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Security Engineer

InstantServe LLC

Herndon · On-site Full-time Mid Level 1mo ago

About the role

About

We are looking for a Security Engineer to join our DevSecOps team. In this role, you will work closely with developers, ops engineers, and infosec team members to ensure security is built into our development lifecycle from the start.

Responsibilities

  • Performing infrastructure security reviews, threat modeling, and risk analysis for systems built on AWS and deployed via infrastructure-as-code tools like AWS CloudFormation
  • Implementing and managing security controls within AWS including IAM, VPCs, security groups, WAF, encryption, audit logging, etc.
  • Performing static and dynamic analysis on source code using tools like Anchor/Grype, SonarQube, and Syft to catch security issues early
  • Integrating security tools like secrets management, SAST, DAST, and dependency scanning into CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Enterprise and AWS CodePipeline
  • Building and configuring hardened Linux server images using tools like Packer that follow security best practices
  • Implementing security monitoring and runtime protection for containers and services running on AWS ECS
  • Helping define security requirements and compliance controls for regulated workloads built on AWS services like RDS Aurora
  • Creating and managing infrastructure security policies as code via tools like Open Policy Agent
  • Triaging and resolving security issues, working with developers and ops teams to implement fixes and improvements
  • Keeping up-to-date with the latest cloud security best practices and threats

Required Skills/Experience

  • 5+ years experience in an information, cloud, or infrastructure security role
  • Deep knowledge of AWS security services and features
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools like Ansible, Terraform, or CloudFormation
  • Proficiency in Linux administration and security best practices
  • Knowledge of container and orchestrator security (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)
  • Experience with DevSecOps processes and toolchains like GitHub, Jenkins, CodePipeline, etc.
  • Strong scripting/coding ability (Bash, Python, Go, etc.)
  • Knowledge of compliance frameworks like PCI, HIPAA, FedRAMP, etc.

Skills

AWS CloudFormationAWS CodePipelineAWS ECSAWS IAMAWS RDS AuroraAWS WAFAnsibleAnchorBashDockerGrypeGoGitHub EnterpriseKubernetesLinuxOpen Policy AgentPackerPCIPythonSonarQubeSyftTerraform

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