Hiring: Cloud Security / AI Security Engineer | AWS IAM & Cedar Policies | Remot

About this role

Role: Cloud Security Engineer / AI Security Engineer
Location: Los Angeles, CA (Remote – 10% Travel; must be comfortable traveling to client sites for workshops and meetings)
Duration: 3+ Months (Extension Possible)
💼 Experience: 15+ Years
Primary Skills: IAM Policy Templates, Cedar Policies
Role Overview:
Seeking an experienced Security Engineer with 15+ years of experience in cloud security and identity management to secure enterprise AI applications on AWS. The role focuses on authentication, reusable IAM policy templates, Cedar-based authorization, and secure access to tools, APIs, and enterprise resources.
Key Responsibilities
1. IAM Policy Templates & Access Management

• Design, develop, and maintain reusable AWS IAM policy templates for AI agents and AgentCore infrastructure.

• Implement role-based access control (RBAC) and least-privilege security principles.

• Define IAM roles, trust policies, permission boundaries, and resource-based policies.

• Configure IAM execution roles for AgentCore Runtime and AgentCore Gateway.

• Develop standardized IAM templates for accessing AWS services such as Lambda, S3, Bedrock, API Gateway, Secrets Manager, and CloudWatch.

• Automate IAM policy deployment and configuration using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.

• Conduct IAM access reviews, permission audits, and policy validation.

• Troubleshoot access-denied issues, role-assumption failures, and authorization misconfigurations.

2. Cedar Policies at AgentCore Gateway

• Design, author, test, and deploy Cedar authorization policies using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Policy.

• Implement fine-grained authorization for AI agents accessing tools through AgentCore Gateway.

• Define policies specifying which identities can invoke particular tools, APIs, and operations.

• Configure policy engines and associate them with AgentCore Gateways.

• Implement attribute-based access control (ABAC) using identity attributes, roles, scopes, and contextual conditions.

• Develop policies that restrict sensitive tool operations based on business roles, permissions, and security requirements.

• Validate Cedar policies against gateway schemas and test permitted and denied access scenarios.

• Enforce default-deny authorization and prevent unauthorized tool execution.

• Monitor and troubleshoot authorization decisions and policy evaluation failures.

3. Security Governance & Compliance

• Implement security controls for enterprise AI agents and Generative AI applications.

• Develop security standards for agent identities, API integrations, and access management.

• Support audit logging, access traceability, and security monitoring using AWS CloudTrail and CloudWatch.

• Identify and mitigate risks including excessive privileges, credential exposure, unauthorized tool access, and privilege escalation.

• Conduct security reviews of agent architecture and integrations.

• Collaborate with AI engineering and DevOps teams to ensure secure production deployments.

4. Security Automation & DevSecOps

• Automate security policy deployment through GitHub Actions and infrastructure-as-code pipelines.

• Integrate IAM and Cedar policy validation into CI/CD workflows.

• Implement automated security checks and policy compliance testing.

• Maintain version-controlled security configurations across development, testing, and production environments.

• Support security incident investigation, access troubleshooting, and remediation.

Required Technical Skills

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AWS Security: IAM, IAM roles, policies, STS, AWS Secrets Manager, CloudTrail, CloudWatch.

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Authorization: Cedar policy language, RBAC, ABAC, fine-grained access control.

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Authentication: OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, AWS IAM authentication.

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Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation.

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Automation: Python, GitHub Actions, CI/CD security integration.

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Cloud Security: Least-privilege access, identity federation, credential management, and secure API integrations.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Originally posted on Himalayas