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Cloud Security Specialist not devops F2F Direct Consultant

Job in Manassas, Prince William County, Virginia, 22110, USA
Listing for: StackNexus
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-02-16
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    IT Consultant, Cloud Computing
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 100000 - 125000 USD Yearly USD 100000.00 125000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Cloud Security Specialist -- not devops -- F2F -- Direct Consultant

located in Manassas, VA is in need of Cloud Security Specialist - please do not send Candidates with Dev Ops background.
On site interview after video Interview.

12 month plus contract, W2 or 1099 (direct candidate only)

Responsibilities
  • 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.
Requirements
  • ~5-years’ experience with AWS Cloud Security (~5-years will be good for any of it)
  • PURPLE Security (PLEASE DO NOT send someone who is Dev Ops)
  • Cloud Security Hands-on Engineering is 1/3 of the job;
    Cloud Security Operations/Communications is 2/3 of the job
  • MUST know Security Tools in AWS (Azure and google are okay, but MOST will be AWS)
  • When ‘anyone’ in the company asks for a fix, this person must raise their hand to work/communicate with the user, tackle it and get it fixed (on their own – not having to be asked)
  • Will work with everyone:
    Global Cloud Security, Risk Mgmt, Application Teams, etc.
  • They will have daily stand-ups – issues will be discussed – this person will resolve these issues
  • Requires A LOT of communication and organization skills
  • RESUMES CANNOT BE MORE THAN 3-PAGES TOO
Interviews
  • One 30-minute MS Teams w/ Manager
  • There will be one meet & greet w/ the “hiring manager” (since the re-org, he’s responsible for finding and working with this team, but he is not given the budget to ‘hire’)
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