Principal Cloud Security Engineer

Principal Cloud Security Engineer

Damia Group Portugal

Skills

Remote details

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Remote from Portugal

Description

Role description and responsibilities

About the role:**As a

Principal Cloud Security Engineer, the successful candidate will partner with DevOps and CI/CD engineers and their Architects team to ensure security best practices are embedded across the company's cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Act as a strategic security leader by defining and driving cloud security principles, standards, and reference architectures across the organisation
• Use their knowledge of security architecture to help engineers build and securely operate products and services from the ground up
• Assess, design, and implement security processes and controls to meet security, compliance, and audit requirements
• Perform proactive research to identify new threats and attack vectors
• Partner with engineering teams to embed shift-left security practices throughout the software development lifecycle
• Implement and manage cloud and Kubernetes security posture management tooling to continuously monitor and reduce risk across containerised workloads

Requirements

• Proven experience working with AWS and AWS security services in a secure production environment, including IAM, Config, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and GuardDuty
• Proven experience working closely with engineering teams and supporting them on their path to shifting security left
• Background with infrastructure as code (AWS CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform), version control and CI tools such as GitLab and GitLab CI
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (AWS EKS), containers (Docker, AWS ECS), K8s admission controllers and Supply Chain Security
• Solid understanding of internet and computer network protocols, including TCP/IP, TLS, and VPN
• Good written and verbal communication skills in English
• Collaborative team player with a hands-on, can-do approach to problem-solving
• Currently living in Portugal and legally authorized to work in the country

Nice to have:

• AWS Certified Security – Specialty certification or similar
• General familiarity with AI tools and large language models (e.g., Claude by Anthropic, AWS Bedrock)

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