PC
Security Assessment Specialist
Pyramid Consulting, Inc
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Remote
- 11 hours ago
- FedRAMP
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- OpenStack
- Terraform
- Ansible
- CI/CD
- IaC
- System Design
- ISO 27001
- Regulatory Compliance
- Python
- Bash
- DevSecOps
- CISSP
- CISA
- Kubernetes
- Health insurance
- Pension
11 hours ago
Job ID:26-31302
Pay Range: $50 - $60/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to assess, document, and communicate security risks and mitigation strategies.
- Perform comprehensive security assessments in alignment with FedRAMP, BSI IT-Grundschutz, and other international regulatory frameworks.
- Provide clear, actionable recommendations to improve security posture based on assessment findings, industry best practices, and compliance requirements.
- Support the development and continuous refinement of security assessment methodologies and documentation.
- Analyze and validate security controls across multiple cloud providers like AWS, Azure, GCP, and OpenStack hosted clouds.
- Apply knowledge of Terraform, Ansible, and a broad spectrum of programming and deployment technologies (e.g., CI/CD pipelines, scripting languages, container orchestration, infrastructure-as-code) to support secure system design and auditing.
- Communicate findings and risk summaries to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, helping drive a security-first culture across the organization.
- 3+ years of experience in information security, risk assessments, or related fields.
- Familiarity with FedRAMP, BSI IT-Grundschutz, ISO 27001, or similar regulatory/compliance frameworks.
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure automation tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) and scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash).
- Understanding of modern deployment methodologies, cloud architecture, and DevSecOps practices.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical issues to a broad audience.
- Security certifications such as CISSP, CISA, or similar are a plus.
- Experience participating in third-party audits or assessments.
- Knowledge of secure coding practices and application security testing.
- Familiarity with container security, Kubernetes, and cloud-native technologies.
Pyramid Consulting, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
By applying to our jobs you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages, or emails from Pyramid Consulting, Inc. and its affiliates, and contracted partners. Frequency varies for text messages. Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You can reply STOP to cancel and HELP for help. You can access our privacy policy here.
Security Assessment Specialist · Pyramid Consulting, Inc