Application Engineer-TS/SCI with Poly

CACI

21h

About The Position

CACI is seeking a highly motivated Application Engineer to join our team in Linthicum Heights, Maryland. The Application Engineer will evaluate and research cloud security technologies and make recommendations for their use.

Requirements

• TS/SCI with Poly
• Customer facing skills to drive discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, best practices, project management and risk mitigation
• Experience with cloud computing and virtualization platforms. Specifically, AWS experience is strongly preferred.
• Ability to quickly learn and shift in step with the latest cloud-computing, networking, and infrastructure management technologies.
• Excellent communication, writing, problem solving, and architectural whiteboarding skills
• Strong knowledge of application system and network architectures and associated security principles including protection of data at rest, in transit, and in process.
• Knowledge of security and compliance requirements for cloud-based solutions.
• 12 years minimum experience and a High School Diploma/GED
• 10 years minimum experience and an Associate’s Degree
• 8 years minimum experience and a Bachelor’s Degree
• 6 years minimum experience and a Master’s Degree
• 4 years minimum experience and a Doctorate’s Degree
• All experience and education will be in a technical field directly related to the labor category being proposed and all diplomas, GED certificates, and degrees will be from accredited institutions.

Nice To Haves

• A commercial Cloud Certification at the Associate level, a specialty, or higher; AWS or Azure are preferred
• Familiarity with the Risk Management Framework
• Experience with security-focused AWS concepts and services including IAM (Identity Access Management), SCPs (Security Control Policies), AWS Key Management Service, AWS Config, AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, and Inspector
• Experience with agile software and cloud Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, Terraform, etc.) and associated scripting and markup languages (YAML, JSON, Python, etc.)
• Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management tools such as SaltStack, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.

Responsibilities

• Develop or recommend guidance or measures for cloud workloads that ensure compliance with Government security and regulatory requirements such as NIST SP 800-53 security controls
• Collaborate with cloud-focused teams across various organizations to design, test, and implement cloud workload security configurations and solutions.
• Facilitate the creation of procedures and cybersecurity guidance for migrations from legacy cloud environments or hardware environments into AWS
• Evaluate and research cloud services and make recommendations for security configurations of those services to ensure data is appropriately protected.

Benefits

• Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives.
• We offer competitive compensation, benefits and learning and development opportunities.
• Our broad and competitive mix of benefits options is designed to support and protect employees and their families.
• At CACI, you will receive comprehensive benefits such as; healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED