Cloud Security Engineer

Viva Health•Birmingham, AL

11h

About The Position

The Cloud Security Engineer will provide cyber security expertise in the analysis, assessment, development, and evaluation of security in cloud-based environments. This position is responsible for keeping the cloud infrastructure current, making recommendations, and participating in the implementation and continuous improvement of technologies and services in cloud-based environments. This role will provide support on Incident Response related to security incidents. This individual will provide support and guidance to others on security strategies, processes, and technology. This involves collaborating with analysts, engineers, and dev ops to achieve continuous improvement in cyber defense and resiliency. This position will also provide management with risk assessments and security briefings to advise them of critical issues that may affect customers, members, or corporate security objectives.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems or related field – work experience may substitute for education requirement
5 years’ experience in a related field of work with at least 3 years in a security-focused role
CCSP Azure or AWS or ability to obtain within the first year of employment
Experience in cloud services, development, visualization, and maintenance
Knowledge of Microsoft Azure foundation services related to computer, network, storage, content delivery, administration. and security, deployment and management, automation technologies
Experience architecting, designing, and programming applications and ample experience in high level programming languages such as Java, Python, C++, Visual Basic, etc.
Experience in performing risk assessments and vulnerability management
Knowledge of firewall and intrusion detection/prevention protocols
Familiarity using Azure Cloud Services
Demonstrated analytical and troubleshooting skills necessary to constantly monitor systems to identify threats and vulnerabilities
Demonstrated verbal and written skills necessary in executing the job duties which will require working with various teams and business roles, developing reports, and technical documentation
Demonstrated team player as this role will be expected to work with multi-disciplinary teams
Demonstrated ability working within deadlines and working well under pressure

Nice To Haves

Healthcare experience
Microsoft Azure experience
CISSP, CISM
Knowledge of disaster recovery, computer forensic tools, technologies, and methods
DevOps know-how building and deploying infrastructure with cloud deployment, build, and test automation technologies like Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Docker, Jenkins, GitHub, etc.
Familiarity in compliance and regulatory guidelines such as NIST, HIPAA, FISMA, etc.

Responsibilities

Aid in the development of security plans and policies.
Recommend and implement protections.
Partake in efforts that shape the organization’s security policies and standards for use in cloud environments.
Monitor for and investigate security breaches.
Perform enterprise risk assessments.
Interpret security and technical requirements into business requirements and communicate security risks to stakeholders.
Collaborate with application developers and other teams to deliver creative solutions to difficult technology challenges and business requirements, utilizing an adept understanding and experience with cloud infrastructure and cloud technologies.
Keeps current with trends in the Cloud and Infrastructure space, while always searching for ways to improve systems as technology advances.
Responsible for thorough documentation of implementations.