Remote Cyber Engineer: Cloud Security & Vulnerability Lead

Trinnex Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 123,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

CDM Smith is seeking a Cyber Engineer to advance its CTEM journey, identify and remediate vulnerabilities across internal and external systems, and collaborate with IT, security operations, and development teams to reduce risk.

You will architect, deploy, and operate secure cloud application infrastructure, applying strong scripting and automation skills and maintaining security policies and controls across SaaS/IaaS/PaaS environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 8+ years of related experience.
• Equivalent additional directly related experience considered in lieu of a degree.
• Domestic and/or international travel may be required.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain secure, resilient enterprise-grade cloud & on-prem processes in tandem with architects and system engineers.
• Secure AI & NHI at scale.
• Secure business applications and computing environments across public, private, or hybrid cloud infrastructures.
• Protect business applications in compliance with privacy, security, business resiliency, and compliance frameworks as defined in corporate policies.
• Maintain a consistent, secure environment using configuration management solutions (e.g., Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.). Conduct rigorous oversight of security systems and security configuration administration to reduce risk to enterprise systems and accounts.
• Deploy strong identity and access management (IDAM) controls across applications and computing environments.
• Assist with development, maintenance and utilization of scripts (e.g., Python, Ruby, etc.) to support custom extract, transform load (ETL) tools with a security focus for data flow.
• Attend regular technical project and implementation meetings and serve as the security consultant to help guide secure application and infrastructure configurations.
• Actively monitor, assess and recommend tactical and strategic initiatives based on new and emerging threats posing risk to cloud computing environments.
• Manage remediation efforts after security assessment findings outline weaknesses requiring attention.
• Document, formulate and enforce areas of security improvement that balance risk with business operations and do not diminish efficiencies or innovation.
• Stay apprised of current and proposed security changes impacting regulatory, privacy and security industry best practice guidance.

Skills

Cloud automation

IaC tools

Zero trust / encryption

Cross-team collaboration

Security standards

Documentation

Vulnerability mgmt

KPIs & metrics

Asset inventory automation

Remediation prioritization

Vuln assessment breadth

Attack surface / hardening

Risk-based remediation

Documentation maintenance

Collaboration

Change management

Guidance

Asset discovery

Threat analysis

Remediation validation

Purple-team

Analytical skills

Inventory management

Communication

Threat intelligence

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

CDM Smith is seeking a Cyber Engineer to advance its CTEM journey, identify and remediate vulnerabilities across internal and external systems, and collaborate with IT, security operations, and development teams to reduce risk.

You will architect, deploy, and operate secure cloud application infrastructure, applying strong scripting and automation skills and maintaining security policies and controls across SaaS/IaaS/PaaS environments.