About Horizontal Talent

Established in 2003 in the US, Horizontal solves complex challenges across two distinct businesses: Horizontal Digital and Horizontal Talent. We are consistently recognized for being a top workplace and one of the fastest-growing private companies. Horizontal Talent specializes in staffing for IT, Digital & Creative, and Business & Strategy markets. We have global offices in the US, UAE, India, Malaysia, and Australia.

Job Overview

We are looking for an experienced Cloud Security Engineer to secure cloud infrastructure and services by implementing cloud security controls and supporting secure cloud adoption. The role focuses on strengthening security across AWS environments, identifying cloud security risks, and ensuring compliance with security standards and best practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain security controls across AWS cloud environments.

• Review and secure AWS services, including IAM, EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, EKS, Lambda, CloudTrail, and GuardDuty.

• Establish and maintain cloud security architecture, standards, guardrails, and best practices.

• Perform cloud security risk assessments, configuration reviews, and security posture evaluations.

• Monitor cloud environments for security threats, suspicious activities, and configuration drifts.

• Support security incident investigations involving cloud resources and workloads.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure secure cloud deployments and compliance requirements are met.

• Support regulatory audits, cloud security assessments, and third-party security reviews.

Job Requirements

• 3–10 years of working experience in Cloud Security, Cloud Infrastructure Security, or a related cybersecurity field.

• Strong knowledge of AWS cloud security services and security best practices.

• Hands-on experience securing AWS services, including IAM, EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, EKS, Lambda, CloudTrail, and GuardDuty.

• Good understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, particularly security principles and best practices.

• Experience with Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) tools and cloud security assessments.

• Knowledge of cloud security architecture, risk assessments, configuration management, and security monitoring.

• Familiarity with cloud security compliance requirements, regulatory audits, and incident investigations.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

• Ability to collaborate effectively with cloud engineering, infrastructure, and security teams.