Senior Cloud Security Engineer

Overview

Hybrid
$80 - $90
Contract - W2
Contract - 12 Month(s)
10% Travel

Skills

Information Security
AWS/ Azure
Cloud Security Design
Operations and Automation
AWS / Azure Certification

Job Details

  • Client: State of South Carolina
  • Job ID: 7354
  • Job Title: Senior Cloud Security Engineer
  • Due: 7/14/2025 at 5:00PM EST.
  • Interview Process: 1 round - virtual
  • Duration of the Contract: 12 months
  • Possibility for Extension: Yes
  • Work Location: Hybrid work schedule (3 days remote, 2 days in office) & Candidate location - candidates must be in South Carolina (willing to consider candidates that will relocate from Georgia or North Carolina)

Required Skills

  • 5-10 YEARS' EXPERIENCE IN INFORMATION SECURITY AND ENGINEERING
  • EXPERIENCE DESIGNING AND MAINTAINING INFRASTRUCTURE IN AWS/AZURE
  • CLOUD SECURITY DESIGN, OPERATIONS, AND AUTOMATION EXPERIENCE
  • DOCUMENTATION OF SECURITY TOOLS, DEPLOYMENT CONFIGURATION, INCIDENT REPORTS, ETC.
  • MUST HOLD AWS OR AZURE CERTIFICATION

Preferred

  • EXPERIENCE DEPLOYING, CONFIGURING AND MAINTAINING CLOUD VM SERIES PALO ALTO
  • FIREWALLS IN AWS AND AZURE
  • PRISMA CLOUD
  • FORESCOUT
  • CISCO UMBRELLA
  • PALO ALTO FIREWALLS
  • F5 LOAD BALANCING/FIREWALL
  • CISSP - CERTIFIED INFORMATION SYSTEMS SECURITY PROFESSIONAL SC100
  • MICROSOFT CYBERSECURITY ARCHITECT AWS CERTIFIED CLOUD SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT
  • PRISMA CERTIFIED CLOUD SECURITY ENGINEER, PCNSA, PCNSE

Responsibilities:

  • Design and deploy highly available, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure and apps with a focus on AWS and Azure Cloud.
  • Design and develop automation to build cloud security accelerators and IP.
  • Experience with Security Operations teams to build and maintain SIEM, SOAR and XDR technology.
  • Analyze and resolve configuration issues in development, test, and production environments.
  • Familiar with major security compliance frameworks and building effective monitoring, logging, and auditing of production systems to ensure compliance with mandated compliance policies (e.g., NIST, HIPAA, PII, SOX, PCI, CMMC, CUI, etc.)
  • Experience implementing secure (zero trust) infrastructure in cloud.
  • Security experience with state and local government customers
  • Open to Travel as needed to customer engagements
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