Cloud Security Engineer

Overview

Experis IT is partnered with the world's leading provider of secure financial messaging services in their search for an AWS Cloud Security Engineer
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This role requires working onsite no less than 2 days/week in Manassas, VA.

Reporting to the Global Security department, this role contributes to the company internal digital transformation in its evolving adoption of Hybrid Hosting Strategy and enhancing its Cloud Security practices.
The ideal candidate will have experience defining and implementing security controls for an evolving cloud environment. This is NOT a Dev Ops role.

As a senior member of the team, you will undertake moderately complex projects ensuring the security and compliance of cloud infrastructure, compute, and network resources. You will also contribute to the definition of cloud security controls and policies, within established guidelines; ensuring they are effective and appropriate for our client and its customers, and that they are consistent with the company objectives, company reputation and regulatory requirements.

• Analyze cloud security non-compliances to determine their root causes.
• Define solutions to address the root causes of non-compliance. Evaluate security exceptions and risk scenarios.
• Work with the Cloud Platform Security Engineering team to design and integrate into day-by-day operation (operationalize) new cloud security features and services.
• Support workloads (application and infrastructure security) in their migration to cloud.
• Build an understanding of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations management process, related controls, and key roles and responsibilities.
• Create and maintain engineering and architectural documents.
• Translate requirements and root cause remediations into Agile epic and user stories or work items for the cloud security engineering team, and cloud platform/workload engineers and developers.
• Engage and work directly with application owners, onboard users to cloud security tools, provide user support, perform user acceptance tests, and troubleshoot cloud tool issues.
• Design automation to solve repeatable scenarios.