Cloud Security Engineer

Location: Any
Salary: $98K-$162K

About the Company

Coins is fully regulated by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and is the first ever crypto-based company in Asia to hold both Virtual Currency and Electronic Money Issuer licenses from a central bank.

Responsibilities

• Lead security architecture assessment and hardening for cloud platforms (primarily AWS); define and maintain cloud security baselines, policies, and standards.
• Continuously monitor the security posture of the cloud environment (IAM, networking, storage, compute, etc.); identify, analyze, and assess security vulnerabilities and configuration risks, evaluating their severity and business impact.
• Own the vulnerability remediation lifecycle end-to-end: define remediation plans and priorities, guide and drive engineering and operations teams to complete fixes, and track and verify remediation outcomes.
• Build and improve cloud security monitoring, alerting, and automated detection mechanisms (e.g., CSPM, CNAPP tools).
• Participate in security incident response, producing root cause analyses and improvement recommendations.
• Produce security assessment reports and communicate cloud risk posture to management.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in cloud security or information security, including at least 3 years focused on AWS environments.
• Strong command of core AWS services (IAM, VPC, S3, EC2, KMS, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Security Hub, etc.) and their security best practices.
• Solid vulnerability identification and risk assessment skills; familiarity with common cloud security frameworks (CIS Benchmark, NIST, MITRE ATT&CK for Cloud).
• Proven experience driving remediation efforts across teams, with strong communication and project coordination skills.
• Familiarity with at least one CSPM/CNAPP tool (e.g., Wiz, Prisma Cloud, AWS Security Hub).
• Scripting/automation skills (Python, Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.) are a plus.

Benefits

• Meaningful Collaborations: The successful candidate will work cross-functionally with other relevant teams to carry out implementations that will improve and create an impact on customer experience.
• Scalable Growth: Be part of a fast-growing organization with the vision to expand its territories outside APAC which will provide opportunities for career advancement.
• A Space For Bright Ideas: Let your bright ideas be converted into meaningful changes! Coins culture welcomes new ideas backed up by data to create an impact.