Cloud Security Engineer (AWS & GCP)

Cloud Security Engineer (AWS & GCP)

Tyto Athene is hiring a Cloud Security Engineer (AWS & GCP) to join our team of cloud, security, and compliance experts. This role is primarily focused on day‑to‑day security engineering, including system hardening, vulnerability remediation, cloud operations, and security tool management across AWS & GCP environments.

Responsibilities

• Perform systems administration and maintenance including patching, vulnerability scanning, compliance scanning and remediation, backups, and recovery for cloud workloads.
• Support AWS & GCP environments, including Windows and Linux virtual machines, container workloads, and cloud services such as EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, WorkSpaces (AWS), Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL (GCP), and Active Directory or equivalent identity services.
• Configure, update, and maintain security tools for endpoint protection, log collection, vulnerability scanning, and compliance monitoring.
• Troubleshoot issues across network, compute, application, and identity layers by reviewing logs, collecting data, and analyzing system behavior.
• Implement hardening and compliance controls using CIS Benchmarks, DISA STIGs, and FedRAMP requirements.
• Remediate vulnerabilities identified by tools such as Tenable, Trivy, OpenSCAP, Anchore, Twistlock, and others.
• Provide quality assurance feedback during system deployments to ensure architecture meets compliance and operational requirements.
• Collaborate with Security Analysts to ensure uninterrupted delivery of security services to customers.
• Create and maintain documentation including network diagrams, dataflow diagrams, SOPs, and security tool configuration guides.
• Support client communications, deliverables, and issue resolution with strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Support and mentor junior engineers as and when required.

After‑Hours 24×7 On‑Call Rotation

• Serve as primary or backup on‑call engineer during assigned rotation.
• Respond to after‑hours security alerts, infrastructure incidents, outages, and ConMon events.
• Perform initial triage, containment, and stabilization using established runbooks.
• Investigate and respond to alerts generated.
• Escalate complex issues to senior engineers, architect.