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The selected candidate will play a critical role in assessing and strengthening cloud security posture, ensuring alignment with federal cybersecurity standards, and enabling engineering teams to build secure, scalable solutions. You will work closely with architects, engineers, and stakeholders to identify risks, implement controls, and drive security best practices across the enterprise.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(72, 65, 63); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Responsibilities</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(72, 65, 63); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Conduct regular security reviews of cloud infrastructure deployed by engineering teams</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(72, 65, 63); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Evaluate infrastructure-as-code against security standards</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(72, 65, 63); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Review and validate compliance with security policies and best practices</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(72, 65, 63); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Assess adherence to AWS Well-Architected Framework security pillar</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(72, 65, 63); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Identify and document security misconfigurations and non-compliant controls</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(72, 65, 63); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Develop and maintain security posture dashboards</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(72, 65, 63); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Create or update security configuration guides and playbooks</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(72, 65, 63); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Offer technical consultation to engineering teams on secure implementation</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(72, 65, 63); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Implement AWS security controls and services to ensure proper security hardening and other security engineering tasks.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(72, 65, 63); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Develop and update AWS security configuration standards</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(72, 65, 63); 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font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Develop and maintain security architecture artifacts (e.g., models, templates, standards, and procedures) that can be used to leverage security capabilities in projects and operations.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: rgb(72, 65, 63); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Serves as a cloud security expert, integrating sound practices from Identity and Access management, monitoring, platform standards, network segmentation and interconnection, encryption, and more into the cloud platforms.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(72, 65, 63); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Citizenship</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(72, 65, 63); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">·   </span><span style=\"color: rgb(72, 65, 63); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">US Citizenship</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(72, 65, 63); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; 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