Location: Charlotte, NC
Duration: 12 Month Contract
Pay: $70-80/hr W2 ONLY, NO C2C
**Must be eligible to convert to fulltime**
This role consults / designs, implements, and maintains security measures for cloud-hosted environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) to protect data, applications, and infrastructure.
Key responsibilities include securing multi-cloud architectures, managing IAM, conducting vulnerability assessments, ensuring regulatory compliance, and responding to security incidents.
Core Responsibilities:
- Security Architecture & Design: Designing and implementing secure, scalable, and resilient cloud infrastructure, including firewalls, encryption, and network security.
- Compliance & Governance: Ensuring cloud environments comply with industry standards (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, SOC2) and internal security policies.
- Threat Detection & Response: Monitoring cloud environments for unauthorized access, vulnerabilities, or anomalies, and leading incident response efforts.
- Identity & Access Management (IAM): Defining, managing, and auditing user access rights and policies to ensure least-privilege access.
- Risk Mitigation: Performing security assessments, penetration testing, and audits of existing cloud configurations.
- Collaboration: Fosters collaboration with IT and cybersecurity security teams to build transparency throughout the cloud lifecycle.