Cloud Security Engineer

Overview

Hybrid
$60 - $70
Contract - W2
Contract - 12 Month(s)

Skills

AWS
Terraform
Ansible
Linux

Job Details

RE::Cloud Security Engineer

Location::(Hybrid/NYC)

Visa::GC&USC

The client would like to see AWS Cloud Security Engineers with 12- 15+ YEARS OF EXPERIENCE, MULTIPLE CLOUD SECURITY CERTIFICATIONS INCLUDING Security Specialist AND TERRAFORM. THE MANAGER IS VERY FOCUSED ON TERRAFORM SO THE MORE THE BETTER. candidates

 

Technical Certifications:

AWS Security Specialty

AWS SysOps Administrator

AWS Solution Architect

AWS Solution Architect Professional

THIS IS CLOUD SECURITY, NOT NETWORK (ROUTER/SWITCH) SECURITY.

Job Description:

Improve the security posture of our infrastructure including our cloud environments

Collaborate cross functionally to make design/strategy decisions and advocate for security improvements.

Respond to infrastructure security alerts and perform investigations

Evaluate cloud architectures for security related concerns, and consult on mitigation options.

This role is essentially 50% Linux / System-level security, and 50% Cloud Security

Build and manage infrastructure for security-related applications / services

 

What you will need to have:

 

12+ 15+ PREFERRED years of Infrastructure and security

8+ years of relevant experience in security with 3+ years securing cloud platforms (e.g. IAM, VPC Security, KMS)

3+ years working with and hardening Linux environments (e.g. PAM, SELinux, SSHD, auditd)

6+ Years Experience with IaC / configuration management technologies (e.g. Terraform, Puppet)

Knowledge of basic cryptography and common network protocols

Basic understanding of containers and related technologies (e.g. k8s)

Being able to review a platform change for infrastructure security concerns, researching potential problems, clearly articulate to app teams what is wrong, and then being able to support application teams from an infrastructure perspective to be able to secure the system

What would be great to have:

Bachelors in Computer Science or similar area of study, or equivalent industry experience

Experience with HIDS and NIDS tooling

Experience securing large Google Cloud Platform environments

Experience with SIEM, SOAR, and/or XDR solutions

Experience with secrets management / PKI tooling (e.g. HashiCorp Vault)

CISSP, Google Cloud Platform/AWS Cloud Security Engineer, or similar certifications

Experience with SQL, and securing database technologies such as MySQL, Snowflake, etc

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