Cloud Information Systems Security Engineer

• Location: Chantilly VA
• Schedule: Full-Time
• Work Location: On-Site
• Shift: Day Job
• Travel: No
• Minimum Clearance Required: TS/SCI with CI Poly
• Benefits: Click here

Rapid Cycle Solutions LLC (RCS) is an innovative small business providing IT and management consulting services to the U.S. Federal Government and commercial clients. We have unique strengths in complex cross-organizational solution analysis design development implementation and change management supporting enterprise requirements. Our team of professionals has deep consulting backgrounds supporting the unique needs of our clients. Our team members have proven experience leading strategic initiatives within the civilian Government agencies.

*Note: Please ensure you meet the Security Clearance obligations before applying to optimize your consideration for this and other employment opportunities with RCS.

RCS is seeking a Cloud Information Systems Security Engineer (ISSE). As a contributor to the Intelligence Communitys first multi-cloud initiative you will be at the epicenter of emergent cloud computing technologies establishing a foundation that will evolve to include all agencies within the IC and develop implement and maintain security engineering processes and tools for cloud-based systems. The ISSE will ensure that the organizations critical systems and data remain secure and compliant with all relevant government and industry standards. This role involves working closely with system architects administrators and mission partners to identify security risks implement mitigations and enhance the overall security posture of a highly dynamic cloud environment.

This position requires the candidate to meet specific Security Clearance obligations to work onsite in Chantilly VA.

What you will do:

• Advising Government stakeholders on multi-cloud multi-agency collaborative activities that require navigating agency specific policy requirements
• Assessing and identifying potential security risks and vulnerabilities in cloud environments
• Developing and implementing security controls and measures to mitigate risks
• Research evaluate and recommend new security tools techniques and technologies
• Assist with monitoring and tracking of cyber security solution offerings
• Providing cloud strategy services that cover all security fabrics and are available to the Government to assist with the relocation of an organizations business applications data and workloads to ensure maximum effectiveness of the multi-cloud environment
• Defining and documenting best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance
• Reviewing mission system requirements and facilitating recommendations for Cloud Service Provider (CSP) Task Order Proposal Requests (TOPRs)
• Providing advisory services to the service provider and IC element for the discovery adoption and understanding of new and existing CSP service offerings operating in the C2E environment
• Advising the Government on application performance uptime and scale best practices maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful design
• Ensuring the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into cloud solutions that acknowledge technical schedule and cost constraints

Required Qualifications/Education:

• Clearance: Active TS/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph
• U.S. Citizenship required (NO EXCEPTIONS)

• Bachelors degree and fourteen (14) years or more experience; Masters and twelve (12) years or more experience; PhD or JD and nine (9) years or more experience
  • Additional years of experience may substitute for education requirements
• Certification(s):
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Cloud related (e.g. DevOps Security and/or ML)
• 4 years of experience in a cloud and/or hybrid environment
• 4 years of demonstrated experience in one or more of the following activities:
  • IaaS PaaS and SaaS services (e.g. compute storage network security administration automation application services and databases) in either native cloud or hybrid cloud environments
• Developing and deploying cloud solutions to Microsoft Azure Amazon Web Services (AWS) Google Cloud Platform (GCP) IBM Cloud or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
• Experience in building and deploying systems in the cloud using continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) frameworks and infrastructure automation
• Large-scale data architecture data modeling database design and information systems implementation
• Strong customer service skills teaming skills and the ability to collaborate within a cross-functional team as well as the CSPs (AWS Azure Google IBM and Oracle)

Nice to Have Qualifications:

• Certifications in any of the following CSPs:
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
  • OCI
  • GCP
  • IBM
• Experience migrating both custom built and enterprise apps to and from on-prem to cloud
  
  

RCS is an equal employment opportunity employer. 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 law.

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