Senior Cloud Security Operations Lead Public Trust Eligible

Cherokee Federal; United States; On-site; USD 165,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Cherokee Federal is seeking a Senior Cloud Technical Project Manager to lead cloud security operations for NSF. You will own incident response, detection engineering, and enabling secure, scalable AWS environments using Splunk ES and Prisma Cloud.

Responsibilities include maturing CSPM, logging integration, incident playbooks, and federal compliance with FISMA/NIST 800-53. Strong leadership and clear executive communication are required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in cybersecurity, cloud security, or security operations.
• 3+ years leading technical teams.
• Hands-on with production cloud security (AWS/Azure; GCP acceptable).
• Strong SIEM, log onboarding, alert tuning, and investigations.
• Knowledge of IAM, encryption, networking, and secure configurations.
• Experience with vulnerability management and cross-team remediation.
• Ability to write concise operational docs and exec-ready reports.
• Public Trust preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead cloud security operations for NSF AWS environments (triage, investigation, containment, recovery).
• Own Splunk ES content: CIM alignment, correlation searches, dashboards, reporting.
• Own CSPM outcomes in Prisma Cloud: posture baselines, policy standards, remediation workflows.
• Engineer AWS logging/detection, integrating CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, GuardDuty, CloudWatch, Security Hub.
• Lead detection engineering mapped to MITRE ATT&CK; improve fidelity and reduce false positives.
• Define AWS incident response playbooks, evidence capture, timelines, post-incident actions.
• Drive compliance with FISMA/NIST 800-53; support audits with evidence packages.
• Collaborate with cloud, network, app teams for guardrails (IAM least privilege, MFA, KMS).
• Prioritize remediation of misconfigurations and automate workflows.

Skills

Cloud security leadership

Incident response

SIEM operations

MITRE ATT&CK

Security governance

FISMA/NIST compliance

Public Trust readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

Splunk ES

Prisma Cloud

AWS

Azure

GCP

CloudTrail

VPC Flow Logs

AWS Config

CloudWatch

GuardDuty

Security Hub

IAM

Job description

Cherokee Federal is seeking a Senior Cloud Technical Project Manager to lead cloud security operations for NSF. You will own incident response, detection engineering, and enabling secure, scalable AWS environments using Splunk ES and Prisma Cloud.

Responsibilities include maturing CSPM, logging integration, incident playbooks, and federal compliance with FISMA/NIST 800-53. Strong leadership and clear executive communication are required.