Cloud Security Engineer

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In a world of technology, people make the difference. We believe if we invest in great people, then great things will happen. At Ana Vation, we provide unmatched value to our customers and employees through innovative solutions and an engaging culture.

Ana Vation is seeking a Cloud Security Engineer to support one of ourcybersecurity programs in our San Antonio office. In this position, the right candidate will lead zero trust engineering,interoperability, and modern security capability development across the Government enterprise. The Cloud Security Engineer will manage security systems and tools for cloud technologies, investigate and enhance existing cloud structures, and drives issue identification/resolution, integration, gap assessment, and continuous improvement, while providing flexible reach-back across the Government’s Cyber Assessment Roadmap.

This position sets the engineering direction for the Government’s zero trust and cloud security modernization, translating roadmap objectives into deployed, measurable capability.

• Lead zero trust engineering and interoperability initiatives, future-proofing implementations as tools and requirements evolve.
• Design, implement, and maintain AWS cloud architecture using Terraform (including custom modules) and Ansible.
• Administer relevant cloud infrastructure-level consoles (e.g., AWS) and secure cloud services and accounts; apply advanced networking, VPC, peering, and subnet design.
• Support the SIEM, SOAR, Incident Management System (IMS), and Incident Response Team (IRT) roadmap,engineering, and integration.
• Architect logging, monitoring, and telemetry, coordinating delivery with the Cyber Security Service Provider (CSSP).
• Advance security automation and automated evidence collection to increase inheritance and continuous monitoring maturity.
• Provide flexible SME support and reach-back across Dev Sec Ops  automation, supply chain security, enterprise vulnerability management, and AI.
• Provide updates to the Cyber Assessment Roadmap; create/maintain documentation and brief technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaborate with ISSMs, ISSEs, Value Stream engineers, COT, CPT, and Government stakeholders using tools like git.
• Support Zero Trust enforcement, cloud security controls, and Infrastructure as Code security across mission environments.
• Maintain and validate A&A control evidence in eMASS (control implementation, SIAs, SRCs, POA&Ms) supporting continuous monitoring and cATO readiness.
• Architect and integrate an enterprise SIEM ingesting logs from AWS (VPC, EKS, Cloud Trail), Okta, Istio, Git Lab, and host logs (systemd, audit), with dashboards for runtime monitoring, defense, and forensics.
• Enforce Zero Trust through ICAM integration and micro-segmentation validation and manage enterprise security tooling.

• Clearance: U.S. Citizen, current TS/SCI; current CI Polygraph
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Cloud Computing, IT, or related technical field.
• Certification: DoD 8140/8570 IAT Level II and an AWS certification.
• Location: Full-time on-site in San Antonio, TX.
• Experience and knowledge:
  • Subject Matter Expert: provides technical and management leadership on major tasks; domain and expert technical knowledge; decisions may have critical project impact; may lead others.
  • Highly experienced with AWS; advanced networking, VPC, peering, and subnet experience.
  • Git Lab CI experience;
    Terraform experience including writing custom modules and collaboration at scale;
    Ansibleexperience.
  • Proficient in Linux; SRE experience for a mid-to-large enterprise system.
  • Designing, implementing, and…