Cloud Security Engineer

Cloud Security Engineer

Location: Richmond, Virginia ; Charlotte, NC ; Kennesaw, GA

Employment Type: Contract

Role Overview

A Cloud Security Engineer is sought to provide analysis of cloud cybersecurity architecture, ensuring compliance with federal regulations and commercial best practices. This role involves safeguarding cloud-based systems and infrastructure against cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and unauthorized access. The engineer will be an architect of secure cloud environments, ensuring data is protected through robust security measures and adherence to industry standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide security expertise on systems, networks, encryption, authentication, and governance.
• Collaborate with IT and development teams to ensure cloud solutions are securely integrated with existing software and infrastructure.
• Engage with senior technical leaders in the design and implementation of cloud-based solutions.
• Drive security standards and tool strategies for public and private cloud solutions.
• Conduct technology assessments to establish and validate an enterprise security baseline.
• Set technical standards for cloud infrastructure, containers, security baselines, policies, and procedures.
• Analyze security configurations and provide vulnerability reports.
• Serve as the primary interface to governance, compliance, and risk management teams.
• Facilitate security automation by working with cloud service provider APIs, SDKs, and custom source code.
• Write, maintain, and expand automation scripts and monitoring tools.

Required Qualifications

Education: A degree in Computer Science, IT, Systems Engineering, or a related field is required. A Bachelor's Degree or equivalent is necessary.

Experience: A minimum of 5 years of experience with the development, deployment, and automation of security solutions in large enterprise environments, connecting to cloud solutions such as AWS. At least 3 years of relevant experience and proven work experience as a Cloud Security Engineer or similar role are required.

Technical Skills:

• Database programming and administration.
• Understanding of core concepts for Public/Private/Hybrid clouds (networking, security groups, IAM).
• Knowledge of cloud computing technologies and workload transition challenges.
• Experience with cloud security solutions and tools.
• Understanding of firewalls, VPNs, IDS/IPS, and security event analysis.
• Familiarity with web-related technologies (Web applications, Web Services, Service Oriented Architectures) and network/web-related protocols.
• Knowledge of risk assessment tools, technologies, and methods.

Preferred Qualifications

• A professional security management certification, such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), or Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).

Compensation & Benefits

The pay rate for this position is between $84.00 and $89.74 per hour. Benefits are available to eligible employees.

This employer is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

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