Why this role stands out
This fully remote AWS Engineer role offers a competitive hourly rate and the chance to significantly impact cloud security and operations within a dynamic environment. You'll thrive here if you have extensive AWS experience, a knack for IAM and security, and enjoy the flexibility of a startup setting. Apply today to leverage your expertise and grow your career remotely!
Quick overview
Job description
If below position suits you then please share your updated resume with expected hourly rate at
its a Fully remote Roele woth 3+ month temp role with the possibility to extend for a year.
C2C rate $60 per hour
AWS Sr. Engineer or Architect—focus in IAM, security, provisioning, permissions, operational administration and management
Will work Pacific Time Zone hours
5+ years AWS
Must haves:
- Experience in a start-up or other small company environment where they had to wear a lot of hats and be flexible in responsibilities.
- Demonstrable hands-on AWS cloud operations administration across a multi-account AWS Organizations environment
- Deep practical IAM experience: IAM Identity Center, permission sets, permission boundaries, policy authoring and evaluation
- Service Control Policy design and staged rollout experience
- Experience with AWS Well-Architected Framework
- Identity federation experience with SAML and SCIM, and the judgment to navigate provider-specific limitations
- Infrastructure as Code proficiency — Terraform or CloudFormation — sufficient to convert manually provisioned resources and to manage identity configuration as code
- A working security posture: least privilege as a default instinct, familiarity with CloudTrail, GuardDuty, AWS Config, and Security Hub
- Ability to work directly with engineers across teams with differing working styles, and to communicate constraints and trade-offs clearly
- Initiative. Will identify and drive work without being assigned it, in an environment where no one else is watching the AWS estate full-time.
- Startup temperament. Comfortable with rapidly changing product architecture, including AI-assisted development, and able to re-prioritize without friction.
- Dual-mode working. Genuinely able to balance structured project delivery against reactive support, switching based on priority rather than preference.
- Breadth of audience. Able to serve application engineering, model training, hardware and firmware, and developer infrastructure teams without defaulting to the needs of only one.
- Mission engagement. Interested in supporting a growing team and the work it is doing, not solely in the technical problem.
- Documentation discipline. Willing to write things down, because the engagement's value should not evaporate when it ends.
Plusses (not required)
- DevOps or platform engineering background, particularly building self-service capability for internal engineering teams
- Prior security engineering experience or a security specialization
- Kubernetes familiarity, given the main application workload
- Amazon AI services familiarity, given the model training context
- KMS key policy and grant design experience
- AWS Control Tower or equivalent landing zone and account vending experience
- Experience implementing the AWS Security Reference Architecture (SRA)
- Relevant certification signal — AWS Certified Security – Specialty, or Solutions Architect – Professional with demonstrated security depth. AWS CloudOps Engineer also valuable.
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