Cloud Security Engineer

Pyramid Consulting, Inc; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 89,544 - 95,054; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Paid sick leave

Job summary

A leading insurance industry firm in Charlotte, NC is seeking a Cloud Security Engineer for a 9-month contract with long-term potential. The role requires experience in cloud security practices, particularly with AWS, threat modeling, and CSPM tools. Responsibilities include implementing cloud security strategies, collaborating with engineering teams, and conducting security assessments. Competitive pay range of $65 - $69/hour with benefits offered. Interested candidates should apply for immediate consideration.

Qualifications

• 3 years of experience required, 5 years preferred in a related field.
• Sedentary work physical requirements.
• Strong understanding of CIS, NIST benchmarks.

Responsibilities

• Implement cloud security strategy, standards, and procedures.
• Evaluate application operations, troubleshoot issues, and drive improvements.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure security compliance of cloud services.

Skills

AWS

Threat Modeling

CSPM

Vulnerability Management

Risk Assessment

Encryption Theory

Multi-Cloud Security

Compliance Automation

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Immediate need for a talented Cloud Security Engineer. This is a 09 Months Contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Charlotte NC, Frisco TX(Hybrid). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Job ID: 26-09886

Pay Range: $65 - $69/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities

• Formulates system scope through research and fact-finding to develop or modify moderately complex information systems.
• Evaluates and implements changes to existing system logic difficulties and documentation as necessary.
• Reviews flow charts, models, and procedures and feasibility studies to design possible system solutions.
• Maintaining relationships with stakeholders, addresses stakeholder requirements and providing clients consultations to shape the future success of EA.
• Reviews technical documentation to guide system users and to assist with the ongoing operation, maintenance, and development of the system.
• Providing EA support by directing teams in baseline, target and roadmap development, transition planning, system and security management and segment architecture.
• Collaborates with system analysts, engineers, and programmers to design systems and to determine project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements, systems performance standards, and interfaces.
• Identifies and documents all system constraints, implications and consequences of various proposed system changes.
• Educates end users on system designs and functionalities through creation of training materials and conducting demos.
• Evaluates the efficiency and effectiveness of application operations and troubleshooting problems.
• Implement cloud security strategy, standards, procedures, best practices, and DevSecOps.
• Implement processes and technical controls supporting cloud security standards including integration of cloud services and workloads into corporate cybersecurity services.
• Collaborate with operations and engineering teams to implement and tune cloud-native security monitoring, tooling and reporting
• Implement CSPM tools such as wiz.io across multiple cloud platforms
• Define cloud security policies, standards, and best practices in a multi-cloud environment
• Promote awareness of corporate cybersecurity policy, standards and guidelines
• Design cloud-based network traffic flows to drive anomaly detection capability
• Mentor engineering and operations staff on unique cloud-based security controls
• Develop tools to improve cloud specific anomaly detection requirements
• Foster a culture of security by partnering with solutions architects & other business teams to balance key performance and security
• Perform regular reviews of cloud infrastructure for security, and cloud best practices.
• Develop threat models to identify risks and prioritize improvements to our architecture.
• Drive the adoption of Authentication and Authorization reference architectures for managing cloud infrastructure.
• Educate peers on applying the latest cloud native technologies when developing new services, systems and applications.
• Contribute to a secure/compliant cloud-native service catalog, repositories
• Maintain Compliance across our Production, Development and Corporate systems hosted in the public clouds
• Collaborate with engineering and operations teams toward implementing controls and processes that address identified gaps

Key Requirements and Technology Experience

• Must have skills: AWS, Threat Modeling, CSPM
• Bachelor's Degree Required
• Work Experience
• 3 Years Required; 5 Years Preferred
• Physical Requirements: Sedentary Work
• Compliance Automation
• Strong experience in vulnerability management & risk assessment
• Strong experience in implementing CIS, NIST & other benchmarks
• Encryption theory & key management (PKI)
• Multi-Cloud security experience working in the Financial industry
• Proficient in analyzing architecture patterns, diagrams, Network & application architecture
• Ability to identify threat surfaces & identify pro-active & reactive security controls to minimize the overall residual risk.
• Cloud certifications in Azure, AWS & GCP is preferred.

Our client is a leading Insurance Industry and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.

Pyramid Consulting, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.