Cloud Security Engineer

Net2Source (N2S); Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology consulting firm in Dallas is seeking a Mid-Senior level Support Engineer to design and manage Virtual Private Cloud environments. You will leverage your cloud computing expertise and mentor junior team members. The ideal candidate has a strong background in AWS, Terraform, and cloud security. This contract position offers a salary range of $130,000 - $160,000.

Qualifications

• Strong technical knowledge in cloud security and IT infrastructure.
• Experience with regulatory compliance like NIST, PCI, ISO 27001.
• Ability to work autonomously and provide feedback in an agile environment.

Responsibilities

• Support customers and junior team members.
• Design and implement Virtual Private Cloud environments.
• Mentor junior team members and create knowledge articles.

Skills

Cloud computing

AWS Infrastructure

Terraform IaC deployments

Security automation

Experience with Kubernetes

DevSecOps

Analytical skills

Education

Architecture certification (Google, Amazon, Azure)

Information Security Certification (ISO 27001, CISSP, CISM)

Tools

Splunk

PaloAlto firewall

Docker

Ansible

Job description

Job Description

• Support engineer for customers, as well as the more junior members of the team
• Work with the customer and lead architect on designing and implementing Virtual Private Cloud VPC environments, including compute, storage, database, networking, security etc. in the CSP ecosystem
• Deep technical expertise across multiple technical domains including cloud computing, security, identity and access management and IT infrastructure.
• Strong technical knowledge on AWS Infrastructure & security services (EC2, ELB, Guardduty, Config, Inspector, Security Hub, RDS, Route53, S3, vpc, vpn, tgw, cloudwatch, cloudtrail, eventbridge, etc.)
• Hands on experience in terraform IaC deployments and ability to implement security automation.
• Strong experience working on enterprise security solutions such as WAF, IPS, DDOS, and SIEM.
• Good technical experience managing products like Splunk enterprise security, Tenable Nessus, PaloAlto firewall, Cortex XSOAR.
• Cloud security knowledge in the areas of CSPM, Endpoint security solutions and Vulnerability Management.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps tools and processes, and CI/CD systems
• Experience with cloud containers and/or Kubernetes security best practices.
• Good understanding of security controls related to regulatory requirements, such as NIST, PCI, ISO 27001, HIPAA compliance etc
• Deploy/Manage CSP environments including VPN solutions between regions and subnets
• Manage CSP Image architecture including the development of machine templates and blueprints
• Leading junior team members through deployment and implementation of systems infrastructure projects and overseeing the Cloud environments based on customer requirements
• Validation to ensure that the environment meets all security and compliance controls
• Leveraging written and verbal communication skills to work directly with customers and translate business needs into technical requirements for implementation
• Creating knowledge articles and run books for solutions developed
• Mentoring junior members of the team
• Architecture certification (Google, Amazon, Azure) from a major cloud platform.
• Information Security Certification is a plus: ISO 27001, CISSP or CISM or other equivalent.
• Experience working on FedRamp compliant projects is a plus.
• Experience working in 24x7 Operations and Managed Service model, supporting external customers.
• Long working knowledge and experience of AWS (Azure and GCP optional) Services and Offerings such as Infrastructure, Networking, Messaging, Application Services, Migration Services, Cost Management Platform
• Working knowledge of Configuration Management (Ansible preferred) Continuous Integration Tools (GitLAB, GitHub, Jenkins)
• Can work autonomously, deliver with minimal supervision from a set of requirements
• Prior experience provisioning and spinning up Kubernetes Clusters and managing Kubernetes installations
• Hands on Terraform experience
• Possession of excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills
• Experience working in Federal or State government environments
• Ability to function in an agile‑based environment and provide good daily feedback on team stand‑up call
• Proven experience of Security and Vulnerability management and related tools (OKTA, Tenable, TrendMicro, XSoar, CyberARK)
• In depth knowledge of UNIX/Linux and Windows Environment
• End to End configuration & trouble shooting of the web and application servers (Nginx, Apache, Tomcat, IIS)
• Good written and verbal English communication
• Production experience to build scalable systems (load balancers, memcached, master/slave architectures)
• Experience supporting a managed services infrastructure (Public cloud)
• Prior work with Cloud Monitoring tools (Dynatrace preferred, DataDog, Nagios, Cacti, CloudWatch, Gnaglia, etc.)
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, etc.)
• Other Open Source tools used in the infrastructure space (Packer, Terraform, Vagrant, etc.)

Seniority Level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Contract

Job function

• Information Technology
• Banking and Telecommunications

Dallas, TX $130,000 - $160,000 2 weeks ago

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