Cloud Security Control Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure and workspace environments.
• Develop automation and engineering solutions using Python.
• Support the implementation and management of AWS infrastructure across complex enterprise environments.
• Automate repetitive infrastructure and operational processes to improve efficiency and reliability.
• Work with infrastructure, DevOps and security teams to deliver secure and scalable cloud solutions.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure, application and cloud environment issues.
• Contribute to cloud engineering standards, patterns and best practices.
• Support Infrastructure as Code and automated deployment approaches.
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise security, architecture and operational requirements.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of cloud engineering processes and tooling.
• Work collaboratively with technical and business stakeholders to translate requirements into robust technical solutions.

Essential Skills & Experience

• The successful candidate must have a strong combination of AWS security and infrastructure engineering, Python, Terraform, Open Policy Agent (OPA/Rego), DevOps/CI/CD and security controls experience.
• Strong commercial experience in AWS cloud engineering.
• Experience working with monitoring, logging or observability platforms such as Splunk.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform.
• Experience with AWS security and IAM.
• Strong hands-on Python development and scripting experience.
• Proven experience designing, implementing and supporting AWS infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure and architecture, including services such as VPC, EC2 and S3.
• Experience with cloud automation and infrastructure engineering.
• Experience working within DevOps / CI/CD environments.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working in complex enterprise technology environments.
• Good understanding of cloud security principles and secure engineering practices.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Desirable

• AWS or other relevant cloud certifications.
• Experience with security automation and cloud compliance.
• Experience within financial services or another highly regulated environment.