AWS Cloud Security Engineer - Virtual Company
Memphis, TN 38120
About the Job
This is a permanent opportunity to join a highly respected national organization that is a proven leader in their field!
Engineer Summary
Responsibilities include the design, implementation, and maintenance of security measures within primarily an AWS environment.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Issue Resolution: Identify and resolve security issues across cloud infrastructure, ensuring the protection of sensitive data and systems.
- Security Tools Management: Build, deploy, and manage security tools and services to safeguard cloud environments.
- Process Design: Design and implement scalable processes for provisioning cloud access, ensuring efficient and secure user management.
- Infrastructure Maintenance: Maintain a reliable, low-touch, and user-friendly cloud infrastructure that supports security and operational requirements.
- Alert Evaluation: Evaluate and respond to alerts and events from security tools, tuning configurations to reduce false positives and improve detection accuracy.
- Event Response Documentation: Develop comprehensive event response documentation and processes, including system environment diagrams and cloud operations security tools.
- Collaboration: Work closely with leadership, architects, engineering teams, vendors, and compliance officers to execute and refine security strategies.
- Security Assessment: Consistently assess current cloud security measures and best practices, proposing improvements or solutions to enhance overall security posture.
- Architecture Review: Review cloud architecture and design from a security perspective, providing actionable and timely recommendations.
Experience & Qualifications:
- Minimum of 5 years experience working with cloud infrastructure, preferably within AWS.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines for change management and automated security testing.
- Proficiency in deploying and customizing security tools such as vulnerability scanners, static analyzers, IDS/IPS, firewalls, and endpoint security monitoring.
- Experience developing software with object-oriented languages like Python, Java, C++, or Ruby.
- Ability to write SQL queries and create dashboards and reports.
- Extremely strong communication and collaboration skills.
- NIST or ISO Certification is preferred.
Additional Details:
- Employment Type: Direct-Hire Position
- Schedule: Hybrid (3 days onsite per week)
- Start Date: Immediate
- Location: Memphis, TN
- Target Compensation: $125k to $155k based on skills and experience
- Employment Status: No form of Corp-to-Corp or Employment Sponsorship is being considered.
Interested Candidates are Encouraged to Apply for Immediate Consideration!
Vaco values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.
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Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:
- the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
- licensure and certification requirements;
- office location and other geographic considerations;
- other business and organizational needs.
With that said, as required by local law, Vaco believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.
