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AWS Security Engineer
£63,000 - 63,000
Syntax Consultancy Ltd
Unit 30, Derwent Business Centre, Clarke Street, West Thurrock
£63,000 - 63,000
Requirements
Must:
- Extensive AWS Cloud Security Engineering expertise
- Active SC Security Clearance preferred
- Experience with IAM, RBAC, SCP, AWS Organizations
- Knowledge of MFA, Conditional Access, Entra AD federation
- Familiarity with CIS compliance and encryption
- Proficiency in KMS, RPO/RTO
- Experience enabling GuardDuty, Security Hub, CloudTrail, Config
- Ability to validate security during pilot and bulk migrations
- Skills in tuning monitoring dashboards, alerting, and incident triage
Responsibilities
- Take ownership of AWS Cloud Security across discovery, design, implementation, and large-scale workload migration
- Shape identity, compliance, guardrails, monitoring, and ongoing hardening for production
- Validate MFA, Conditional Access, encryption, and logging during the discovery phase
- Design and embed IAM, RBAC, federation, and authentication patterns into architectures
- Define AWS security guardrails, SCPs, monitoring, and compliance baselines
- Configure IAM roles, key management, encryption, logging, CloudTrail, Config, GuardDuty, and Security Hub
- Support Landing Zone build-out including identity federation, tagging, audit, and multi-account governance
- Implement VDI, WorkSpaces, Citrix security hardening, MFA, and admin console security
- Validate security during pilot migration and bulk migration of 200+ workloads
- Tune monitoring dashboards, alerting, and incident triage during hypercare
Description
We are a leading global IT and Digital transformation business specializing in delivering large-scale Government projects. This role offers a 6-month contract based in Essex with hybrid working options, allowing you to work remotely for 3-4 days a week and collaborate on-site for 1-2 days. We provide an exciting opportunity to be at the center of a major AWS transformation program, enhancing your skills while working on critical projects.
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