Azure Cloud Engineer

  • Blue Cross blue shield
  • Reston, VA, 20190
  • Contract > 12 months
  • Experienced

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Job Description:

Position: Lead Cloud Security Engineer OR (system Engineer)

Location: REMOTE ((must live in the United States/ East Coast preference, if they are a local DMV candidate (strongly preferre)))

Work Auth: Must be a US Citizen ….  

Duration: 6 month – Contract to Hire

Top 3 Skills:

  • Microsoft Azure
  • Strong experience with scripting languages, preferably PowerShell, JSON
  • Understanding of all common security systems, including firewalls, intrusion detection systems, anti-virus software, authentication systems, PKI, SIEM, DLP, etc
  • Understanding of network concepts and network monitoring tools such as Wireshark

Job Description:

Security team is looking for a highly motivated, self-starter, certified lead cloud security engineer, who enjoys the challenge of working in a fast pace environment. The engineer will be primarily tasked with the implementation of security in the Microsoft Azure cloud using code and automation. The engineer will join a team of skilled engineers and become a key contributor to the Security DevOps practice. The engineer must be comfortable with scripting, and possess a broad understanding of cloud technologies, including containerization. The engineer must be detailed oriented, security minded and highly reliable.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities  

• Implement and support security operations of production workloads in Microsoft Azure using code and automation

• Key contributor to the Security DevOps practice

• Conduct security analysis, troubleshooting, and threat hunting as required

• Participate or conduct security reviews

• Conduct security continuous monitoring activities and internal security compliance audits

• Participation in the development and maintenance of security standards, procedures and knowledge based articles

• Participate in an on-call rotation schedule

• Propose and implement as pertinent, new security solutions to address AAMVA future security challenges, conduct proof of concept

• Develop technical solutions and new security tools to help mitigate security vulnerabilities and automate repeatable tasks

 

Formal Education:

• General security certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CISA or equivalent o Ability to obtain the certification within 3 months of starting

• Technical certifications: AZ-500 Microsoft Azure Security Technologies or equivalent o Ability to obtain the certification within 3 months of starting

• Six to eight years of experience in supporting Windows environment in a Systems Engineer or Security Engineer capacity

Bachelor’s degree o College level courses and/or equivalent work experience may be substituted

 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

• Excellent communication skills, written and oral

• Excellent inter-personal skills; ability to interact and get along well with all layers of personnel

• Strong experience with scripting languages, preferably PowerShell, JSON

• Excellent problem solving skills and ability to work under pressure

• Strong technical knowledge and solid hands-on experience in securing a Windows environment

• Solid understanding of all common security systems, including firewalls, intrusion detection systems, anti-virus software, authentication systems, PKI, SIEM, DLP, etc.

• Solid understanding of network concepts and network monitoring tools such as Wireshark

• Practical experience with developing and present technical documentation such as architecture diagrams

• Experience working in highly regulated environments (NIST SP 800-53, ISO 27001…) is a plus

• Experience with AKS, Azure security constructs (e.g. Azure policies), and other is a definitive plus.

• Experience with Git and other DevOps toolsets is a plus

• Experience with Linux and Linux security is a plus

• Working knowledge of FISMA and/or NIST publications is a plus

• Ability to adapt quickly to new technologies and changing business requirements

• Flexible schedule allowing to work outside of standard business hours when necessary

 


Company Description:

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association is a federation of 35 separate United States health insurance companies that provide health insurance in the United States to more than 106 million people