Cloud Security Engineer - Excellent Salary PTO Health Benefits

Our client, a Cyber Security Consulting firm are currently looking to expand their practice by hiring a talented Cloud Security Engineer to join their established team. The Cloud Security Engineer will be a hands-on engineering position that requires a high degree of technical expertise to directly interact with other engineering and application development teams to drive alignment on security requirements, influence decision makers, build relationships, and communicate strategy and architecture to the broader internal community while protecting the clients assets.

Requirements

• Assists in the planning and deployment of the Company’s cloud information security strategies.
• Implement security controls and solutions in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) to protect against threats.
• Set up and manage cloud security monitoring tools to detect and respond to security incidents in real-time.
• Conduct regular vulnerability assessments and penetration testing to identify weaknesses in the cloud infrastructure and applications.
• Develops and maintain an incident response plan, and coordinate responses to security incidents, ensuring timely resolution.
• Ensure compliance with industry specific security standards and assist in audits and compliance assessments.
• Create and maintain documentation related to security policies, procedures, and configurations.
• Provide training and awareness programs to educate employees and cloud and devops teams on security best practices.
• Uses penetration testing tools to perform regular vulnerability assessments of internal and external devices, and Cloud resources.
• Designs, tests, and implements security protection measures intended to protect cloud-based applications and data.
• Coordinates assigned security projects during implementation phase and ensures timely completion.
• Assists in the day-to-day security team functions
• Communicate and relate complex business requirements and associated risks to technology.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to integrate security into software development.
• Researches, evaluates, designs, tests, recommends, and plans implementation of new or improved information security software or devices.
• Reviews computer logs and messages to identify and report on possible violations of security.
• Assists in development of disaster or emergency recovery procedures for information systems and computer environment.
• Provides leadership in understanding and responding to security audit failures reported by internal and external auditing.
• Performs other related duties and projects as business needs require at direction of management.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related Information Technology field.
• 5 years of experience in information security or information technology.
• Proven experience in cloud security, including best practices, risk assessment and compliance requirements.
• Experience with security tools and technologies such as web application firewall management, and evaluate vulnerability associated risk.