What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cloud Engineer position at Strategic Staffing Solutions?
S3 has a new multi-year contract available with a leading company in downtown Detroit!
2 year contract
Hybrid-on site in Detroit 3 days/week (must be local to MI)
W2 only (NO CORP TO CORP)
Competitive rate with benefits available
Must be VERY strong/ expert level in:
- Azure
- Terraform
- Cloud Security
Interview will be very technical and requires a seasoned Engineer/ Architect in Azure and Terraform.
The Cloud Security Engineer analyzes infrastructure and software designs and implementations from a security perspective and identifies and resolves potential threats and issues. Security Engineer secures technology assets across all layers of a technology stack (i.e., application, infrastructure, cloud and data tiers). They will perform the appropriate security analysis, identify and implement mitigations for risks identified at each phase of the software development life cycle. They are skilled in programming and have experience in working with a variety of security tools and software.
Responsibilities
• Works with technical leads and teams to ensure security is built into application development, network infrastructure and cloud systems
• Implements industry leading best practices around cyber risk and cloud security.
• Performs assessments of cloud platforms/environments using industry standard frameworks such as ISO, CSA-CSM and NIST
• Designs and develops security policies, standards and procedures using Policy-as-Code with tools like Terraform, OPA, GitHub and Packer
• Constantly looks for better ways of solving security problems and designing the solution, not afraid of challenging the status quo
• Coach and mentor other team members to maximize the cloud team’s potential
• Engage and influence technical experts as well as senior leadership
Must-have technical requirements:
• Should have at least 5 years’ experience as a lead Cloud Security Engineer/ Architect designing and securing technology assets across application, infrastructure and data tiers.
• Must have at least 5 years’ recent experience working in Azure.
• Have at least 3 years recent hands-on experience with Terraform, Github, OPA and Packer
• Should be familiar and knowledgeable about the inner workings of the software development like configuration management, release management, source code repositories and operational considerations like monitoring and other instrumentations.
• Adequate knowledge of web related technologies (Web applications, Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures) and network/web related protocols
• Experience designing the secure deployment and monitoring of applications and infrastructure into Azure
Preferred Qualifications:
• Microsoft Azure Security Engineer Associate certification
• Industry recognized security certification