Senior Cloud Engineer - GA

Immediate need for a talented Senior Cloud Engineer - GA. This is a 12 + months Contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Atlanta, GA. Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Job ID: 24-33765

Pay Range: $70.92/hour.  Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify weaknesses and vulnerabilities that affect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of corporate protected, sensitive and confidential company information and data
• Conduct Static Application Security Test (SAST) and Dynamic Application Security Test (DAST) using VeraCode
•  Work within the DevSecOps model to secure Containers, withing ROSA, Tekton and OpenShift pipelines
• Possess a knowledge of CI/CD orchestration tools such as Jenkins, Tekton, GitLab, or Bamboo.
•  Provide operational support for container security tools (Palo Alto Prisma, Aqua, or equivalent)
• Perform Baseline Image validation of new container template images.
•  Perform Vulnerability scans on container environments. Develop, test, and maintain containerized applications security
•  Troubleshoot any connectivity or operational issues.
•  Ensure security requirements are implemented within various stages of the system development lifecycle process; work closely with development teams to pen test new features within internally developed applications
•  Apply software development skills (e.g., Java, C#.NET, JavaScript) to recommend secure coding practices
• Validate and address vulnerability / threat findings from static and dynamic analysis tools
•  Characterizes threats and provides recommendations for remediation; manages remediation efforts to completion
• Develops and presents finding and remediation reports to audiences including team members from all department areas and levels of the company
•  Perform security reviews of software designs and assist developers to ensure quality and robustness of our internal products
• Conduct security assessments against web applications and APIs across a variety of technology stacks
•  Ensure adequate security requirements and privacy by design are built into all architecture/infrastructure/projects
•  Integrating threat modeling practices into the application testing lifecycle
•  Impart application security and ethical hacking subject matter expertise into team processes
•  Drive improvements in the security testing practice to include execution methodology and metrics
•  Partner effectively with development and infrastructure teams to integrate security
• Drive awareness and knowledge of security in developers
•  Effectively communicate technical issues to non-technical leaders
• Continually improve proficiency in application and API exploitation, tools, techniques, and countermeasures

• B.S. degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Assurance or related field
•  Minimum 5+ years of professional experience in application security, penetration testing, security assessment, secure software development or related field
• Extensive knowledge with dynamic scanners like Palo Alto Prisma or VeraCode.
• Extensive knowledge of the OWASP Top 10
• Experience with vulnerability risk and impact assessment
• Experience integrating security capabilities in cloud and application lifecycle management platforms especially in a DevOps model
•  Extensive knowledge of the secure development lifecycle
•  Extensive knowledge with static analysis tools and flaw triage such as Client Fortify, IBM Rational, Veracode or Coverity, FindBugs, FindSecurityBugs, Brakeman and Open Source scanning tools such as Sonatype CLM
•  Extensive knowledge with vulnerability scanners like Qualys and Tenable
•  Excellent written and verbal communication skills
•  Strong sense of urgency and ownership
• Extensive experience in application security and ethical hacking
•  Extensive experience exploiting web, mobile and application security vulnerabilities
• Extensive experience in software development
• Extensive experience integrating secure coding techniques with product teams
•  Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, OSCP and CEH

Our client is a leading Airlines organization and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration. 

Pyramid Consulting, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, colour, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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