudTrail, WAF, Shield, and IAM.
• Conduct regular cloud security posture assessments and identify misconfigurations against AWS security best practices and CIS benchmarks.
• Identify security vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and compliance gaps, and drive remediation efforts.
• Hands-on experience with Ansible Automation for server provisioning, configuration management, security hardening, patch management, and compliance enforcement.
• Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks for automating security controls, vulnerability remediation, user access management, and AWS infrastructure deployments.
• Perform and support internal/external security audits and compliance assessments.
• Prepare security test cases, audit checklists, VAPT reports, and risk assessment reports.
• Coordinate with engineering and infrastructure teams to remediate findings within defined timelines.
• Implement OWASP security best practices and support secure SDLC initiatives.
• Perform Linux server hardening and infrastructure security reviews.
• Support firewall, network security, cloud security monitoring, and incident response activities.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience in AWS Security, Application Security, and VAPT.
• Hands-on experience with AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, Inspector, CloudTrail, Config, WAF, Shield, Secrets Manager, and KMS.
• Experience securing containerized environments such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Expertise with tools such as Burp Suite Pro, Nessus, Qualys, Acunetix, Netsparker, Metasploit, WebInspect, and Nmap.
• Experience with OWASP Top 10, secure coding practices, and cloud security controls.
• Good understanding of Linux administration, server hardening, and network security.
• Experience participating in at least two security audits, with one conducted in the last 12 months.
• Excellent analytical, documentation, and communication skills.

Preferred

• Experience in SaaS, e-commerce, or product-based organizations.
• Certifications such as AWS Security Specialty,  CISM, or ISO 27001 Lead Auditor.