Cloud Security
Dallas, Texas
Hybrid
Direct Hire
$100k - $120k
Job Summary
Our client, a religious financial provider, is looking for a Cloud Security Engineer. Primarily seeking experience with Palo Alto firewalls and Azure cloud. This position would by full time, hybrid (3 days on-site) and would pay $100-120k based upon experience.
This position would support the Information Technology needs of our client and their end-users by providing a secure and robust network infrastructure to support the daily operations and development of our enterprise systems, telephony and applications in their cloud and on-premise environments. This position is critical to building and maintaining a stable and secure computing environment for their various lines of business and systems designed to interact with employees and participants.
What You'll Do
What You'll Need
Our client, a religious financial provider, is looking for a Cloud Security Engineer. Primarily seeking experience with Palo Alto firewalls and Azure cloud. This position would by full time, hybrid (3 days on-site) and would pay $100-120k based upon experience.
This position would support the Information Technology needs of our client and their end-users by providing a secure and robust network infrastructure to support the daily operations and development of our enterprise systems, telephony and applications in their cloud and on-premise environments. This position is critical to building and maintaining a stable and secure computing environment for their various lines of business and systems designed to interact with employees and participants.
What You'll Do
- Lead the architecture and implementation of physical and cloud enterprise network and security projects.
- Identify physical and cloud network and security gaps and set standards for desired state configuration.
- Work closely with DevOps platform as well as IT Infrastructure and Development teams to engineer and orchestrate cloud security controls with a focus on DevSecOps.
- Develop business-driven security strategies integrated into continuous delivery workflows.
- Implement a tools driven and automated approach to deliver network and security management processes.
- Develop pro-active cyber security capabilities (threat/attack modeling and assessment, vulnerability assessment and penetration testing).
- Maintain, monitor and document all physical and cloud enterprise network devices, services and security configurations including firewalls, load balancers, routers, switches, wireless and VPN.
- Maintain and monitor secure and functional user device and systems access to all internal, external and cloud-based enterprise network resources.
- Respond to and, where appropriate, resolve escalated security incidents.
- Maintain and document current disaster recovery solutions.
- General support duties (scripting, automation, 3rd level support on client/server issues).
What You'll Need
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field preferred.
- Professional certifications in CCNP, JNCIP, SANS GIAC (GPPA, GCIA), MCSA, or MCSE are highly desirable.
- 5+ years of experience in Microsoft Windows Server and Client Operating Systems, TCP/IP, LAN/WAN, WLAN, and network/routing protocols, including BGP, OSPF, VLANs, DHCP, DNS, and firewalls.
- Proven expertise in cloud infrastructure, software-defined networking (IaaS, PaaS, SDN), and virtualization technologies, with practical experience in PowerShell, Bicep, Python, Ansible, or similar scripting/automation tools.
- Strong knowledge in cybersecurity, including intrusion detection/prevention systems, PKI/SSL certificate management, firewall configuration, DDoS protection, and compliance with SEC/HIPAA regulations.
- Experience with load balancing technologies (Azure, F5, A10), Single Sign-On (SSO) implementation, Kubernetes, Docker, and Linux command line operations.