What are the responsibilities and job description for the Security Engineer position at AVATAR IT Solutions Inc.?
Job Details
Job Details
Location: Sacramento, CA
Type: Hybrid
Experience Level: Senior (10 Years)
1 Seven (10) or more years of experience aligning IT systems with organizational business processes. At least five (10) years of that experience must be in a lead capacity.
Role: Security Engineer
Location: Sacramento, CA
Type: Hybrid
Experience Level: Senior (10 Years)
Job Summary
My client is actively looking for a candidate with strong AWS operations and security experience, monitoring/observability skills, incident management, compliance frameworks, SIEM/Elastic, automation with Python/Bash, Kubernetes security, and an AWS SysOps certification.
Mandatory Qualifications
Candidates must meet all of the following:
1 Seven (10) years of experience with developing and implementing technical solutions to help mitigate security vulnerabilities.
2 Seven (10) years of IT experience with 3 years in AWS operations
3 Three (10) years of experience with AWS security services (GuardDuty, Security Hub, WAF, Inspector)
4 Three (10) years of expert level experience monitoring and observability experience (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana)
5 Five (10) years of experience with incident management and ITIL processes
6 Five (10) years of experience with aligning business with compliance frameworks (HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2, NIST)
7 Five (10) years of experience with log aggregation and SIEM solutions (Elastic)
8 Five (10) years of experience in automation and scripting (Python, Bash)
9 Three (10) years of experience with container security and Kubernetes security best practices
10 AWS Certified SysOps Administrator certification: Associate or Professional (required)*
Desirable Qualifications
1 Seven (10) or more years of experience aligning IT systems with organizational business processes. At least five (10) years of that experience must be in a lead capacity.
2 Five (10) years of experience supporting multi-account AWS Organizations environments, including governance guardrails, SCPs, and operational best practices.
3 Experience leading high-severity security incidents and developing incident response runbooks or post-incident analysis reports.
4 Seven (10) or more years of experience developing SIEM correlation rules, dashboards, and threat-detection content to improve alert quality and reduce false positives.
5 Possession of additional security-focused certifications such as AWS Security Specialty, CKS, CISSP, or GIAC certifications.*
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Salary : $75 - $90