Cloud Security Engineer
Cloud Security Engineer
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$ 110000 - 155000
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Job Description
Overview
Steampunkis the explosive collision of humancentered design and traditional government contracting. An employeeowned company with a startup mindset and timetested approaches tailored for the federal government were passionate about creating solutions that are impactful practical scalable and most importantly that meet our clients everchanging needs.
At Steampunk we believe in disrupting the status quo and setting the pace in the ecosystem of government contractors while repurposing triedandtrue methodologies. We believe in empowering our people to find creative solutions to intractable problems. We believe the best environment in which to grow and thrive is outside our comfort zone.
Contributions
As a Cloud Security Engineer you will work within our growing DevSecOps practice delivering features to support developing testing and monitoring secure cloud architectures for cloud migration cloud optimization and cloud deployment. We are looking for candidates with 35 years experience with cloud platform services cybersecurity and DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code and confirmation management automation. Responsibilities include:
- Identify and implement the most secure cloudbased solutions for the customer including components for zerotrust architectures identity and access management policy and data privacy.
- Understanding the needs of stakeholders and optimizing solutions that marry security with usability.
- Monitor cloud environments for suspicious activities with cloud native monitoring or SIEM solutions and investigate security incidents where appropriate.
- Examining infrastructure as code written by others and analyzing risk.
- Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats through risk assessment threat modeling and compliance with industry standards (e.g. NIST ISO 27011 HIPPA FISMA etc.).
- Identifying technical problems performing root cause analysis and developing updates and fixes.
- Automate security processes such as vulnerability management and patch management.
- Working with software developers and DevSecOps engineers to ensure that development follows established security processes and works as intended.
- Supportenterprise cloud security throughinfrastructure as code including any activities around automated server or network configurations largescale software deployments and monitoring and testing.
- Ensure effective design and implementation of data protection and encryption mechanisms for data at rest and in transit.
- Document asis state of the environment perform a gap analysis and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations.
- Identify analyze and resolve infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.
- Act as an individual contributor and mentor more junior team members.
- Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided.
- Present regular status updates and provide cross training to other team members.
Qualifications
Required:
- Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance
- BS Degree in an IT field OR BS in a nonIT field and 2 years related IT experience
- 5 years of total experience
- 3 Years of Experience architecting designing developing and implementing cloud solutions
- 3 Years of Experience with one or more clouds (i.e. AWS Azure or GCP)
- 3 Years of Experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub GitLab Bitbucket
- 3 Years of Experience with systems development in an Agile environment
- 3 Years of Experience implementing infrastructure as code and orchestration
- 3 Years of Experience providing conducting monitoring risk assessment threat modeling and security testing in cloud environments
- 3 Years of Experience documenting POAMs SSPs and A&A support documentation
- Experience with Azure and AWS
- Must have and maintain an active cloud or security related certification
Preferred:
- Certifications:
- AWS Certified Security Specialty
- AWS Certified Solution Solution Architect Associate
- Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills interpersonal and collaborative skills
- Experience with documenting an asis state of the environment perform a gap analysis and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations preferred
- Experience with scripting in Concourse Bash PowerShell Python Groovy or Ruby
- Experience with automation tools including Pivotal Chef Terraform CloudFormation or Ansible
About steampunk
Steampunk relies on several factors to determine salary including but not limited to geographic location contractual requirements education knowledge skills competencies and experience. The projected compensation range for this position is $110000 to $155000. The estimate displayed represents a typical annual salary range for this position. Annual salary is just one aspect of Steampunks total compensation package for employees. Learn more about additional Steampunk benefits here.
Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland Federal Civilian Health and DoD sectors. Through our HumanCentered delivery methodology we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges. As an employee owned company we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth. If you want to learn more about our story visit .
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability status protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by participates in the EVerify program.
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