IAM Cloud Engineer

About the Role

This is not a traditional security or IAM role. It is a development-heavy engineering position requiring strong coding expertise, with a focus on cloud-native services and enterprise security solutions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional cloud teams to define and implement IAM roles and policies for public cloud services.
• Develop security controls and tools to ensure IAM compliance with cloud security standards.
• Build automation and libraries for self-service IAM identity and permission creation.
• Deliver IAM solutions through CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and validation.
• Enhance Python-based frameworks for security control orchestration and detection/response workflows.
• Develop integrations with cloud services, security tooling, and platforms.
• Contribute to preventative and detective controls, including policy enforcement and event-driven detection logic.
• Write and maintain automated unit, integration, and behavioral tests.
• Support CI/CD integration and continuous validation of controls.
• Collaborate with Security Controls Engineers, Threat Modelers, and Cloud Architects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience with cloud-native services in AWS or GCP.
• Advanced proficiency in Python.
• Experience with API development, scalable production-grade code, and automated testing frameworks.
• Background in designing and implementing enterprise security solutions, preferably in Financial Services or large, complex environments.
• Highly motivated self-starter with strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently, multi-task, and take ownership of project components.

Skills

• Proficiency in infrastructure as code (IaC) tools: Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Experience with unit testing frameworks: Behave, pytest, or JUnit.
• Skill in developing and securing SOAP and REST-based web service APIs.
• Familiarity with DevOps, agile methodologies, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, AWS Certified Security Specialty, Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer) are a plus.

Pay

Salary Range: $90,000 to $115,000 per year