Cloud Security Engineer

Cloud Security Engineer
100% Remote
US Citizenship is Required per government contract
Ability to pass enhanced background screen (criminal, financial, drug) for Public Trust clearance

ALTA IT Services is seeking a Cloud Security Engineer in support of our clients Bank Data Integration Service program. Our client serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence, space, cyber, defense, civilian, health, and state and local markets. Every day, our employees do the can't be done, solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. This is a remote position.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree and a minimum 5 years' experience. Additional 4 years of experience maybe accepted in lieu of the degree.

• Experience in Federal or Government security domain.

• AWS Security Specialty Certification

• One or more of the leading Security certifications (i.e. CISSP, CISM, CISA, CRISC)

• Experience with ATOs

• 5+ years of hands-on enterprise level implementation experience in AWS.

• Experience providing SecOps implementation.

• Working knowledge of source version control, build/release tools and methodologies, NIST Security practices.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience with Terraform IaC coding.

• Experience with software build process.

• Must be a US Citizen.

• Must be able to obtain and maintain the required agency clearance (Public Trust).

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS Professional Level certifications.

• Active Public Trust is a plus.

Responsibilities:

• Define Information System Categorization (High, Moderate, or Low). System categorization is defined by identifying the information types and data classification that the information system will store, process, and/or transmit. Determine the Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability impact rating of such data and provide:

• Manage the AWS Cloud Security Score Card for the FAPC Data Integration Service offering.

• Gather daily insights from AWS Security Hub, AWS GuardDuty, AWS Heath, AWS Config to mitigate as required.

• Work closely with Platform and Vendor teams to address and mitigate the root cause of ongoing non-compliance.

• Review, investigate and mitigate non-compliant controls, including supporting Terraform IaC code changes.

• Investigate build pipelines, IaC and confirm finding resolution

• CI/CD DevSecOps requirements (configured for all environments Dev, Test, UAT, Staging, Prod)

• Complete System Security Plan in accordance with the system categorization. This is a list of all the required security controls that an information system must meet. Controls can either be Inherited by a provider, Hybrid where the control is partially provided by a provider and the other by the system owner, or Fully Owned by the system owner. Accordingly, provide:

• System Security Plan (~400 controls for CFS.20 Baseline) with supporting artifacts.

• Implement System Security Plan on the information system

• Support Security Control Assessment (SCA) - technical and non-technical review of the information system(s) controls performed by a third-party assessor.

• Contextualize assessment results and record in RISC for risk management tracking

• Support NIRT penetration testing per SAFR CA-8 control requirement

• Attend the scheduled SCA interviews and provide supporting documentation at the interviewer's request.

• Ensure the system's UAT environment is available for security testing. (No other testing can occur at this time).

• Provision access to UAT to the assessors.

• Assemble Authorization To Operate for AO review and approval at consultation meeting:

• Review and maintain accuracy of ATO processes in support of PO activities with Authorizing Official.

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