Remote AWS Security Engineer

Introduction: Securing the Future, One Layer at a Time

Imagine an environment where every click, transaction, and innovation is protected by your expertise. As a Remote AWS Security Engineer, you’ll architect and defend robust cloud infrastructures, ensuring that teams across continents move fast, never recklessly. Your approach will empower developers and support executives and instill confidence in thousands of users who trust us daily. Here, your decisions carry weight. This is more than a set of responsibilities—it’s an opportunity to redefine how security is woven into the DNA of our remote-first organization.

Why This Role Matters: Real Impact, Real Scale

Every day, you’ll help shield mission-critical workloads and sensitive data from emerging threats, leveraging Amazon Web Services’ advanced security tools. The solutions you design will enable creative teams to launch products quickly—knowing security isn’t an afterthought but a superpower. Your work will be the difference between an ordinary release and a launch that sets new standards for digital trust.

Key Responsibilities: Designing Trust at Scale

Building Cloud Security Architecture

• Develop and maintain layered AWS security frameworks that integrate best practices for network segmentation, encryption, and least-privileged access.
• Partner with engineering and DevOps to create automated security controls using tools like AWS Config, Lambda, and CloudFormation.
• Translate business requirements into airtight cloud security policies that withstand audit scrutiny and real-world threats.

Monitoring, Detection, and Response

• Lead implementation of advanced monitoring tools—CloudTrail, GuardDuty, and Security Hub—so anomalies are flagged before they become incidents.
• Analyze security logs and alerts, then transform patterns into actionable prevention tactics.
• Respond to live incidents, coordinating with product teams to remediate vulnerabilities swiftly and transparently.

Guiding and Educating

• Mentor developers and analysts on secure coding shared responsibility, and emerging attack vectors.
• Conduct regular security reviews, threat modeling, and simulated breach exercises.
• Champion a mindset where security is second nature to every team member, sharing real examples and straightforward guidance instead of rigid rules or empty policies.

Collaboration & Cross-Functional Impact

• Collaborate with IT, data privacy, compliance, and engineering teams to ensure cloud compliance with GDPR, SOC 2, and other global standards.
• Your technical leadership will help launch new services and infrastructure that millions rely on—all built atop an unshakeable security foundation.

Tools and Technologies: Your Remote Arsenal

• AWS Security Services (IAM, KMS, WAF, Shield, Inspector, Secrets Manager)
• Monitoring: CloudWatch, GuardDuty, Security Hub
• Automation: Lambda, CloudFormation, Terraform
• Collaboration: Slack, Jira, Confluence, Zoom
• You’ll turn advanced cloud-native security features into everyday shields for our distributed teams.

What Sets You Apart: Core Competencies

• You turn ambiguous risk assessments into crystal-clear action plans—everyone understands your recommendations, no matter their technical background.
• When a vulnerability appears, you stay calm, prioritize, and resolve—others follow your lead because your judgment is trusted.
• Instead of simply pointing out gaps, you empower teams to solve problems at the source.
• You simplify complex ideas—whether it’s over Zoom or Slack.
• Experience with security incident response, forensic analysis, and cloud compliance audits sets you up to hit the ground running.

Growth and Learning: Always a Step Ahead

We move quickly, but you’ll always have space to focus intensely. Here, your ideas for improving threat modeling or automating compliance checks aren’t just encouraged—they’re implemented. You’ll explore new AWS features, attend remote conferences, and collaborate with specialists who thrive on knowledge-sharing. Your growth path can lead to cloud security architecture, threat intelligence, or leadership—because we recognize that ambition is as important as expertise.

Work Environment: Remote-First, Always Connected

Our remote culture isn’t just about working from anywhere—it’s about building trust across time zones. You’ll sync with product and infrastructure teams in real-time, troubleshoot alongside global talent, and rely on transparent communication for every win and every challenge. Our collaboration stack includes Slack, Jira, and regular knowledge-sharing sessions, ensuring you’re never isolated.

Compensation & Benefits: Rewarding Your Expertise

This fully remote opportunity offers a highly competitive annual salary of $174,497, with additional performance-based incentives. Our benefits package is designed to support your well-being—think comprehensive health coverage, generous paid leave, a home office stipend, and ongoing professional development allowances. We know that to do your best work, you need the right resources and the freedom to use them.

Who Thrives Here: Mindset Over Resume

You’ll succeed if you thrive in environments where innovation and security move together—never one at the cost of the other. If you see challenges as chances to invent new solutions, and if you believe that the best security professionals make everyone around them stronger, you’ll feel right at home.

Ready to Secure What’s Next?

If you’re looking for a place where your security vision becomes reality, where every idea gets heard, and where you’ll make a measurable impact from day one—we’re ready to meet you. Let’s build trust in every layer of the cloud together.