Job Title: Senior AWS Cloud Security Engineer - Remote / Telecommute
Job Location: Raleigh, NC
Job Type: Contract
Pay Range: $51.00hr - $56.00hr
Job Overview:
The candidate will design, implement, and manage AWS IAM and IAM Identity Center solutions across enterprise multi-account AWS environments. Responsibilities include developing IAM policies, permission boundaries, trust relationships, RBAC, permission sets, and least-privilege access models. The successful candidate will manage AWS Organizations governance including SCPs, RCPs, tag policies, backup policies, guardrails, and account lifecycle controls. Additionally, the role involves configuring and supporting AWS Control Tower, AWS Config, GuardDuty, CloudTrail, and Security Hub for governance and security posture monitoring, while building event-driven automation using Python, Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, Boto3, and APIs. The candidate will support governance-as-code and IAM automation through Git, CI/CD pipelines, CloudFormation, CDK, or Terraform with automated validation.
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