First seen by Alion on Nov 5, 2026.
Position Description
We are hiring a Cloud Security Engineer to execute and improve the security posture of our cloud and platform environments. This role is hands-on and engineering-driven, focused on reducing real security risk through practical controls, automation, and collaboration. You will work closely with Platform/Infrastructure, DevOps, Engineering, and IT Ops teams to embed security into day-to-day operations. This role reports to the Security Manager and plays a critical part in strengthening IAM, cloud configurations, pipelines, and detection capabilities as the company scales.
Cloud security execution
- Secure and continuously improve AWS environments, including IAM, networking, logging, and baseline configurations.
- Identify, prioritize, and remediate cloud misconfigurations and insecure patterns.
- Partner with Infrastructure teams to implement secure-by-default cloud architectures.
Identity and access management (IAM)
- Review and reduce over-permissioned access across cloud and systems.
- Implement and maintain least-privilege IAM role models.
- Support joiner/mover/leaver processes in collaboration with IT Ops.
- Assist with privileged access controls and access review processes.
CI/CD and platform security
- Work with DevOps teams to secure CI/CD pipelines.
- Implement controls to prevent secrets leakage and insecure deployments.
- Improve secrets management, key rotation, and environment separation.
- Support infrastructure-as-code security practices and reviews.
Monitoring, detection, and response support
- Improve security logging, alerting, and visibility across cloud environments.
- Support detection of abnormal or risky behavior.
- Assist the Security Manager during incident investigations and root-cause analysis.
- Ensure security findings lead to concrete remediation actions.
Security standards implementation
- Translate security policies and standards into technical controls and guardrails.
- Ensure security requirements are enforced through systems and automation rather than manual checks.
- Help teams adopt secure patterns without slowing delivery.
Collaboration and enablement
- Work directly with Infrastructure and Engineering teams on remediation and improvements.
- Explain security risks and solutions clearly to engineers.
- Avoid “security vs engineering” dynamics by focusing on outcomes and practicality.
- Provide input and feedback to help shape future security standards and tooling.
Requirements
Qualification and Experience
- 4 to 7 years of experience in cloud, infrastructure, DevOps, or security engineering roles.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS.
- Solid understanding of:- IAM and role-based access control
- Cloud networking fundamentals
- Logging, monitoring, and alerting-Secrets management. - Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling.
- Practical problem-solving mindset with a bias toward automation.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.).
- Familiarity with CSPM or cloud security tooling
- Experience supporting incident response or security investigations.
- Exposure to application or API security concepts.
- Experience in fast-moving or scaling environments.
Skills
Security Engineering, DevOps, Identity And Access Management, Cloud Security

