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Peraton · 1 week ago

AWS Security Manager

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid, Senior Level

$80K/yr - $128K/yr

6+ years exp

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe. They are seeking an experienced AWS Security Manager to lead the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of their cloud security program, ensuring the security and compliance of their AWS infrastructure while collaborating with various teams.

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No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Lead, mentor, and develop a team of security engineers focused on AWS hardening, Terraform automation, CI/CD security, monitoring, and incident response

Establish enterprise-wide AWS security standards, policies, and best practices

Oversee the overall IAM strategy, including roles, policies, identity federation, and least-privilege enforcement

Guide engineers on AWS Lambda development, serverless architecture, secure coding, and scalable deployments

Manage deployment and configuration of AWS native security tools including Security Hub, GuardDuty, Config/Config Rules, KMS, and VPC security controls

Collaborate with DevOps teams to embed security into CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code workflows

Enforce security controls for logging, encryption, segmentation, patching, and vulnerability management

Drive automation for drift detection, patching, remediation, and compliance reporting

Oversee detection and response activities for AWS security events

Lead threat investigations, RCA processes, and remediation plans

Maintain and improve security runbooks, tabletop exercises, and escalation procedures

Continuously evaluate AWS environments to identify cost-effective security enhancements

Manage AWS risk register, security assessments, internal controls, and compliance workflows

Ensure readiness for audits including SA&A, NIST, FISMA, and FedRAMP

Coordinate evidence gathering, control testing, gap remediation, and auditor engagement

Conduct configuration reviews, vulnerability scans, and compliance checks

Review and approve new AWS architectures from a security perspective

Partner with engineering and development teams to train and promote secure cloud practices

Report security risks, KPIs, and metrics to senior leadership

Participate in on-call rotations to support 24/7 production systems and incident response

Qualification

AWS security servicesTerraform automationAWS IAMCloud security experienceAWS LambdaSecurity compliance certificationsContainer securityIncident responseScripting in PythonScripting in BashLeadership experience