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Senior Cloud Security Engineer
Crescens Inc.
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Hybrid
- Senior
- 23 hours ago
- Azure
- Zero Trust
- Network Security
- Vulnerability Management
- Incident Response
- Devops
- Risk Management
- SIEM
- WAF
- Azure Monitor
- Threat Intelligence
- Nessus
- Tenable
- Defender
- Splunk
- Microsoft Sentinel
- CIS Benchmarks
- NIST
- IAM
- RBAC
- CCSP
23 hours ago
Location: Mechanicsville, VA (Hybrid)
Duration: 7+ Months
Job Description
The client is seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Security Engineer (Sr CSE) to implement and support the agency's cloud and computing infrastructure.
The Senior Cloud Security Engineer will serve as a subject matter expert supporting the client's enterprise Azure migration, responsible for architecting, implementing, and securing cloud environments in alignment with SEC530 principles, Zero Trust, and enterprise compliance frameworks.
The Senior Cloud Security Engineer will be responsible for assisting in the design, implementation, securing, monitoring, and the continuous improvement of the client's cloud infrastructure and services across the enterprise. The position provides senior-level technical leadership for cloud security architecture, identity and access management, network security, security monitoring, vulnerability management, incident response, and cloud governance.
The Senior Cloud Security Engineer works closely with Cloud Engineering, Network Engineering, Security Operations, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, Application Development, DevOps, Risk Management, and IT leadership to ensure cloud environments are secure, resilient, compliant, and aligned with enterprise security standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Identify cloud security vulnerabilities, assess risk based on business impact, prioritize remediation, track remediation activities, and validate corrective actions.
- Lead complex cloud security initiatives and provide technical directions to engineers. Also assist in the design of secure cloud architecture for complex enterprise environments.
- Influence architecture and security decisions and prevent insecure configurations from reaching production and implement security gates within deployment pipelines.
- Explain complex security risks to non-technical stakeholders.
- Assess cloud security risks and security gaps and recommend appropriate remediations. Create and maintain security documentation and evidence as well as support audits and assessments.
- Review proposed cloud solutions for security risk and define appropriate security and compensation controls.
- Develop Azure policies to enforce standardization and compliance with enterprise requirements, as well as creating Azure Automation runbooks to support incident response workflows.
- Monitor security events using SIEM technologies and work with VDOT's SOC team to coordinate incident response activities.
- Identify and diagnose system problems and threats by using system logs, line monitors, SIEM, diagnostic software, and test equipment.
- Lead investigation and containment of cloud security incidents.
- Review firewall and NSG rule requests and ensure compliance with security standards.
- Provide documentation, architecture topology diagrams, IP schemes and access controls when required.
- Work independently on assigned projects.
- Enterprise Cloud Experience
- Enterprise Cloud Security Experience
- Highly experienced as a cloud security professional with strong hands-on expertise in cloud infrastructure and cloud engineering.
- Highly experienced in cybersecurity, networking, identity, security operations, and deep cloud engineering competency.
- In-depth experience moving between strategic architecture and hands-on engineering and identifying security risks.
- In-depth experience designing practical solutions, implementing controls, and working with infrastructure teams.
- In-depth experience working with application teams to continuously improve the organization's cloud security posture.
- Experience setting up Network Security Groups (NSGs), resource manager and management groups, monitor and log analytics.
- Experience setting up Azure Firewall, Azure WAF, Azure Monitor, Application Gateways, virtual networks and network segmentation.
- Experience in incident response, security investigations, log analysis, threat intelligence, security monitoring, IOC analysis.
- Experience coordinating during cyber incidents.
- Experience in vulnerability management, remediation tracking, vulnerability scanning tools (e.g. Nessus, Tenable, Defender).
- Experience securing enterprise cloud environments and implementing security controls in production environments.
- Experience with SIEM products (e.g. Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, CNAPP).
- Experience with log management, security analytics, SOC integration, threat detection, and threat hunting.
- Hands-on expertise validating indexer parsers, leveraging Splunk Query Language for monitoring and data analysis.
- Experience collaborating with the security governance team and application leads to implement enterprise log management standards.
- Experience with SEC530, CIS Benchmarks, NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, Zero Trust principles.
- Experience in cloud vulnerability management, remediation tracking, and risk assessment and prioritization.
- Experience in cloud risk assessment and prioritization, attack surface management, and Cloud Security Posture Management (VSPM).
- Experience in Cloud Workload Protection (CWPP) and Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP).
- Experience developing Azure Policy to enforce standardization and compliance with enterprise requirements.
- Experience creating Azure Automation runbooks to support incident response workflows.
- Experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM), Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), and Privileged Access Management (PAM).
- Experience with least-privilege access and multi-factor authentication.
- Experience working in highly regulated environments with large government agencies or similar regulatory environments.
- Ability to communicate technical issues to technical, non-technical, and executive audiences.
- Ability to mentor junior engineers.
- Azure Security Engineer Associate
- Security+
- Certified Cloud Security Professional
- CCSP
- Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure
Senior Cloud Security Engineer · Crescens Inc.