AWS Security Engineer

ASA Recruitment • city of edinburgh, scotland • Posted June 24, 2026

Position Overview

The Role

The AWS Security Engineer will work alongside the client’s IT Infrastructure and Cyber Team and will be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimising security controls across the client’s AWS cloud environment.

Essential Experience

  • Minimum 3 years’ experience in senior AWS security engineering.
  • Proven ability to design and implement secure cloud architectures, including identity, access, logging, monitoring, and compliance controls.
  • Expert‑level hands‑on experience with AWS security and core services, including IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Config, GuardDuty, and Security Hub.
  • Strong experience designing and implementing IAM strategies, including cross‑account access, role assumption, federation, and least privilege models; designing fine‑grained role structures across multi‑account environments.
  • Experience integrating AWS environments with enterprise identity providers (e.g....