Title: Cloud Security Engineer
Location: Houston, TX (50% Onsite/50% remote)
Length: 6 month contract to potential hire or conversion
The successful candidate will have a background in cyber
security, experience in managing a security practice, and have a heavy
background in IAM, DR, business continuity, vulnerability management, security
controls, and more all within a cloud organization from a design, architecture
and strategic perspective. Ideal candidates will have experience working in
cloud transformation/ cloud migration initiatives, knowing the necessary
standards and controls that are apart for the security ecosystem, and helping
with the strategy, architecture and associated controls as they move to the
cloud. We are looking for a passionate, high level thinker that has a
background in creating security programs for the cloud.Responsibilities:Hands-on
experience with architecting, designing, and implementing cybersecurity
solutions in the cloud. Must have a deep understanding of cyber security in
Cloud architecture and associated tools. The candidate will work with a team
responsible for a mission-critical business function and will partner with
Infrastructure, DevOps, and Core practices like Security, Identity, CloudOps,
Cloud platform, and tools teams to identify and implement Cyber security
principles to optimize, secure, enhance performance, and improve overall system
security.Qualifications:We need a Senior Cloud Security Architect. This
person will act as the SecOps expert for the Cyber Security organization that
is migrating to the AWS Platform, driving numerous initiatives in the security
space.· Expertise in Cloud
Architecture (preference: AWS)
· Self-starter and Senior
Architect who can lead the cloud architecture program
· Information Security
Architecture Background, CIS benchmarks, NIST Framework
· Industry security standards
and frameworks (ISO, SOX, SWIFT, OWASP, NIST Cyber Security, etc.).
· Expertise in AWS public
cloud, cloud-native design, microservice architecture, containerization, and
non-functional requirements.
Desired Skillset: AWS advanced Certification, Certified Information
Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Cloud Security Professional
(CCSP)EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:Bachelor of Computer Science or
equivalentAdditional notes from my conversation:
· Focus will be
incorporating SecOps aspects of the cloud into the security strategy (ex:
whether its how we do lock management and incident response; NOT design
Kubernetes, etc. which is already taken care of).
· Take a traditional cyber
model and if using NIST CSF how am I going to take all of those controls that
apply pour then into cloud, incident response, monitoring, and Asset
Management, etc
· Engineer level – Thinker
with extensive experience in creating Security Programs (CISSP, Experience
Managing a Security practice)
· Come from a background
with Cloud in a Fortune 500 Company where they are accustomed to the controls
needed for cloud, OR they have been a part of a Cloud Migration/ Transformation
from a Security perspective.
· Experience with
Authentication, Design, controls for high availability, DR, Business
Continuity, technical controls for OWASP, SQL injection, vulnerability
management at the architect level –somebody who can take all the controls that
are part of the security ecosystem for an application in the cloud and work
with the app owners for the above areas, help with the standards for each and
then plug in those controls as we move to the cloud.
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