Cloud Systems Analyst jobs in Virginia Beach, VA

Job#: 2023618

Job Description:

- Job Title: Cloud Security Integration SME
- Location: *** 100% Remote ***
- Contract Layout: Est. "6 Month Contract" to Possible Perm Hire
- Contract Pay: $65.00 - $70.00 / Hourly Rate

*** REQUIREMENTS ***

• 4 Years of Cloud Engineer/Architecture Experience
• Strong background in Information Security
• Strong Implementation experience
• Strong communication skills

Job Description

• Analyze, and implement sophisticated code frameworks and comprehensive testing plans to ensure security guardrails cannot be compromised.
• Understand Cloud infrastructure environments and the challenges associated with secure Enterprise integration, contributing to big-picture strategy that aligns with industry best practices.
• Create automated event-driven security validation.
• Define, communicate, and drive security controls matrix. Monitor compliance to Enterprise-level security standards, documenting requirements through threat modeling and other artifacts.
• Understand overall systems architecture and how to leverage Terraform and Ansible following Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts.
• Provide strategic and tactical security control recommendations, operational security blueprints and roadmaps, reference architectures for security patterns, and general security technology / application assessments.
• Participate in the Cloud Governance processes and community of practice.
• Recommend changes and updates to cloud security governance strategy based on NIST, regulatory and evolving threats drivers.
• Propose opportunities to improve security outcomes and reduce risks based on targeted or continuous assessments.
• Consider solutions in the light of legal / regulatory requirements such as PCI-DSS, HIPAA, NIST, FISMA, etc.
• Work with business units to translate business strategy into discrete capabilities and helps to identify security capability gaps in systems.

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