Application Engineer-TS/SCI with Poly

CACI International•Linthicum Heights, MD

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. 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.

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.