AWS Security Engineer

We’re looking for an AWS Security Engineer for our client in the data sector, based in London, on an initial 3 to 6 month contract paying up to £500 per day Outside IR35.

This role offers hybrid working with an expectation to attend the office 3 days per week.

You will focus on hands-on remediation of cloud and application vulnerabilities across AWS environments. The position involves working closely with Developers, Data Engineers and the AWS Security Lead to validate findings, prioritise risk, implement secure fixes, and strengthen AWS security controls. This is a delivery-focused role where you will own issues end to end.

The successful AWS Security Engineer will have experience with:

• Deep, hands-on AWS security across IAM, networking, compute, storage and serverless
• AWS security controls including IAM least privilege, VPC segmentation, private endpoints, WAF/Shield, KMS, secrets management and logging
• Operating AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, Inspector, Config and Access Analyzer
• Vulnerability remediation across OS/packages, containers, libraries, serverless runtimes and cloud misconfigurations
• CI/CD and DevSecOps practices including shift-left reviews, dependency management and pipeline guardrails
• Infrastructure as Code security using Terraform and/or CloudFormation
• Python or Bash automation to streamline remediation and control validation
• Working with common scanning tools such as Inspector, Snyk, Trivy, Dependabot or Prisma/Tenable

Nice to have: AWS Security Specialty, Solutions Architect, container/serverless security experience, or policy-as-code tools such as OPA/Conftest.

Interested?

Please apply below.

AWS Security Engineer, Cloud Security Engineer, DevSecOps Engineer, Vulnerability Remediation, AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, Inspector, IAM Security, VPC Security, KMS, Terraform, CloudFormation, CI/CD Security, Python, Container Security, London, Hybrid