Role: Cloud Security Engineer
Location/s: Alpharetta GA / Berkeley Heights NJ/ Frisco TX / Columbus OH (5 Days Onsite)
W2 Contract
Job Description:
We are looking for a talented and driven Cloud Security Engineer SRE to join our dynamic team.
The ideal candidate will bring a strong foundation in systems administration cloud technologies and infrastructure as code with a focus on solution engineering and site reliability.
In this role you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to strengthen our security posture and optimize operations through automation.
- Programming and Scripting: Strong proficiency in languages like Python Go Bash or Ruby. SREs often need to write automation scripts and build tooling.
- Systems Administration: Deep understanding of operating systems (Linux/Unix) file systems processes and system configurations.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Experience with IaC tools like Terraform Ansible or Chef to manage infrastructure.
- Cloud Computing: Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS Azure or Google Cloud Platform including services like EC2 S3 Kubernetes and serverless functions.
- Containers and Orchestration: Expertise in containerization (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes OpenShift).
- Networking: Understanding of networking concepts including DNS firewalls load balancing and VPNs.
- Monitoring and Observability: Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus Grafana Datadog or New Relic. Ability to set up and maintain monitoring dashboards alerts and logs.
- Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Familiarity with CI/CD tools like Jenkins GitLab CI GitHub Actions or CircleCI. A strong understanding of HashiCorp Vault and Terraform will make you stand out.
- Incident Management: Ability to manage and respond to incidents perform root cause analysis and implement post-mortem reviews.
- Automation: Focus on automating repetitive tasks to improve efficiency and reduce human error.
- Performance Tuning: Skills in identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks in systems and applications.
- Documentation: Skill in creating clear and comprehensive documentation for systems processes and incident reports.
- Reliability and Scalability Service-Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service-Level Agreements (SLAs): Understanding of setting monitoring and maintaining SLOs and SLAs for system reliability.
- Scalability: Knowledge of best practices for designing and scaling systems to handle increased loads and demands.
- Redundancy and Resilience: Experience in designing systems with redundancy and fault tolerance to minimize downtime.
- Security and Compliance Security Best Practices: Understanding of security principles such as access control data encryption and secure coding practices.
- Compliance: Familiarity with compliance standards like GDPR HIPAA or PCI-DSS depending on the industry.
Minimum Job Qualifications:
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Bachelors degree in business or equivalent work experience
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10 years of previous program leadership and/or relevant consulting experience
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Knowledge of and demonstrated experience in program management framework knowledge groups & life cycle