Cloud Security Engineer

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field.
• 8 years of applicable professional experience.

Job Description

• Develop detailed guidance for cloud workloads that ensure compliance with Government security and regulatory requirements such as NIST SP 800-53 security controls.
• Collaborate with cloud-focused teams across various organizations to design, test, and implement cloud workload security configurations and solutions.
• Facilitate the creation of procedures and cybersecurity guidance for migrations from legacy cloud environments or hardware environments into AWS.
• Evaluate and research cloud services and make recommendations for security configurations of those services to ensure data is appropriately protected.
• Evaluate and research cloud security technologies and make recommendations for their use.

Required Experience

• Customer facing skills to drive discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, best practices, project management and risk mitigation.
• Experience with cloud computing and virtualization platforms.
• Ability to quickly learn and shift in step with the latest cloud-computing, networking, and infrastructure management technologies.
• Excellent communication, writing, problem solving, and architectural whiteboarding skills.
• Strong knowledge of application system and network architectures and associated security principles including protection of data at rest, in transit, and in process.
• Knowledge of security and compliance requirements for cloud-based solutions.

Desired Experience

• A commercial Cloud Certification at the Associate level, a specialty, or higher; AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud are preferred.
• Familiarity with the Risk Management Framework/Zero-Trust Implementation.
• Experience with security-focused AWS concepts and services including IAM (Identity Access Management), SCPs (Security Control Policies), AWS Key Management Service, AWS Config, AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, and Inspector.

Pay

$225,000 - $235,000 annually.

Benefits

• 25 days PTO.
• 11 paid holidays.
• 100% employer-paid healthcare for employees and dependents – available day 1.
• 8% 401(k) employer match – immediate vesting.