Cloud Security Engineer SME - TS/SCI with Polygraph

Public Trust: None

Requisition Type: Regular

Your Impact

Own your opportunity to serve as a critical component of our nation’s safety and security. Make an impact by using your expertise to protect our country from threats.

Job Description

Cloud Engineer, Subject Matter Expert

Own your career as a Cloud Engineer, Subject Matter Expert (SME). Here, you’ll have the opportunity to:

• Recommend the most effective methods of securely configuring new and existing Cloud services in the customers environment.

• Develop Cloud configurations to be hosted on GITHUB and available for use by project teams using terraform or native cloud vendor scripting services.

• Recommend rules for detecting and alerting on Cloud configurations.

• Collaborate with Cloud vendors to include Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle, and Google to review the security features of the offerings.

• Assess and recommend Cloud resources and identify policies for the enterprise across the major Cloud vendors.

Your work in Cloud engineering at GDIT will have an impact on securing our clients’ missions and ensuring we anticipate the threats of tomorrow.

At GDIT, people are our differentiators. As a Cloud Engineer, SME, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a Cloud Engineer, SME joining our team as a member of the client’s Cloud (Security) Engineering Team, specializing in providing guidance and support to the client’s Cyber and Cloud technology program(s).

HOW A CLOUD ENGINEER, SME WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

You will consult with customers/clients regarding the most effective methods of securely configuring new and existing Cloud services (across multiple Cloud vendors) in the customers environment.

In addition, you will plan, prepare, and execute tests against Cloud services/technologies used to secure systems and reduce cyber risk. You will coordinate with stakeholders across the organization to identify and clarify specifications, requirements, and performance measures, leveraging your engineering expertise to document and codify use cases for mission partners and collaborate with service providers to ensure solutions meet the operational needs.

The Cloud Engineer, SME, should have proven experience communicating effectively with a variety of business partners and customers and have a demonstrated capacity to develop effective interpersonal relationships; strong analytic and organization skills; self-starting skills; the ability to work effectively and independently, with little direction; ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks simultaneously.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Analyzes customer requirements and provides highly innovative technical expertise on cloud computing techniques and related cloud architecture.

• Identifies vulnerabilities and risks associated with Cloud misconfigurations, particularly with respect to systems processing extremely sensitive data.

• Helps to define and update Cloud security standards/requirements necessary to minimize the risks associated with Cloud misconfigurations.

• Assists with establishing an approach to monitoring compliance with specific Cloud security standards of systems in the Cloud.

• Develop scripts, terraform files, and/or Cloud Development Kits (CDK) to assist project teams with an automated means to implement and validate Cloud configuration standards.

• Reviews and analyzes Cloud configuration compliance data to inform risk remediation and/or risk mitigation strategies.

• Maintains current and advanced knowledge of progressive and advancing technology as assigned.

• Provides expert guidance and leadership to less experienced cloud development personnel.

• May serve as a task or project leader. (Not a people manager)

• May consult with executives and customers to deliver complex cloud development solutions.

• Recognized as a subject matter expert in cloud technology.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

• Education: Technical Training, Certification(s) and/or Degree (Cyber Security, Computer Science, Information Technology, etc.)

• Required Experience: 10+ years of related experience.

• Required Technical Skills:

  • Demonstrated experience Cloud services vendors (Amazon, Microsoft, Google and/or Oracle).

  • Demonstrated experience with enterprise cybersecurity management platforms.

• Required Skills and Abilities:

  • Demonstrated experience engineering and deploying IT/Cloud capabilities.

  • Demonstrated ability to provide triage effectively and independently, and problem resolution for technical issues.

  • Demonstrated record of sound judgment and problem-solving skills necessary to make recommendations to Customer management.

  • Demonstrated working knowledge of information security policies and regulations.

  • Excellent written and oral communication skills.

• Desired Skills and Abilities:

  • Demonstrated experience with implementation and assessment of security controls that support authorization and accreditation processes.

  • Demonstrated experience supporting the NIST Risk Management Framework.

  • Demonstrated project management experience.

• Recommended Certifications:

  • AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, CCSP, CCSK, CISSP

• Location: Customer Site (Herndon, VA)

• Security Clearance Level: TS/SCI w/poly

• US Citizenship Required

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE

• Flexible work week to own your priorities at work and at home.

• 401K with company match

• Comprehensive health and wellness packages

• An Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career.

• Professional growth opportunities, including paid education and certifications.

• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from.

• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays.

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Work Requirements

Years of Experience

15 + years of related experience

* may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree

Certification

Travel Required

Less than 10%

Citizenship

U.S. Citizenship Required