Staff Cloud Security Engineer

Maxaar • Westminster, CO

12d • Hybrid

About The Position

Vantor is seeking a Cloud Security Engineer (DevOps) to join their team. This role involves ownership of security applications/services, integrating security requirements into infrastructure design, and supporting enterprise-level common infrastructure services. The engineer will collaborate with Information Assurance and other DevOps engineers to ensure security is a primary consideration throughout the system lifecycle. This position offers growth opportunities in both DevOps and Information Security skillsets.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. citizen with an existing SECRET security clearance and the ability to obtain Top Secret/SCI access with a Counterintelligence Polygraph required after award of SCI access.
• CompTIA Security+ or other DoDD 8140 certification
• Willingness to work 90% or as needed in a secure environment with some on-call or after-hours onsite support for customer’s mission.
• 5 years of DevOps, software, or infrastructure engineering experience and a Bachelor’s degree. 4 additional years of experience may be substituted for a degree.
• Ability to quickly learn and use a wide variety of open-source technologies.
• Cloud service experience.
• Experience with Terraform and K8S or equivalent technologies.

Nice To Haves

• Holds any AWS certification, or other cloud provider’s certifications
• Prior experience with CI/CD technologies such as Jenkins
• Proficiency in Python or Java
• Experience automating, running and maintaining a variety of security tool types (some combination of i.e. monitoring, compliance, vulnerability detection, intrusion detection and prevention, change management and detection, code analysis, etc.)
• Experience with custom source application development and maintenance

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain multiple security applications/services in a cloud-based environment that operates using continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices.
• Troubleshoot and resolve network, automated pipeline, and infrastructure issues related to security services.
• Build, maintain, and monitor configuration of security tools.
• Build effective security monitoring, alerting, and metrics from log aggregators and data collectors.
• Provide a collaborative conduit between security focused and development focused teams.
• Provide configuration and vulnerability management support for production applications and custom code.

Benefits

• Robust 401(k) with company match
• Mental health resources
• Student loan repayment assistance
• Adoption reimbursement
• Pet insurance
• Incentive eligible with a target based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results achieved

What This Job Offers

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