Cloud Security Analyst — AWS & Risk Remediation

TEKsystems; Peoria (IL); On-site; USD 36,000 - 41,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision

Critical Illness, Accident, and Health

401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and R

Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D)

Short and long-term disability

Health Spending Account (HSA)

Transportation benefits

Employee Assistance Program

Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick)

Job summary

TEKsystems in Peoria, IL is seeking a Cloud Security Consultant for a contract role. You will work with application teams to remediate vulnerabilities and help implement security policies that meet enterprise security requirements.

The ideal candidate has 1-3 years in IT security operations, experience with Prisma Cloud and ServiceNow, and relevant security certifications. Onsite role with competitive hourly pay and comprehensive benefits is offered.

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of IT security operations experience.
• Experience with Prisma Cloud toolset (Redlock, Twistlock, PureSec).
• Experience with ServiceNow.
• Professional information security certification (CISSP, CCSP, CSSLP, GISCP, GWAPT, GWEB, etc).
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills; ability to communicate highly technical security concepts to non-security audiences.
• Strong understanding and experience with information security technologies.
• Ability to coordinate multiple teams in accomplishing process review and improvement.
• Additional Cloud certifications (Azure, AWS).
• Web Application Firewall experience.
• Knowledge of security principles: defense in depth, SDLC and product development processes, IAM, business process design, web services security.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate security efforts and remediate vulnerabilities partnering with app teams to identify gaps and remediate security issues.
• Help develop policies and assist development teams in implementing solutions to close those security gaps and make services compliant to enterprise security requirements.
• Keep development teams accountable to metrics measuring risk.
• Understand security requirements and risk tolerance baselines.
• Track existing risk statements and work with risk owners to close gaps.
• Maintain current knowledge on security procedures, directives and technology controls including testing, threat modeling, and data handling.

Skills

IT security operations

Security concepts

Risk assessment

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Security certifications (CISSP, CCSP, CSSLP, GISCP, GWAPT, GWEB)

Tools

Prisma Cloud (Redlock, Twistlock, PureSec)

ServiceNow

Job description

TEKsystems in Peoria, IL is seeking a Cloud Security Consultant for a contract role. You will work with application teams to remediate vulnerabilities and help implement security policies that meet enterprise security requirements.

The ideal candidate has 1-3 years in IT security operations, experience with Prisma Cloud and ServiceNow, and relevant security certifications. Onsite role with competitive hourly pay and comprehensive benefits is offered.