Position: Sr. Cloud Security Architect
Location: Sterling, VA – Hybrid 
Duration: 6 months 
Compensation: $80/hr. – 90/hr.
Work Requirements: US Citizen, GC Holders or Authorized to Work in the U.S.

What We Do/Project

The Cloud Security Architect is a technology and process focused thought-leader with an emphasis in public cloud architecture and engineering. As a lead member of the cloud security team, the Cloud Security Architect will help support the infosec functions of policy shaping, architectural reviews, compliance, and assessment while providing direct guidance to product and engineering teams for all public cloud related matters in Azure, GCP and AWS.

Job Responsibilities / Typical Day in the Role

• Act as a Cloud Security Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Infosec department.
• Identify opportunities to reduce cloud security risk for client, to solution, and to lead implementations.
• Create design artifacts to enable members of the Cloud Security team to implement solutions (built in-house or purchased from vendor).
• Partner with product teams to design secure network and serverless architectures.
• Provide strong IAM Policy guidance for least privileged access to product teams.
• Review cloud architecture and AI/ML workflows to advise development teams on strong security design principles and identification of issues prior to deployment of systems or features.
• Interface with Public Cloud providers to improve the security feature set of their products.
• Interface with cloud security vendors to evaluate features and determine proof-of-value.
• Mentor junior members of the team.
• Create and maintain documentation as it relates to cloud security designs/configurations, processes, standards, and recommendations.
• Collaborate with senior management and department leaders to assess near- and long-term cloud security needs.
• Stay current with the latest cloud threat mitigation tools and techniques

Years experience:

• 7-10+ years of experience in Cloud Security Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering.

Technology requirements:

• Experience with securing/building Azure cloud environments
• Proficient in at least one scripting language (python, Nodejs, Golang).
• Core understanding of IP Networking, routing, VPNs.
• Hands-on experience with some the following:
  • Security administration in Azure
  • Developing & Securing Serverless applications
  • Infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible)
  • Command Line experience (Bash, Powershell, AWS-CLI)
  • Docker and Kubernetes
  • Cloud Network (VPC) engineering
  • Cloud native security related tools (Azure Defender for Cloud, AWS Guard Duty, GCP Security Center, WAF)
  • GitHub Security

Must Have Skills / Requirements

1) Experience Designing and Implementing systems that support multiple users.

• 2+ years of experience; Design, Implementation, and Maintenance of systems used by users.

2) The ability to evaluate technical documentation and diagrams for cloud environments and identify security issues in those designs.

• 2+ years of experience; Security Architectural Reviews and ability to create design artifacts – including infrastructure diagrams.

3) Ability to review technical configuration and identify mitigating controls for security related misconfigurations

• 2+ years; Experience Managing Exception Requests

Nice to Have Skills / Preferred Requirements

1) AWS Certifications – AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Security Specialty
2) GCP Certifications – Associate Cloud Engineer, Professional Security Engineer
3) Security Engineer Certifications – CISSP, CompTIA Security+
4) Previous Experience with Wiz, Splunk, Brinqa, integrations with Slack and Jira

Soft Skills

• Strong understanding of cloud-based infrastructure components with specific understanding of the security risks presented in a decentralized and hybrid environment.
• Broad understanding of information security and compliance risk, and how those apply to Public Cloud.
• Comfortable automating processes start to finish and can work closely with cloud solutions engineering and product teams to help integrate security into their existing processes.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a strong attention to detail.
• Remains productive while rapidly switching context.
• Has a thirst for knowledge and constantly driven to stay current with evolving threat landscapes.

Education / Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Security, or related field.
• Azure Certifications – Azure Fundamentals, Solutions Architect

Our benefits package includes:

• Comprehensive medical benefits
• Competitive pay
• 401(k) retirement plan
• …and much more!

About INSPYR Solutions

Technology is our focus and quality is our commitment. As a national expert in delivering flexible technology and talent solutions, we strategically align industry and technical expertise with our clients’ business objectives and cultural needs. Our solutions are tailored to each client and include a wide variety of professional services, project, and talent solutions. By always striving for excellence and focusing on the human aspect of our business, we work seamlessly with our talent and clients to match the right solutions to the right opportunities. Learn more about us at inspyrsolutions.com.

INSPYR Solutions provides Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, INSPYR Solutions complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.

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