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We are looking for a Cloud Security Engineer to join our growing team who specializes in the secure configuration of Microsoft Azure and AWS cloud environments. The right candidate will be responsible for the risk posture, best practice guidance, and enforcement of security controls across these environments. We are looking for an ideal candidate who comes from a solid security operations or DevSecOps background and has a good foundation in identifying cloud-based threats in a global enterprise IT Software company. The role requires providing expertise and recommendations to application owners, Engineering, DevOps and SRE engineering teams, and IT network and systems engineers on how to enhance the security and protection controls for cloud-based environments.

Job Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, fine-tune, and automate threat and vulnerability management in the cloud using our CSPM solution.
• Develop and configure security scanning activity other using native tools to ensure coverage and drive security risk down for the organization.
• Work with internal Security teams, DevOps, Engineering, SRE, and IT teams to ensure compliance, security event, and incident response activities are tracked and remediated
• Responsible for the implementation of security measures within our rapidly expanding cloud infrastructures both in Azure with services in Microsoft 365 and AWS.
• Lead security evaluations of cloud-based architectures and conduct security assessments to confirm that the implementation of security controls around cloud-based applications and environments adheres to enterprise security standards.
• Provide proactive security recommendations for more secure settings across our cloud environments.
• Define and develop preventive guardrails, detective controls, automated alerts, and remediation to ensure secure implementation and that all cloud environments are compliant with SolarWind's security standards and policies.
• Develop and present risk-based reports to executives
• Automate actionable Threat Intelligence, work with other security teams to perform cloud-based threat hunts and help drive a collaborative proactive approach with all teams.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience working with Microsoft 365 architectures or AWS (cloud and hybrid cloud/on-prem solutions)
• Relevant Cloud Certs: Amazon, Microsoft, and/or a degree in Cyber Security with relevant experience.
• Excellent English, communication, and presentation skills
• Experience with applying best practices around securing IAM and network Security Controls (Firewalls, WAFS, IPS/IDS, Honeypots) by using native cloud tools such as MS Defender for Cloud, AWS Config, Control Tower, Inspector, Guard Duty etc.)
• Experience with environments hosting production SAAS products, building pipelines, and familiarity with common engineering tools
• Experience with Azure AD Identity Governance and Azure AD as an identity provider for SSO, MFA, and Azure AD Roles
• Functional knowledge of PowerShell, Azure Automation, Kusto Query Language (KQL), Terraform
• Proficiency in several security technologies including data loss prevention, encryption, cloud access security brokers, multi-factor authentication, and endpoint protection.

Job Description

• Opening with our client for a Cloud Security Engineer
• 3-month project (contract role)In this role, you will provide support to a project team on a migration to AWS
• You will also participate in the implementation of security measures in AWS environment, including compliance and response action
• Essential Functions
• Evaluating, architecting, and implementing security-focused tools and services
• Supporting the company-defined AWS cloud strategy
• Ensuring that responses are appropriate (and automated) according to policies and procedures
• Evangelizing and advocating AWS cloud security practices
• Driving engineering teams across all security practices
• Identifying, raising, and mitigating security weaknesses on AWS Cloud

Requirements

• Bachelor' Degree in Computer Science or related IT field
• AWS Certified Developer – Associate or AWS Certified Security (must have at least 1 certification
• Minimum of 2 years AWS experience required
• Proven record of effective security services implementation in AWS Cloud
• Good knowledge of hardening, network protocols, application security, and strong skills in coding in multiple common languages (shell, PowerShell, and Python)
• Knowledge of Python and serverless technology like Step Function and Lambda
• Strong experience delivering home-grown and commercial security solutions
• Solid communication skills

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