Sr. AWS SecOps Engineer - Geopaq Logic

Job Title: Sr. AWS SecOps Engineer

Contract Period: 10/01/2024 - 9/30/2025

Work location: Mountain View, CA

Type: 5 Days/wk Onsite - Remote TBD

Required Degree: Bachelor’s Degree

Required Experience: Minimum 5 years of direct AWS SecOps experience

Travel %: None

Position Summary:

Client’s charter is to build an industry leading e-commerce platform hosting client web. We strive to provide a best in class consumer experience and a seamless customer purchase experience.

We build and maintain scalable, highly secure, low latency AWS Cloud systems which are inherently reliable and fault tolerant, developed on top of micro services and modern UI frameworks. We pride ourselves on site availability, speed and flexibility to accommodate business requirements.

Join our fast paced and highly collaborative team who builds APIs, Front end web experience, tools and applications that power, extend and showcase the client web Platform. Learn, enjoy and grow.

We’re committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications. We work hard in a fast paced environment, challenge the status quo and relentlessly strive for excellence, yet we like to have a good time in a fun filled comfortable atmosphere.

As a SecOps Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the security of our systems and infrastructure. You will work closely with our development and DevOps teams to identify and remediate vulnerabilities, implement security best practices, and automate security processes. You will conduct security assessments of our systems and infrastructure to identify vulnerabilities and risks and identify risk owners and implement mitigating controls.

The SecOps engineer will build and run high quality, secure and non-impactful deployments to power client website. We do continuous integration and deployment to dev/test environments and multiple production releases per day. This is a highly technical position that requires a broad set of cloud security skills that include deployment technologies, monitoring and scripting to networking and infrastructure.

What we are looking for

∙ Work directly with our clients as an AWS Cloud SecOps Engineer

∙ Improve and remediate security in existing AWS accounts, infrastructure and resources based on client corporate security standards and AWS security best practices

∙ Experience with remediating security in IAM, S3, Security Groups, NACL, IGW, NFW, VPC, Endpoints and other AWS resources

∙ Expertise in writing JSON IAM and S3 policies - deep understanding of AWS policy language

∙ Experience in AWS account security auditing

∙ Experience in scripting using AWS API’s (boto3 or AWS cli)

∙ Understanding of TCP/IP networking principles

∙ Develop and maintain secure and reliable cloud infrastructure (OS security patching, secure backups, monitoring, secure logging, and IAM user account creation)

∙ Support or modify underlying AWS infrastructure and services for security hardening

∙ Familiarity with cloud deployment automation, as well as CI/CD pipeline builds to support cloud based workloads

∙ Provide experience, knowledge and develop competency on Terraform, Ansible and Cloud native automation tools

∙ Stay on top of the latest AWS security trends and develop expertise in emerging cloud security technologies

∙ Develop and maintain technical documentation in Atlassian Confluence

∙ Excellent experience using Atlassian Jira ticketing and Jira project management

∙ Troubleshoot technical security issues

Qualifications

∙ AWS Security-Specialty certification with minimum 3 years practical experience securing AWS environments

∙ Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related technical field, and two years of experience in related software or systems

∙ 8+ years overall industry experience.

Work experience desired

∙ DevOps: automation experience on Amazon AWS

∙ Cloud: Amazon AWS, AWS Marketplace, PaaS, IaaS, SaaS

∙ Platforms and tools: Bash, python or other scripting languages

∙ DevOps/Automation: Terraform, Ansible

∙ Experience with networking and compute infrastructure such as servers, database, firewalls and load balancers

∙ Experience with current information security practices and procedures

∙ Cloud Solutions Architect-Associate level or above and AWS Security Specialty certifications

∙ Hands-on experience with Jira and Confluence

∙ Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills

∙ Excellent oral and written communication skills