Policy Automation Engineer at TEKsystems

Policy Automation Engineer

8 month contract with potential to extend up to 24 months.

Remote until new office finishes construction in 2025. Will eventually go to hybrid, 3 days on site in Irving, Texas

Position Overview:

The banking client is seeking an experienced Policy Automation Engineer (Information security Engineer 4 - Contingent) to join our Cloud Workload Lifecycle Security Team. Be a part of one of the core teams working on this client's digital transformation; join our dynamic, diverse, fast-paced team environment where we secure and reduce risk for our Enterprise cloud migration. This position will be leading engineering tasks specific to the automation of policy development for the WF implementation of Prisma Cloud Enterprise. The work will consist of leveraging Terraform and Python to automate RQL (Resource Query Language) generation, with input/collaboration from our policy development team and our vendor, Palo Alto Networks. Position responsibilities include:

• Leveraging your deep expertise with automation to “semi-automate” Prisma Cloud policy development, leveraged to monitor for cloud resource misconfiguration/config. drift.

• Ability to efficiently transform security requirements/parameters into Prisma Cloud policies.

• Strong collaboration with direct teammates, vendors and partners, ensuring the success of this policy development automation initiative.

• Lead technical/engineering requirement gathering discussions and effectively design/develop complex solutions.

• Contribute to internal code repositories to continuously improve overall code quality for the team.

• Provide high quality documentation of the delivered solutions.

• Train other team members on utilizing the RQL semi-automation tooling/approach you establish for our Prisma Cloud policy development practice

• Be a motivated self-starter, quick to adapt and stay focused on delivering results in a fast-paced environment with aggressive deadlines.

• Work effectively with a virtual Team consisting of members across various locations in the U.S. and India.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• 5+ years of Information/Cybersecurity experience

• Familiarity with and basic understanding of Resource Query Language (RQL)

• Advanced experience with Python programming/automation

• Intermediate to Advanced experience with Terraform/automation

• Strong understanding of security principals and industry best practices

• Practical experience with public cloud platforms: Azure and/or Google

• Experience with CI/CD tools, e.g. Jenkins and Github

• Experience with extracting, transforming, and loading data via REST API endpoints

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Proven ability to work independently, as well as having strong interpersonal skills to work effectively within a Team and with partners

DESIRED SKILLS:

• 1+ year of deep Prisma Cloud Enterprise experience, in either an engineering or support role

• Intermediate to Advanced experience with RQL (Resource Query Language) development and

automation

• Experience with creation of Build policy subtype in Prisma Cloud Enterprise using YAML

• Knowledge and understanding of DevSecOps and deployment automation to cloud environments

• Familiarity with of various cloud security and related risk frameworks (COBIT, Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), FedRAMP, etc.)

• Experience enabling auto-remediation via Prisma Cloud

• Expertise and experience with API driven automation of policy creation

• Expertise and experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and/or Policy as Code (PaC) concepts/tools

• Intermediate to advanced experience with Kubernetes, preferably docker/AKS/GKE/TKGI/TAS

• Expertise with automated testing

• Experience with change and incident management practices in medium to large enterprise environments

• Security certifications such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC), or equivalent

• Microsoft Azure and/or Google Cloud Certifications

About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.