Senior Cloud Security Engineer - Remote & Automation Focus

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc.; Maryland; Hybrid; USD 124.000 - 150.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. seeks an experienced Senior Cloud Security Engineer to design, implement, operate, and continuously improve security across AWS and on‑premises data centers supporting business and critical scientific workloads.

The role emphasizes hands‑on engineering with strong expertise in AWS security, Palo Alto technologies, and security automation, including IaC and DevSecOps. Occasional onsite at Rockville, MD with remote capabilities.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on cloud security engineering experience.
• Demonstrated experience designing, deploying, managing, and troubleshooting AWS security services.
• Experience securing hybrid on-premises/AWS environments.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, scripting and security automation.
• Strong understanding of networking and security fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, network segmentation, VPNs, TLS/PKI, encryption, IAM, Zero Trust, and threat detection/prevention.
• Experience troubleshooting complex security and network issues.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust.

Aufgaben

• Design and implement security controls for AWS multi-account and hybrid-cloud environments.
• Deploy and manage AWS security capabilities, including Network Firewall, WAF, Shield, Security Groups/NACLs, GuardDuty, Security Hub, CloudTrail, Config, IAM/Identity Center, KMS, VPC, and Transit Gateway controls.
• Design secure connectivity, segmentation, and security boundaries between AWS and on-premises environments.
• Develop secure, resilient architectures spanning AWS and on‑premises infrastructure using defense‑in‑depth and Zero Trust principles.
• Modernize environment to leverage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Automate security operations, compliance reporting, configuration management, and policy enforcement using APIs, scripting, DevSecOps tooling, and AI‑assisted engineering tools.
• Support security controls and evidence mapping aligned with frameworks such as NIST 800‑53/800‑171, FedRAMP, and FISMA.
• Evaluate existing security architectures and identify improvements in security, resiliency, scalability, performance, and operational efficiency.
• Troubleshoot complex cloud, network, firewall, and application‑connectivity issues.
• Support security incidents, production outages, and root‑cause analysis.
• Develop monitoring, logging, alerting, dashboards, runbooks, and engineering standards.
• Perform performance tuning, capacity planning, and security infrastructure lifecycle management.
• Participate in on‑call or escalation support as required.

Kenntnisse

AWS security

Palo Alto Firewalls

IaC

Security automation

Zero Trust

Hybrid-cloud security

Threat detection

DevSecOps

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Bash

Palo Alto Panorama

Jobbeschreibung

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. seeks an experienced Senior Cloud Security Engineer to design, implement, operate, and continuously improve security across AWS and on‑premises data centers supporting business and critical scientific workloads.

The role emphasizes hands‑on engineering with strong expertise in AWS security, Palo Alto technologies, and security automation, including IaC and DevSecOps. Occasional onsite at Rockville, MD with remote capabilities.