Cloud Security Engineer

Job Description

Cloud Security Engineer

The ideal candidate must have strong foundation across Amazon Web Services technology stack and AWS security offerings and the ability to communicate security and risk-related concepts. The Cloud Security Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and implementing enterprise-class security solutions and controls in production cloud environments. The Cloud Security Engineer creates deployable solutions that balance business requirements with information security requirements. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Required:

Develop guidelines and review security configurations related to AWS / Azure Cloud deployments and common web application frameworks

Designing, planning, and implementing security tools, controls, policies, and processes

Utilize experiences in AWS, Azure cloud environments to assist developer teams in efforts to maintain the security of environments throughout deployment

Support the administration and management of native cloud security services and other solutions that are deployed to secure cloud infrastructure

Serve as an escalation path for team members to trouble shoot security related inquiries

Deep experience with AWS: VPCs, IAM, security groups, EC2, EBS, Lambda, Cloud Watch Events, etc.

Experience and knowledge integrating enterprise scale security solutions in AWS and/or Azure, including user, security, and networking configurations

Experience integrating marketplace leading vulnerability management (e.g. Tenable, CrowdStrike, SCCM), threat management (e.g. Archer, Phantom), monitoring (e.g. Splunk, ELK), and data protection processes and platform tools

Experience building and operating automated security operations, including experience scripting configuration automation

A history of delivering and an understanding of security controls in federal environments

Experience with CI/CD - Deployment pipelines, and automated build and configuration tools such as Jenkins and terraform

Strong knowledge of industry trends in security technology

Excellent communication skills and the ability to partner and collaborate with both engineers and business users on architecture vision and security model

Action oriented with high standard for quality and performance

Proactive at finding solutions to complex problems

Preferred Certifications:

Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional