Cloud Security Engineer-

Cloud Security Engineer - AWS

• Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide or Newcastle (Hybrid)
• 12-month contract + extensions
• Must hold an active Baseline Security Clearence

We're looking for an experienced Cloud Security Engineer with a strong background in AWS and AI/ML security to join a high-performing, collaborative team delivering cutting-edge cloud solutions.You'll work on innovative projects focused on AI-enabled platforms, helping design and implement robust security controls to protect critical systems, data, and models in a modern AWS environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Apply AWS security and cloud infrastructure principles, including IAM, network design, encryption, logging, and secure‑by‑design practices, to protect data and systems.
• Container Image Security - scanning, hardening, base image governance
• Kubernetes RBAC design and namespace isolation
• Pod security standards
• Securing AWS Bedrock
• Prompt injection and jailbreak mitigation
• Promote and implement secure cloud architecture best practices, and adoption of modern, automated, and repeatable engineering approaches.
• Protect AI systems (models, data, infrastructure) from attack, misuse and unintended behaviour
• Detect and fix cloud misconfigurations and protect and secure platform workloads, data and configurations
• Ensure all work complies with relevant legislation, policies, requirements, and compliance standards
• Maintain awareness of emerging AWS services, cloud security tools, and industry trends, and apply relevant innovations to improve organisational capability.
• Collaborate effectively with delivery teams, platform teams, security teams, and stakeholders to enforce secure cloud practices and alignment with security policies.
• Communicate clearly and effectively with technical and non‑technical stakeholders, including documenting solution designs, and ongoing support procedures.
• Actively contribute to a positive team culture by mentoring, coaching, and upskilling colleagues in cloud security engineering practices.
• Participate effectively in Agile delivery environments, contributing to planning, estimation, sprint activities, and continuous improvement within SCRUM or similar frameworks.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years' experience protecting cloud-based systems from misconfiguration, breaches, and misuse.
• Hands-on experience protecting AI systems (models, data, infrastructure) from attack, misuse and unintended behaviour
• Hands‑on experience designing and configuring secure cloud environments with least-privilege access (networks, storage and compute with IAM roles/policies)
• Strong experience with DevSecOps & automation
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Ansible) for automation
• Strong knowledge of AWS security principles and security compliance frameworks e.g. ASD Essential Eight/ISM, ISO27001.
• Minimum tertiary level qualification in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent
• Experience with DevOps/GitOps, including CI/CD and version control

Desired:

• AWS Certified Security Specialty (SCS-03) or equivalent
• Experience working in complex enterprise cloud environments
• Highly developed problem-solving skills and ability to work independently
• Experience working in an Agile delivery environment
• Strong collaboration and communication skills
• Open minded and able to pivot to diverse cloud engineering work

If you wish to apply for this position, please submit your resume by clicking the 'Apply Now' button. For further information please contact Abhi Naik at Clicks IT Recruitment on +61 427 997 851.

At Clicks we embrace diversity, inclusion and equal opportunity. First Nations people are encouraged to apply.

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