Cloud Security Engineer Mid

Description

The team secures the agency's cloud, hybrid-cloud, and on-premise environments, keeping coverage and performance strong while meeting federal security standards and industry practice.

The role designs, deploys, and maintains secure baselines and configurations across CSD's cloud and on-premise systems, and keeps SOPs, architecture diagrams, and system-controls documents current.

You will build and run continuous monitoring and recommend cost savings to government leaders.

The company works only for the US federal government, serving defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health clients with a team of more than 13,000 people.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, deploy, and sustain secure, resilient, cost-effective cloud, hybrid-cloud, and on-premise systems, and review and approve designs for secure implementation.
• Develop, deploy, and maintain secure baselines for all CSD cloud and on-premise systems under federal mandates and organizational policy.
• Write and maintain SOPs, policies, diagrams, code documentation, security baselines, and system-controls documentation.
• Collect and aggregate logs for monitoring, analysis, and compliance, and keep tuning logging to cut noise and improve performance.
• Build and run continuous monitoring of availability, performance, security, reporting, and response.
• Track cloud spending and advise leadership on cost savings, and run and secure the hybrid-cloud monitoring tools.
• Research new security solutions to avoid obsolescence, and report cybersecurity incidents as federal regulation requires.
• Support audits of applications, systems, and services, and act as subject expert on cloud security, training others and passing on knowledge.
• Handle access requests, change-impact analysis, root-cause analysis, and the hybrid-cloud ticketing and service-desk system.

Requirements

• US citizen holding an active Top Secret clearance.
• Five years of experience in system administration, database administration, network engineering, software engineering, or software development with a cybersecurity focus; or a bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information technology, cybersecurity, or a related field plus five years of such experience.
• Preferred certifications: AWS Certified Security Specialty, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional (for SecDevOps work), and AWS Certified Advanced Networking Specialty (for network security work).

Conditions

Base pay range of $94,000 - $187,600 USD applies to roles in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia.

Pay varies by office location, role, skill set, and experience.

Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis with no fixed deadline.

Equal opportunity applies to all candidates, and the company is committed to an inclusive workplace.

Benefits

• A wide variety of benefits is offered.