Security Automation Engineer

TITLE: Security Automation Engineer

Start: Immediate

Location: REMOTE

Type: Contract ( W2/ 1099/ C2C )

Duration: 6+ Months (High Possibility of Extension)

*** Secret-level Security Clearances are required ***

Job Description:

Security Automation Engineers provide technical leadership and guidance on security automation and secure system engineering topics to both internal and external teams and are responsible for architecting,

configuring, and maintaining automation tooling and pipelines for the Enterprise Security team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement security solutions that align with business goals and risk tolerances
• Architect, develop, and maintain distributed, scalable logging pipelines
• Automating builds and configurations of security tooling infrastructure
• Maintenance and development of security team Infrastructure-as-Code pipelines

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS degree in Computer Science, MIS, Computer Engineering, or 10+ years' equivalent technology experience
• 5+ years' experience building scalable security utilities and tools
• 3+ years' experience in host, network, and application security
• 5+ years' experience with web protocols and Linux/Unix tools and architecture
• 5+ years' hands-on experience building and administering AWS workloads

Preferred Qualifications

• Effective communication and collaboration skills
• Continuous learning mindset to stay current with the tools and the rapidly evolving cyber threat landscape
• Motivated with a positive attitude and a strong bias towards taking corrective action and providing resolutions
• Experience working with containerization technology and container orchestration technologies
• Experience designing, implementing, or administering Kubernetes clusters
• Experience with CI/CD technologies
• Expertise in log management and parsing strategies

Candidates with the following relevant certifications and experience will be given preferential consideration:

• CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional)
• CISM (Certified Information Security Manager) o CompTIA Security+
• Certificate programs in relevant areas e.g.: Kubernetes, Ansible, etc.
• Prior DOD/FedRAMP experience

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