Role: Cloud Security Engineer
Duration: 6months+ Contract
Location: Detroit, MI
Rate: Open (Keep it competitive)
Job Summary
The Cloud Security Engineer analyzes infrastructure and software designs and implementations from a security perspective and identifies and resolves potential threats and issues. Security Engineer secures technology assets across all layers of a technology stack (i.e., application, infrastructure, cloud and data tiers). They will perform the appropriate security analysis, identify and implement mitigations for risks identified at each phase of the software development life cycle. They are skilled in programming and have experience in working with a variety of security tools and software.
Responsibilities
Works with technical leads and teams to ensure security is built into application development infrastructure and cloud systems
Implements industry-leading best practices around cyber risk and cloud security.
Performs assessments of cloud platforms/environments using industry standard frameworks such as ISO, CSA-CSM and NIST
Designs and develops security policies, standards and procedures using Policy-as-Code with tools like Terraform, OPA, GitHub and Packer
Constantly looks for better ways of solving security problems and designing the solution, not afraid of challenging the status quo
Coach and mentor other team members to maximize the cloud team’s potential
Engage and influence technical experts as well as senior leadership
Must-have technical requirements:
Should have at least 5 years’ experience as a lead Cloud Security architect designing and securing technology assets across application, infrastructure and data tiers.
Must have at least 3 years’ experience working in Azure.
Have working knowledge of agile development methodologies (scrum, sprints, KanBan etc.) and tools (Azure DevOps etc.)
Should be familiar and knowledgeable about the inner workings of the software development like configuration management, release management, source code repositories and operational considerations like monitoring and other instrumentations.
Have at least 2 years hands-on experience with Terraform, Github, OPA and Packer
Adequate knowledge of web related technologies (Web applications, Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures) and network/web related protocols
Experience designing the secure deployment and monitoring of applications and infrastructure into Azure
Required non-technical soft skills:
Strong communication skills and ability to manage complex technical decisions
Be a team player and coach, share knowledge and work towards building a trusted, passionate team
