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Senior Cloud Security Engineer

Posted on 18 February 26 by Jacobi Smith

  • CHANDLER,AZ
  • $ - $
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Job Description

Senior Cloud Security Engineer

Locations: (Any of the locations listed.)
• Charlotte, NC 
• Chandler, AZ S3929
•  Irving, Texas 75039

Duration:  7 Month Contract
Pay:  $74/hr W2 ONLY, NO C2C

Key Responsibilities:
  • Leveraging your deep expertise with automation to “semi-automate” Rego Policy as Code development, leveraged to monitor for cloud resource misconfiguration/config. drift.
  • Engineering and support for the migration of CSPM capabilities from Palo Alto Prisma Cloud Enterprise to Wiz.
  • Act as the subject matter expert (SME) for Wiz capabilities, roadmap features, and best practices specific to CSPM.
  • Enable and tune Wiz detection for:
  • Public Cloud mis-configurations
  • Public Cloud config drift
  • Ad-hoc, on demand mis-config. scanning for Developers w/ IDE integration
  • Ability to efficiently transform security requirements/parameters into Rego policies for Wiz CSPM.
  • Strong collaboration with direct teammates, vendors and partners, ensuring the success of policy development automation.
  • Lead technical/engineering requirement gathering discussions and effectively design/develop complex solutions.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve support escalation cases related to Wiz CSPM.
  • Contribute to internal code repositories to continuously improve overall code quality for the team.
  • Provide high quality documentation of the delivered solutions.
  • Train other team members on utilizing the PaC semi-automation tooling/approach you establish for our policy development practice
  • Be a motivated self-starter, quick to adapt and stay focused on delivering results in a fast-paced environment with aggressive deadlines.
  • Work effectively with a virtual Team consisting of members across various locations in the U.S. and India.
Required Skills:
  • 5+ years of Information Security Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
  • 4+ years of Intermediate to Advanced experience with Terraform/automation
  • 2+ years of practical experience and strong understanding of Azure & Google public cloud – platforms, services, configurations, workloads & hardening practices
  • 1+ year of experience with Resource Query Language (RQL) and/or Rego policy dev
  • Experience with extracting, transforming, and loading data via REST API endpoints
  • Advanced experience with Python programming/automation
  • Familiarity with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps)
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Proven ability to work independently, as well as having strong interpersonal skills to work effectively within a Team and with partners
  • Strong analytical skills, proven critical thinking capabilities and ability to solve complex problems with minimal direct oversight
  • Intermediate to advanced experience working with Microsoft Office products (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook, MS Teams, SharePoint)
  • Ability to handle multiple, high priority deliverables concurrently
  • Ability to communicate confidentially, professionally, and effectively, in both written and verbal formats, with stakeholders and partners
  • 1+ year experience working on teams practicing Agile Scrum or Kanban methodologies
Desired Skills:
  • 1+ year of deep Wiz experience, in either an engineering or support role
  • Advanced experience with Rego policy automation
  • Knowledge and understanding of DevSecOps and deployment automation to cloud environments
  • Expertise and experience with API driven automation of policy creation
  • Expertise and experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and/or Policy as Code (PaC) concepts/tools
  • • Expertise with automated testing Intermediate to advanced experience with Kubernetes, preferably AKS/GKE/OCP
  • Familiarity with various cloud security and related risk frameworks (Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), CIS, NIST, etc.)
  • Experience with change and incident management practices in large enterprises
  • Security certifications such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC), or equivalent, CISA, CISM, CISSP, CRISC, CCSK
  • Microsoft Azure and/or Google Cloud Certifications

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Our Reference

JOB-245195

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