AWS Cloud SecOps Engineer

JOB DESCRIPTION

Level: middle (min. 5+ yr of related experience required)

Contract period: 11 months

Work Location: Mountain View, CA (5 days/wk onsite is mandatory)

Qualifications

· AWS Security-Specialty certification with minimum 3 years practical experience securing AWS environments

· Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related technical field, and two years of experience in related software or systems

· 8+ years overall industry experience.

What we are looking for

• Work directly with our clients as an AWS Cloud SecOps Engineer
• Improve and remediate security in existing AWS accounts, infrastructure and resources based on company security standards and AWS security best practices
• Experience with remediating security in IAM, S3, Security Groups, NACL, IGW, NFW, VPC, Endpoints and other AWS resources
• Expertise in writing JSON IAM and S3 policies – deep understanding of AWS policy language
• Experience in AWS account security auditing
• Experience in scripting using AWS API’s (boto3 or AWS cli)
• Understanding of TCP/IP networking principles
• Develop and maintain secure and reliable cloud infrastructure (OS security patching, secure backups, monitoring, secure logging, and IAM user account creation)
• Support or modify underlying AWS infrastructure and services for security hardening
• Familiarity with cloud deployment automation, as well as CI/CD pipeline builds to support cloud based workloads
• Provide experience, knowledge and develop competency on Terraform, Ansible and Cloud native automation tools
• Stay on top of the latest AWS security trends and develop expertise in emerging cloud security technologies
• Develop and maintain technical documentation in Atlassian Confluence
• Excellent experience using Atlassian Jira ticketing and Jira project management
• Troubleshoot technical security issues

Work experience desired

· DevOps: automation experience on Amazon AWS

· Cloud: Amazon AWS, AWS Marketplace, PaaS, IaaS, SaaS

· Platforms and tools: Bash, python or other scripting languages

· DevOps/Automation: Terraform, Ansible

· Experience with networking and compute infrastructure such as servers, database, firewalls and load balancers

· Experience with current information security practices and procedures

· Cloud Solutions Architect-Associate level or above and AWS Security Specialty certifications

· Hands-on experience with Jira and Confluence

· Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills

· Excellent oral and written communication skills