Senior Aws Cloud Secops Engineer

Senior AWS Cloud SecOps Engineer

MentorWorks Education Capital, a workforce development company, is looking for a Senior AWS Cloud SecOps Engineer to join one of our employer partners. Candidates will be screened by the MentorWorks team. If selected, the candidate will move on in the process to our employment partner.

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

Number of Openings1Min Experience6Max Experience7Min Hourly Salary$ 133,700.00Max Hourly Salary$ 143,000.00CityMountain View

**Must have permanent US work authorization. Sponsorship is not available for this position.**