Cloud Security Engineer
Encoura
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Risk & compliance tracking against government standards (e.g. CCPA, NIST, SOCII).
- Tracking and remediation management of vulnerability issues and system patches.
- Review and recommend additional or changes to existing AWS security-minded services.
- Work with managed security service provider to triage and respond to potential security events.
- Grow, as needed, the data fed to SIEM to provide visibility into potential security events.
- Develop security-minded reports and dashboards for the Exec team, and for techies.
- Develop and deploy security system alerting and monitoring strategy.
- Systems access level inventory and auditing.
- Provide as-needed security-minded operational support of our applications and platforms.
- Partner with development teams on security architecture decisions.
- Implement tagging and reporting strategy to measure security event risk/impact.
- Gain functional knowledge of all Encoura applications.
- Serve in an on-call rotation for security, or potential security-related issues.
Requirements
- Experience securely delivering in a complex AWS-based micro-services application environment.
- Strong understanding of the AWS-based security tooling and services.
- Strong understanding of AWS-based IAM roles and accounts.
- Strong understanding of AWS CloudWatch/Athena.
- Proficiency and understanding of the AWS console and CLI.
- 3+ years experience securing a similarly complex AWS-based environment.
- 5+ years of IT experience designing and implementing security solutions.
- Strong automation skills – you believe you can automate everything.
- Hands-on experience with troubleshooting, securing, and improving AWS environments.
- As related to security, familiar with the concepts of microservice architecture and how those concepts are implemented in AWS.
- Experience installing, configuring, and managing and patching cloud-based and on-prem systems.
- A solid security foundation – you’re always thinking, “what happens if this system is compromised?”
- Experience working with application development teams who work in Agile/Scrum/Kanban.
- Able to balance security requirements with budgetary requirements.
- Experience working with SaaS-based solutions that integrate with AWS is a plus.
- Experience with Linux and Windows administration.
- Information Security experience preferred.
- BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent, or a Bachelor’s in an unrelated field with at least 5 years of professional technology-based experience.
- AWS Security – Specialty certification (strongly preferred).
- Additional AWS certifications are a plus, as are other relevant certifications.
- A detail-oriented, data-driven decision-maker with a strong appreciation for simplicity in system architecture.
- A collaborative team player, comfortable mentoring others and cross-functionally communicating.
Benefits
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Hard Skills & Tools
AWSmicroservicessecurity solutionsautomationtroubleshootingcloud-based systemsLinux administrationWindows administrationsecurity event monitoringvulnerability management
Soft Skills
detail-orienteddata-driven decision-makercollaborative team playermentoringcross-functional communicationbudget balancingoperational supportsecurity architecture decision-makingreporting strategy implementationon-call support
Certifications
AWS Security – SpecialtyAWS certifications