Associate Technical Architect - Platform
About the role
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and secure
AWS platform infrastructure
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform
CloudFormation
).
- Design and build
event-driven security architectures
automated Security Findings routing and auto-remediation of detective controls
.
- Integrate
AWS Security Hub
GuardDuty
Jira
) to build automated, environment-aware ticket creation and routing workflows based on resource tagging and severity.
- Enforce strict
tagging governance
Service Control Policies/Tag Policies
AWS Config
) to ensure accurate resource attribution and compliance.
- Secure and govern the
AWS account vending process
, ensuring newly provisioned accounts automatically inherit clean security baselines, delegated administrator configurations, and automated suppression rules.
- Implement and manage centralized network security controls at scale using
AWS Firewall Manager
Terraform
.
- Develop secure
CI/CD reference pipelines
automated static analysis
and security scanning gates to block non-compliant infrastructure deployments.
- Transition manual security reviews to continuous, automated assessments using
AWS Security Hub (CSPM)
AWS Config
AWS Security Agent
.
- Rationalize and manage
AWS Config conformance packs
Commercial, GovCloud
) to eliminate redundant findings.
- Support incident response activities by expanding
AWS Security Incident Response (SIR)
adoption, configuring auto-triage for GuardDuty/Security Hub findings to reduce alert noise.
- Collaborate with platform engineering, network engineering, and security operations teams to define secure architecture patterns, exception handling, and remediation SLAs.
Must Have Skills
Experience: 7+ years
AWS Cloud platform/infrastructure engineering
3-5 years
cloud security and automation
AWS Security Services
AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, AWS Config, IAM, KMS
AWS Firewall Manager
AWS Governance & Organizations
AWS Organizations
Service Control Policies (SCPs)
Tag Policies
Delegated Administrator models
Security Automation
event-driven security workflows and auto-remediation scripts
Scripting
Python (Boto3)
Bash
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Terraform
AWS CloudFormation
CI/CD & Pipeline Security
Checkov, tfsec, cfn-lint
Conftest
Multi-Partition Experience
AWS Commercial
AWS GovCloud
Compliance Frameworks
FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, CIS Benchmarks
AWS Foundational Security Best Practices (FSBP)
ITSM Integration
Jira workflows
Core Security Concepts
cloud security models, zero-trust principles, least privilege, encryption
network security fundamentals
Soft Skills
Good to Have Skills
- Experience securing multi-cloud (AWS + GCP/Azure) environments.
- Experience with container security for ECS/EKS (image scanning, runtime protection, IAM roles for tasks).
- Knowledge of SIEM platforms like Sumo Logic, Splunk, or Datadog.
- Experience with AWS Macie, Detective, and advanced data governance solutions.
- Exposure to zero-trust security, identity federation, and SSO (Azure AD/Okta).
- Familiarity with incident response processes and playbook automation (SOAR).
- Experience designing isolation, or exfiltration-prevention controls.
- Additional security certifications (CISSP, CISM, CCSP, AWS Security Specialty)
- Understanding of SOC processes, including Tier-1/2/3 triage, playbook execution, case management, ticketing systems, and threat intelligence enrichment.
- Hands-on knowledge of security incident management, including detection, investigation, containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident reviews.
If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us !
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