Staff Cloud Security Engineer

Vantor • Westminster, CO

1d • 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-wide 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. To be eligible, candidates must be U.S. Citizens and possess an active U.S. Government security clearance. Some roles may be subject to U.S. export control laws.

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