Senior Cloud Security Engineer
Contract W2
12 Months
No Travel Required
Hybrid
$80 - $90/hr
Asterism IT Solutions
Fitment
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Job Details
Skills
- Microsoft
- Information Security Governance
- Log Management
- Incident Management
- Log Analysis
- Identity Management
- Intellectual Property
- IP
- IT Management
- IaaS
- Enterprise Architecture
- Firewall
- IOC
- Data Analysis
- DevOps
- Documentation
- Computer Networking
- Continuous Improvement
- Cloud Security
- Cyber Security
- Cloud Architecture
- Vulnerability Management
- Test Equipment
- Threat Analysis
- Splunk
- System On A Chip
- Vulnerability Scanning
- Security Controls
- Security Operations
- Risk Management
- Security+
- Regulatory Compliance
- SIEM
- WAF
- Network Security
- Risk Assessment
- Workflow
- Network Engineering
- RBAC
- SEC
- NIST 800-53
- Nessus
- Network
- Management
- Cisco Certifications
- Cloud Computing
- Application Development
- Mentorship
- Access Control
- Analytics
- Auditing
- Microsoft Azure
- Migration
Summary
Job Title: Senior Cloud Security Engineer
Visa: Any Visa
Location: Hybrid – Mechanicsville, VA
Interview: Either Phone or In Person
VDOT is seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Security Engineer (Sr CSE) to implement and support the agency’s cloud and computing infrastructure. The Senior Cloud Security Engineer will serve as a subject matter expert supporting VDOT’s enterprise Azure migration, responsible for architecting, implementing, and securing cloud environments in alignment with SEC530 principles, Zero Trust, and enterprise compliance frameworks.
The Senior Cloud Security Engineer will be responsible for assisting in the design, implementation, securing, monitoring, and the continuous improvement of VDOT’s cloud infrastructure and services across the enterprise. The position provides senior-level technical leadership for cloud security architecture, identity and access management, network security, security monitoring, vulnerability management, incident response, and cloud governance.
The Senior Cloud Security Engineer works closely with Cloud Engineering, Network Engineering, Security Operations, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, Application Development, DevOps, Risk Management, and IT leadership to ensure cloud environments are secure, resilient, compliant, and aligned with enterprise security standards.
Key Responsibilities:
• Identify cloud security vulnerabilities, assess risk based on business impact, prioritize remediation, track remediation activities, and validate corrective actions
• Identify cloud security vulnerabilities, assess risk based on business impact, prioritize remediation, track remediation activities, and validate corrective actions
• Lead complex cloud security initiatives and provide technical directions to engineers. Also assist in the design of secure cloud architecture for complex enterprise environments
• Influence architecture and security decisions and prevent insecure configurations from reaching production and implement security gates within deployment pipelines.
• Explain complex security risks to non-technical stakeholders
• Assess cloud security risks and security gaps and recommend appropriate remediations. Create and maintain security documentation and evidence as well as support audits and assessments.
• Review proposed cloud solutions for security risk and define appropriate security and compensation controls.
• Will develop Azure policies to enforce standardization and compliance with enterprise requirements, as well as creating Azure Automation runbooks to support incident response workflows.
• Monitor security events using SIEM technologies and work with VDOT’s SOC team to coordinate incident response activities.
• Identifies and diagnoses system problems and threats by using system logs, line monitors, SIEM, diagnostic software, and test equipment.
• Lead investigation and containment of cloud security incidents.
• Review firewall and NSG rule requests and ensure compliance with security standards.
• Must have the ability to provide documentation, architecture topology diagrams, IP schemes and access controls when required.
• Must have the ability to work independently on assigned projects.
Skill | Required / Desired | Amount | of Experience |
Enterprise Cloud Experience | Required | 8 | Years |
Enterprise Cloud Security Experience | Required | 5 | Years |
Candidate must be highly experienced as a cloud security professional with strong hands-on expertise in cloud infrastructure and cloud engineering | Required | ||
Candidatte must be highly experienced in cybersecurity, networking, identity, security operations, and have a deep cloud engineering competency | Required | ||
Candidate must have in-depth experience moving between strategic architecture and hands-on engineering and identifying security risks | Required | ||
Candidate must have in-depth experience designing practical solutions, implementing controls, and working with infrastructure teams | Required | ||
Candidate musth have in-depth experience working with application teams to continuously improve the organization's cloud security posture | Required | ||
Candidate must have experience setting up Network Security Groups (NSGs), resource manager and management groups, monitor and log analytics, | Required | ||
Candidate must have experience setting up Azure Firewall, Azure WAF, Azure Monitor, Application Gateways, virtual networks and network segmentation. | Required | ||
Candidate must have experiences in: Incident response, Security investigations, Log analysis, Threat intelligence, Security monitoring, IOC analysis | Required | ||
Candidate must have experiences coordinating during cyber incidents | Required | ||
Candidate must have experience in vulnerability management, remediation tracking, vulnerability scanning tools (e.g. Nessus, Tenable, Defender) | Required | ||
Candidate must have experience securing enterprise cloud environments and implementing security controls in production environments | Required | ||
Candidate must have experience with the SIEM products (e.g. Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, CNAPP), | Required | ||
Candidate must have experience with log management, security analytics, SOC integration, Threat detection, and Threat hunting | Required | ||
Candidate must also have hands on expertise validating indexer parsers, leveraging Splunk Query Language for monitoring and data analysis. | Required | ||
Candidate must have experience collaborating with the security governance team and application leads to implement enterprise log management standards. | Required | ||
Candidate must have experience with; SEC530, CIS Benchmarks, NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, Zero Trust principles | Required | ||
Candidate must have experience in cloud vulnerability management, remediation tracking, and risk assessment and prioritization | Required | ||
Candidate must have experience in cloud risk assessment and prioritization, attack surface management, and Cloud Security Posture Management (VSPM) | Required | ||
Candidate must have experience in Cloud Workload Protection (CWPP) and Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) | Required | ||
Candidate must have experience developing Azure Policy to enforce standardization and compliance with enterprise requirements | Required | ||
Candidate must have experience creating Azure Automation runbooks to support incident response workflows. | Required | ||
Candidate must have experience with Identity and access management (IAM), Role-based Access control (RBAC), and Privileged Access Management (PAM) | Required | ||
Candidate must have experience with Least-privilege access and multi-factor authentication | Required | ||
Candidate must have experience working in highly regulated environments with large government agencies or similar regulatory environments. | Required | ||
Candidate must have ability to communicate technical issues to technical, non-techical, and executive audiences. | Required | ||
Candidate must have ability mentor junior engineers. | Required | ||
Required: Azure Security Engineer Associate, Security+, Certified Cloud Security Professional certifications | Required | ||
Preferred: CCSP, Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure (AZ-305) | Desired |
Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.
- Dice Id: 91173046
- Position Id: 9118943
- Posted 2 hours ago
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