Cloud Cybersecurity Engineer

Amatriot Group • Sterling, VA

7d • Onsite

About The Position

The Amatriot Group is seeking a Cloud Cybersecurity Engineer to join an Intel project based in Sterling, VA. Cloud security engineers are an integral part of the development team and are expected to be flexible and adaptive to supporting the needs of the program. Responsibilities include serving as an information security specialist, reviewing all software, hardware, and infrastructure changes on the contracts, following the risk management framework process to support system accreditation, continuous monitoring, security mitigation; maintain security documentation, and other tasks as necessary. Additionally, the candidate will be integral to the development of new cyber monitoring, cyber hardening, and cyber response plans for a large program with multiple applications. As an engineer on the program, the candidate will be responsible for researching, designing, testing, and implementing cybersecurity features that meet new and demanding environments. The right candidate will understand software development, system administration, networking, and security and be able to take a holistic systems-level approach to influence how we build our applications to meet the higher-level security requirements associated with a system that bridges security domains, as well as someone who can help the software engineers understand zero trust architecture for a multi-releasability domain.

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in a relevant technical field (Information Systems, Systems Engineering, IT, Computer Science, etc.). Additional Years of experience will be considered in lieu of degree.
• 5+ years of combined experience in: Linux System Administration, Cybersecurity engineering or information assurance, Cloud-based environments, preferably AWS.
• 7+ years of relevant experience if lacking relevant degree.
• Understanding of engineering in software development within operational environments.
• Experience with vulnerability assessment tools, audit log assessment, and system hardening practices.
• Active TS/SCI CI Poly - Required
• IAT Level II Compliant certification required prior to starting.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience supporting Intel Community Application Development contracts.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a cybersecurity subject matter expert across system-level architecture and operational environments.
• Perform hands-on Linux administration tasks including: Navigating the command line and executing audit and log analysis. Running vulnerability scans and supporting OS hardening. Supporting system patching and configuration management efforts.
• Generate certification and accreditation (C&A) documentation and artifacts (i.e. System Security Plans, Network Interface Planning Documents, etc.) for import / upload to the SNOW tool.
• Conduct network troubleshooting to identify, diagnose, and mitigate potential cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
• Provide cloud-focused security support, including: Managing AWS security group rule changes, IAM roles and policies, and VPC/network requests. Ensuring proper logging, monitoring, and access controls across AWS environments.
• Collaborate with development teams to create, maintain, and monitor data connections, NPE security certificates, firewall connection requests.
• Continually implement and improve DevSecOps processes maintained in a Linux/Cloud-based development environment.
• Coordinate with appropriate Security Control Assessors (SCAs) early in the engineering design phase for ongoing coordination, understanding in development and application of security controls, and security tradeoffs and other decisions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level