Cloud 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.

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 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