Role: Senior Cloud security Engineer
Duration: 6 months Contract to Hire
Location: Atlanta, GA- Hybrid
Top skills: Kubernetes, AWS, PRISMA, Container Security
Successful candidates will demonstrate strong business acumen and possess a blend of general business, technology and security competencies. Specifically, this individual will have a versatile background, critical thinking and analytical capabilities, as well as a proven ability to bridge organizational boundaries to implement security controls and risk mitigation strategies.
Primary Responsibilities / Tasks
- Own and execute on day-to-day tasks related to the company CNAPP and CWP solution.
- Triage, communicate, and remediate vulnerabilities and misconfigurations while tuning policies to ensure a high degree of alert fidelity.
- Works with cloud account, engineering, and development teams to review, manage, and track security vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and remediation efforts
- Create key performance indicators that track the progress and effectiveness of the DevSecOps program.
- Assist with triaging potential security incidents.
- Assist with cybersecurity escalations and change management.
- Create runbooks and document policies and procedures.
- Promotes security and privacy by design through effective partnership with security, cloud account, and engineering teams.
- Identify security design gaps in existing and proposed architectures and recommend changes or enhancements.
Minimum
- 5 or more years of experience in related field or BS / BA and 3 + years professional service experience or MS and 1 year related experience.
- Demonstrated cloud and container security experience (AWS, Azure, Anthos, and Kubernetes experience highly desired)
- Demonstrated experience with enterprise CNAPP and/or CWP tools (Palo Alto Prisma preferred)
- Working knowledge of cloud concepts and network architectures.
- Working knowledge of application architecture including security best practices.
- Good verbal and written communication skills needed to communicate complex problems, including root cause, to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong collaboration skills to effectively develop consensus and understanding among cross-functional teams on key security risks and vulnerabilities
- Develop and implement leading practice security processes and practices across cross-functional teams throughout Technology and the Business
- Engages others in developing innovative solutions to important strategic and operating problems
- Possesses ability to clearly summarize problems and tailor messaging for intended audiences
- Drives completion of projects or assignments
Preferred
- MS/MA in a related discipline (i.e., Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, etc.); and/or 3 years of experience in related field.
- Ability to automate or script repetitive tasks
- Big four consulting background or Fortune 500 company experience.
- Telecom/Cable industry experience.
- At least one relevant industry certification – CISSP, CISM, CISA
- Cloud Provider certifications – Azure, GCP, AWS
