Cloud Security Engineer

Tyto Athene•Washington, DC

17h•$220,000 - $240,000•Remote

About The Position

Tyto Athene is searching an enthusiastic Cloud Security Engineer to help our largest Federal client monitor and secure their rapidly expanding cloud footprint against would-be attackers. The successful candidate will have a passion for and experience with being the foremost Cloud Security expert in a large, enterprise SOC environment and augment the team’s knowledge and skills across the major cloud providers (e.g., AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud) to develop alerting and response procedures for cloud events and perform cloud hunting, monitoring, and incident response.

Requirements

Able to work normal business hours (core) and occasional/limited on-call hours as requested by the client and/or as required by operational demands (e.g., during major incidents)
Eight (8) years of cyber security experience, with at least six (6) of those years working as a Cloud Security Engineer in an enterprise SOC environment
Demonstrated expertise in performing cyber threat hunting activities in cloud environments (e.g., SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, including O365, SIEM, EDR, and other cloud-based applications) is critically important
Demonstrated experience leading incident response activities when cloud-based tools and systems are involved
Experience across all major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google)
Bachelor’s degree required OR additional relevant experience
Ability to work as an integral part of a high-performing SOC team is required
Effective verbal and written communication skills that include the ability to describe highly technical concepts in non-technical terms
Understanding of recent cybersecurity policies and mandates such as EO 14028, M-21-31, NSM-8, and their impact on SOC activities

Nice To Haves

Advance level Cloud Security certifications are strongly preferred (e.g.., AWS Security Specialty certification)
CISSP, GCIH, and similar certifications are a plus

Responsibilities

Perform cloud hunting and identify embedded threats effectively and efficiently
Review and analyze cloud logs to bring relevance and context to the data
Lead cloud incident response activities as they occur
Develop a full set of cloud incident response playbooks
Work with stakeholders to ensure full visibility into workloads running in the cloud
Ensure all cloud logs are onboarded to the SIEM tool and the correct events are logged
Develop and implement a full set of monitoring use cases to enable DOJ security tools to immediately and automatically detect cloud threats
Continuously tune security tools for optimization, i.e., maximum blocking with minimal false positives
Devise and implement additional KPIs and metrics that help DOJ monitor the overall health of this function
Ensure and enable DOJ’s participation in threat information-sharing initiatives across the USG
Assist the engineering team with the deployment, configuration, and maintenance of cloud-based SOC tools, technologies, applications, and solutions
Perform research and lead proof of concept efforts to determine where additional technologies may be necessary