Cloud Security Operations Engineer

Role: Cloud Security Operations Engineer

Duration: Contract to Hire - 6+ Months

Atlanta, GA- Hybrid- Locals only- Twice a week in the office

Rate: Market

Top Skills

CNAPP tool experience (Palo Alto Prisma preferred), cloud security experience (AWS and Azure most important), security operations experience (alert review, investigation, and rule tuning)

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Successful candidates will demonstrate strong business acumen and possess a blend of general business, technology and security competencies. Specifically, this individual will have a versatile background, critical thinking and analytical capabilities, as well as a proven ability to bridge organizational boundaries to implement security controls and risk mitigation strategies.

Primary Responsibilities / Tasks

• Own and execute on day-to-day tasks related to the company CNAPP and CWP solution.
• Triage, communicate, and remediate vulnerabilities and misconfigurations while tuning policies to ensure a high degree of alert fidelity.
• Works with cloud account, engineering, and development teams to review, manage, and track security vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and remediation efforts
• Create key performance indicators that track the progress and effectiveness of the DevSecOps program.
• Assist with triaging potential security incidents
• Assist with cybersecurity escalations and change management.
• Create runbooks and document policies and procedures.
• Promotes security and privacy by design through effective partnership with security, cloud account, and engineering teams.
• Identify security design gaps in existing and proposed architectures and recommend changes or enhancements.
  
  

Minimum

• 5 or more years of experience in related field or BS / BA and 3 + years professional service experience or MS and 1 year related experience.
• Demonstrated cloud and container security experience (AWS, Azure, Anthos, and Kubernetes experience highly desired)
• Demonstrated experience with enterprise CNAPP and/or CWP tools (Palo Alto Prisma preferred)
• Working knowledge of cloud concepts and network architectures.
• Working knowledge of application architecture including security best practices.
• Good verbal and written communication skills needed to communicate complex problems, including root cause, to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong collaboration skills to effectively develop consensus and understanding among cross-functional teams on key security risks and vulnerabilities
• Develop and implement leading practice security processes and practices across cross-functional teams throughout Technology and the Business
• Engages others in developing innovative solutions to important strategic and operating problems
• Possesses ability to clearly summarize problems and tailor messaging for intended audiences
• Drives completion of projects or assignments
  
  

Preferred

• MS/MA in a related discipline (i.e., Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, etc.); and/or 3 years of experience in related field.
• Ability to automate or script repetitive tasks
• Big four consulting background or Fortune 500 company experience.
• Telecom/Cable industry experience.
• At least one relevant industry certification – CISSP, CISM, CISA
• Cloud Provider certifications – Azure, GCP, AWS