Senior Cloud Security Engineer – AWS, GCP

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $135k - $160k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

☁️ Cloud Engineer

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Tyto Athene, LLC

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2018

🎖️ Defense

🔒 Cybersecurity

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Defense • Cybersecurity • Artificial Intelligence

Tyto Athene, LLC is a defense-focused advanced technology company (appearing on its site as Quantum Sky) that engineers mission advantage across quantum technologies, cyber operations, resilient networks, and autonomous decision systems for contested, high-threat environments. The firm emphasizes applied research and IP development through "Project 137," and organizes capabilities into programs for quantum-enabled sensing and algorithms (Frontier), preemptive/autonomous cyber defense (Armory), autonomic digital platforms and networks (Matrix), and AI/agentic decision-advantage systems (Axis). Its messaging and product lines are explicitly mission- and warfighter-oriented, targeting customers that operate in post-quantum, contested, and machine-speed domains.

📋 Description

• Perform systems administration and maintenance including patching, vulnerability scanning, compliance scanning and remediation, backups, and recovery for cloud workloads • Support AWS and GCP environments, including Windows and Linux virtual machines, container workloads, and cloud 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 Tenable, Trivy, OpenSCAP, Anchore, Twistlock, and other tools • 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 network diagrams, dataflow diagrams, SOPs, and security tool configuration guides • Support client communications, deliverables, and issue resolution • Support and mentor junior engineers as required • Participate as primary or backup engineer in a structured after-hours 24×7 on-call 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 • Escalate complex issues to senior engineers, architects, or compliance teams • Document incidents, actions taken, and recommended improvements • Contribute to automation improvements and runbook enhancements

🎯 Requirements

• Six (6) or more years of IT engineering and/or cybersecurity experience, with at least three (3) years working in a dedicated cloud security engineering or similar position • Hands-on experience with both AWS and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) • Ability to diagnose and resolve issues across Linux and Windows systems, network infrastructure, and cloud services • General systems administration and vulnerability management experience, including system patching and hardening, identity and access management (IAM), and related tasks • Experience working in a DevSecOps environment, integrating security practices into cloud and infrastructure workflows • Familiarity with ITSM ticketing systems such as Gitlab (preferred), Jira, ServiceNow, etc. • Ability to work independently during both business hours and on-call periods • Strong written and verbal communication skills for customer interaction and incident documentation • Hands-on experience with one or more of the following tools: Splunk Enterprise; Tenable Security Center/Nessus; Invicti/Acunetix; Appgate; Okta; GitLab; Palo Alto Networks Firewalls; TrendMicro Deep Security; Trivy; Anchore; Terraform; CloudFormation; Ansible • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or other relevant field (desired) • Experience supporting federal/government-facing customers or consulting engagements, ensuring compliance and operational requirements • Experience with FedRAMP, FISMA, or NIST 800-53 compliance frameworks • Prior on-call, SRE, SOC, or incident response experience • Relevant AWS or Google Cloud Platform certifications (desired) • Security+ or other relevant industry security certification (desired) • Experience with infrastructure-as-code or automation tooling • Experience with Kubernetes is highly desirable • Must be a US Citizen with the ability to obtain a security clearance

🏖️ Benefits

• Health/Dental/Vision • 401(k) match • Paid Time Off • STD/LTD/Life Insurance • Referral Bonuses • professional development reimbursement • parental leave

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