Position Details:

Position: Cloud Security Engineer

Pay Range: $80-$85/hr.

Location: Plano, TX

Duration: 12-18 Months (Possibility of Full-Time Conversion)                              

Must Haves:

• 10+ years working as a Cloud Security Engineer
• 5+ years’ experience with development, deployment and automation of security solutions in large enterprise environments to connect to cloud solutions such as AWS while maintaining secure operations
• AWS experience
• Knowledge of cloud computing technologies
• Understanding of firewalls, VPNs, IDS/IPS, and security event analysis

Day To Day:

• Provide security expertise on system, network, encryption, authentication, and governance
• Work with third-party vendors to ensure that security requirements are met
• Collaborate with IT and development teams to ensure cloud solutions are securely integrated with existing software and infrastructure
• Engage with other senior technical leaders throughout organization in design and implementation of cloud-based implementations and solutions
• Drive the security standards and tool strategies for public and private cloud solutions
• Conduct technology assessments to establish and validate an enterprise security baseline and establish a technical direction
• Set technical standards for Cloud infrastructure, containers, security baselines, policies and procedures
• Analyze security configurations and provide vulnerability reports
• Help establish best practices, migration strategies, and work with engineers to build environments that adhere to industry best practices
• Serve as the primary interface to governance, compliance, and risk management teams to ensure the system consistently meets the requirements for certification and accreditation
• Facilitate security automation by working with cloud service provider APIs, SDKs, and custom source code
• Use standard security frameworks to perform gap analysis between different cloud providers, cloud type, and level of certification in the context of compliance efforts
• Write, maintain, and expand automation scripts and monitoring tools
• Research and propose automated system and code analysis solutions