Location: Manassas, VA (Onsite minimum 2 days per week)

Department: Global Security

Role Overview

Santcore Technologies is partnering with a global leader in secure financial messaging services to support their digital transformation and hybrid cloud adoption strategy. This role plays a critical part in strengthening cloud security posture and ensuring compliance across cloud-hosted infrastructure, applications, and network environments.

The AWS Cloud Security Engineer will contribute to designing, implementing, and operationalizing security controls for evolving cloud environments. As a senior team member, the candidate will work cross-functionally with engineering, platform, and application teams to ensure cloud deployments meet regulatory, compliance, and organizational security standards.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Security Compliance & Risk Management

Analyze cloud security compliance gaps and conduct root cause analysis for identified vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.
Develop and recommend remediation strategies to address compliance risks and security weaknesses.
Evaluate security exception requests and perform risk assessments to support business decision-making.
Support vulnerability management processes, including monitoring, reporting, and remediation coordination.

Cloud Security Engineering & Implementation

Collaborate with Cloud Platform Security Engineering teams to design, implement, and operationalize cloud security services and controls.
Support application and infrastructure teams during cloud migration by ensuring adherence to security best practices and compliance requirements.
Contribute to the development and improvement of security frameworks, policies, and standards aligned with regulatory and organizational objectives.

Automation & Continuous Improvement

Design and implement automation solutions to improve security monitoring, compliance enforcement, and operational efficiency.
Identify repeatable security processes and develop scalable automated solutions.

Stakeholder Collaboration & User Support

Partner with application owners, developers, and infrastructure teams to onboard and support cloud security tools and services.
Conduct user acceptance testing (UAT), troubleshoot security tool issues, and provide technical guidance to users.
Translate security requirements and remediation plans into Agile epics, user stories, and work items for engineering teams.

Documentation & Governance

Develop and maintain cloud security architecture documentation, engineering guidelines, and operational procedures.
Ensure documentation aligns with industry standards, regulatory requirements, and organizational security governance.

Required Qualifications

Experience implementing and managing cloud security controls, preferably in AWS environments.
Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, networking, and application security principles.
Experience with vulnerability management, compliance frameworks, and risk assessment methodologies.
Ability to translate technical security requirements into actionable engineering deliverables.
Experience working in Agile or DevOps environments.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and stakeholder communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

AWS Security or Cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Security Specialty).
Experience supporting hybrid cloud environments.
Familiarity with automation tools, scripting, or Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks.
Knowledge of regulatory or financial industry compliance standards.

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