Senior AWS Cloud Security Engineer d/f/m

Salary: £58,000 - 98,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong hands-on experience securing and operating AWS environments at scale, with a solid understanding of AWS security architecture, shared responsibility principles and cloud-native security controls.
• Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps principles and security automation.
• Knowledge of SSDLC practices and threat modelling.
• Ability to review cloud architectures and technical designs from a security perspective.
• Understanding of authentication and authorization patterns.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to translate security requirements into clear guidance for application teams.
• Curiosity and continuous learning mindset, including interest in AI-assisted security operations, intelligent automation, and responsible use of emerging technologies.
• Experience in governing large multi-account AWS environments.
• Relevant professional certifications such as AWS Certified Security – Specialty, AWS Solutions Architect, CISSP, CCSP or comparable qualifications.
• Experience with AWS security services and platform capabilities.
• Familiarity with security frameworks and standards such as CIS Benchmarks, NIST, ISO 27001 or AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar.
• Experience working in a regulated, financial, energy or other business-critical technology environment.
• Experience applying AI-assisted tools safely for code review, vulnerability triage, log analysis, anomaly detection, documentation, or security automation.
• Academic degree in cyber security, computer science, or a comparable field.
• Proficiency in spoken and written German.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and improve security controls for AWS platform services.
• Translate security requirements into reusable platform patterns, guardrails and operational controls that teams can adopt consistently.
• Review AWS architectures, permissions, configuration settings and deployment approaches to identify weaknesses and recommend pragmatic remediations.
• Implement and improve AWS security monitoring, logging and alerting to detect misconfigurations, suspicious activity, and potential security incidents.
• Support incident response readiness by improving observability, evidence collection, recovery documentation, and operational playbooks for AWS platform services.
• Work closely with application teams, platform engineers and security stakeholders to embed security from the start.
• Help secure, evolve and operate the AWS platform that teams across our organization rely on to build and run business-critical applications.
• Identify and remediate risks, integrate security controls into the platform, improve vulnerability and configuration management, and help shape secure cloud practices.

Technologies:

• AI
• AWS
• Architect
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevSecOps
• Support
• Security
• Terraform
• DevOps

More:

We are RWE Supply & Trading GmbH, and our AWS Platform team supports the secure operation and evolution of our AWS platform for business-critical applications. We offer a full-time or part-time permanent role starting as soon as possible, with a modern company culture, flat hierarchies, strong team spirit, a diverse team, continuous learning and development opportunities, an innovative environment in a dynamic and growing energy market, strong management support, an agile setup working on impactful projects, and an excellent compensation and benefits package including retirement plans and performance bonuses. Headquartered in Essen, Germany, we are RWE Supply & Trading, our connection to the worlds energy markets, with a team of over 2,300 professionals from around 90 countries trading electricity, gas, commodities, and CO2 emission allowances, creating innovative energy supply solutions and tailored risk management concepts for industrial clients. We also ensure the commercial optimisation of our power plant portfolio and market the electricity generated by RWE, while our legally independent gas storage companies in Germany contribute to a secure energy supply.

last updated 36 week of 2026