Cloud Security AWS IAM Engineer

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 11 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Position Title: Cloud Security / AWS IAM Engineer

Schedule: M-F standard hours - 100% remote but only local candidates

Overview

We are seeking a highly technical hands-on Hybrid Identity Engineer to help transition and mature identity and access management (IAM) ownership within our cloud environments. This role will be instrumental in taking ownership of AWS IAM responsibilities while supporting a multi-cloud ecosystem that includes AWS (primary) GCP and Azure.

The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise a strong security mindset and a passion for mentoring and enabling teams through hands-on guidance and training.

Key Responsibilities

Take ownership of cloud identity and access management with a primary focus on AWS.
Partner with the Cloud Infrastructure team to transition IAM ownership to the IAM team.
Assess and understand existing IAM and cloud identity processes.
Develop and execute a strategy to:
- Transition ownership to the IAM team
- Improve governance and security controls
- Educate and enable internal teams
Design implement and maintain automated IAM solutions using:
- Cloud-native tools and templates
- Terraform
- GitHub-based workflows
Drive standardization scalability and security through automation.
Serve as a hands-on technical lead while mentoring and training IAM team members.
Collaborate closely with architects security teams and other engineering teams.
Promote security best practices and a strong identity-first security mindset.

Required Qualifications

Strong hands-on experience in Identity and Access Management (IAM).
Deep experience with AWS IAM; familiarity with GCP and Azure.
Proven experience supporting business-critical identity solutions in production environments.
Strong understanding of security principles related to identity access and cloud environments.
Hands-on automation experience with:
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices
Experience working with GitHub or similar version control systems.
Ability to clearly explain technical concepts and guide others.
Strong collaboration and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience leading or supporting IAM ownership transitions.
Experience building or improving identity governance frameworks.
Prior experience training or mentoring engineers.
Multi-cloud IAM experience.

Success Criteria

Quickly understand the current IAM and cloud identity landscape.
Establish a clear roadmap for IAM ownership transition.
Enable IAM team members through hands-on training and knowledge sharing.
Implement secure automated and scalable IAM solutions.
Improve collaboration between IAM Cloud Infrastructure and other teams

Position Title: Cloud Security / AWS IAM Engineer Schedule: M-F standard hours - 100% remote but only local candidates Overview We are seeking a highly technical hands-on Hybrid Identity Engineer to help transition and mature identity and access management (IAM) ownership within our cloud environme...