Security Engineer, Cloud Security - Saronic - New Orleans, LA (+3 others)

Saronic Technologies is a leader in revolutionizing defense autonomy at sea, dedicated to developing state-of-the-art solutions that enhance maritime operations for the Department of Defense (DoD) through autonomous and intelligent platforms.

Security at Saronic is a force multiplier. We're seeking a Security Engineer at the senior-level or above to own the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of security guardrails across our cloud infrastructure. You won't just secure the cloud; you'll build the systems and patterns that enable every team at Saronic to move fast and ship with confidence, with security baked in from the start. You will be the technical authority on how we architect, govern, and defend our AWS environments across commercial and GovCloud.

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Key Responsibilities
Own the security architecture for Saronic's AWS environments, including multi-account strategy, network segmentation, identity architecture, and data protection across commercial AWS and AWS GovCloud
Design and maintain secure-by-default Terraform modules and IaC standards that teams adopt as the standard path, enforcing least privilege, secure defaults, and compliance requirements
Implement preventive controls (SCPs, permission boundaries, policy-as-code) and detective controls (Config rules, CloudTrail analysis, GuardDuty) as a unified, layered security model
Design and enforce IAM patterns across AWS accounts, services, and workloads including least-privilege policies, permission boundaries, cross-account access, federation, and service-to-service authentication
Implement and govern secrets management using tools such as AWS Secrets Manager or Vault, integrated into CI/CD and runtime environments
Partner with DevOps and Platform Engineering to embed security into CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure provisioning, and deployment workflows
Build automated compliance validation into infrastructure pipelines and replace manual security gates with automated guardrails wherever