Cloud Security Engineer

Job Description We are working with an educational publishing company. They offer a comprehensive research based curriculum providing assessment and learning solutions with print and online, instructional materials, screens, assessments, and data management tools. They are looking to bring on a experienced Cloud Security Engineer to join their security team.

The focus will be on their AWS infrastructure and security processes and procedures (vulnerability scanning, intrusion prevention, disaster recovery). The successful candidate will maximize the investment in cloud security, select technologies, and be an advocate for security with their engineering teams.

The impact you will have:

• Work closely with product and platform teams to engineer and implement cloud security controls with a focus on DevSecOps
• Support the regulatory compliance initiatives, processes, and documentation for ISO 27001, SOC2, etc.
• Develop scripts and automation to scale and accelerate the implementation and audit of security configurations, risks, and assessments
• Set technical standards for cloud infrastructure, containers, security baselines, policies and procedures
• Respond to security events in our cloud environments

This is a full time direct hire position. Fully remote. Required Skills & Experience

• 3+ years of hands-on AWS security experience in consumer website environment and/or academic environment
• AWS, (ISC)², or other cloud security certification
• Experience with the Azure cloud
• Experience with either application security or corporate infrastructure security
• Experience with audits and GRC activities, such as SOC 2 and ISO27001

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience with AWS EC2, Lambda, IAM, VPC, Security Groups, WAF, Security Hub, etc.
• Infrastructure and system monitoring (Threat Stack, Splunk, Datadog, Guard Duty, etc.)
• Deployment and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Puppet, Ansible)
• Working proficiency with ticketing systems such as JIRA
• Scripting Languages (Python, Java, Perl)
• Containers and Kubernetes
• Security incident response
• Experience with the development, deployment and automation of security solutions in large enterprise environments to connect to cloud solutions such as AWS and Azure while maintaining secure operations

The Offer

• Salary $80-130K range DOE + benefits

You will receive the following benefits:

• Medical Insurance
• Dental Benefits
• Vision Benefits
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 401(k)
• Remote work environment

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis now and in the future.