AWS Cloud SecOps Engineer

Position Summary:

As a SecOps Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the security of our systems and infrastructure. You will work closely with our development and DevOps teams to identify and remediate vulnerabilities, implement security best practices, and automate security processes. You will conduct security assessments of our systems and infrastructure to identify vulnerabilities and risks and identify risk owners and implement mitigating controls.

The SecOps engineer will build and run high quality, secure and non-impactful deployments to power samsung.com. We do continuous integration and deployment to dev/test environments and multiple production releases per day. This is a highly technical position that requires a broad set of cloud security skills that include deployment technologies, monitoring and scripting to networking and infrastructure.

What we are looking for

Work directly with our clients as an AWS Cloud SecOps Engineer

Improve and remediate security in existing AWS accounts, infrastructure and resources based on client corporate security standards and AWS security best practices.

Experience with remediating security in IAM, S3, Security Groups, NACL, IGW, NFW, VPC, Endpoints and other AWS resources

Expertise in writing JSON IAM and S3 policies – deep understanding of AWS policy language

Experience in AWS account security auditing

Experience in scripting using AWS API’s (boto3 or AWS cli)

Understanding of TCP/IP networking principles

Develop and maintain secure and reliable cloud infrastructure (OS security patching, secure backups, monitoring, secure logging, and IAM user account creation)

Support or modify underlying AWS infrastructure and services for security hardening.

Familiarity with cloud deployment automation, as well as CI/CD pipeline builds to support cloud-based workloads.

Provide experience, knowledge and develop competency on Terraform, Ansible and Cloud native automation tools.

Stay on top of the latest AWS security trends and develop expertise in emerging cloud security technologies!

Develop and maintain technical documentation in Atlassian Confluence

Excellent experience using Atlassian Jira ticketing and Jira project management.

Troubleshoot technical security issues.

Qualifications

AWS Security-Specialty certification with a minimum of five years practical experience securing AWS environments.

Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related technical field, and two years of experience in related software or systems

7+ years overall industry experience.

Work experience:

DevOps: automation experience on Amazon AWS

Cloud: Amazon AWS, AWS Marketplace, PaaS, IaaS, SaaS

Platforms and tools: Bash, python, or other scripting languages

DevOps/Automation: Terraform, Ansible

Experience with networking and compute infrastructure such as servers, database, firewalls and load balancers

Experience with current information security practices and procedures

Experience with Palo Alto Prisma Cloud CSPM, CWP and AppSec is a plus.

Cloud Solutions Architect-Associate level or above and AWS Security Specialty certifications

Hands-on experience with Jira and Confluence

Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills

Excellent oral and written communication skills

About IDEXCEL, INC

Idexcel is an IT services organization, with a mission to bring great people and great organizations together. Our diverse client base represents a wide range of industries, including technology, telecom, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, banking & financial services, food & commodities trading and federal organizations. Our teams of experienced recruiters work directly with client companies seeking exceptional people to help with their business initiatives.

Idexcel, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive. Consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, military status, national origin, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or applicable local law.