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AWS Security Platform Engineer
Location: Remote
Salary: Up to £70,000, depending on experience, plus bonus and benefits
About the role
We’re looking for an AWS Security Platform Engineer to help us build and operate secure-by-default cloud environments across our AWS estate. In this hands-on role, you will design, implement, and continually enhance the security controls, guardrails, and automation that keep our cloud platforms resilient, compliant, and safe.
You’ll act as a technical authority for AWS security, embedding best-practice controls into cloud foundations, build pipelines, and day-to-day operations—while enabling our engineering teams to build and innovate at pace.
What you’ll be doing
Designing, building, and improving AWS-native security services, including GuardDuty, Security Hub, IAM, KMS, CloudTrail, AWS Config, Inspector and WAF.
Developing and evolving AWS Landing Zone security controls, baseline configurations, and multi-account guardrails.
Implementing and governing identity and access management (IAM Roles, SCPs, least privilege, federated identity, permission boundaries).
Creating and maintaining AWS security policies, standards and best-practice patterns.
Automating security controls and operational processes using Terraform, CloudFormation, Lambda and CI/CD pipelines.
Monitoring AWS environments for misconfigurations, threats and policy violations—and driving prompt remediation.
Integrating security checks into build and deployment pipelines alongside Cloud Engineering and DevOps teams.
Providing hands-on security guidance to teams adopting AWS services, ensuring secure architectures and implementations.
Supporting incident response for AWS workloads, including investigation, containment and remediation.
Maintaining visibility of cloud security posture through dashboards, reporting and clear communication of risks.
Staying up to date with AWS security innov
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