Lead Cloud Security Engineer (CISSP)

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Lead Cloud Security Engineer with a CISSP f or a contract assignment with one of our premier Regulatory clients. Must be local and willing to work hybrid in one of these offices: Tysons VA or Rockville MD.
Initial contract length 6 months (probable extension).
Certification requirements: CISSP + AWS or Azure Architect Required Skills

• Strong AWS and Azure security experience
• 8+ years of security experience
• 2+ years in a Lead role (ideally current)
• CISSP - non negotiable
• Cloud Architect certification in AWS or Azure

Preferrred Skills
Google Cloud Platform experience
Responsibilities :

• Cloud security reviews and assessments
• Identify and remediate security/non-compliance issues
• Implement preventative security controls
• Drive security issues from a configuration/admin perspective
• Cloud networking changes and security remediation
• Larger security projects, including:
  • AWS GuardDuty
  • Azure networking/security
• Work autonomously and drive issues to resolution
• Ensure that security risks are comprehensively and effectively managed though leading the application of established and ad hoc processes and techniques to identify, validate, and prioritize.
• Lead the identification of security requirement deficiencies, eliciting of security requirements, and the architecture and design of security controls.
• Develop and implement strategies to promote consistent use of security controls across the enterprise.
• Lead the operation and monitoring of security controls.
• Establish, implement, and promote security control operation and monitoring strategies.
• Ensure that controls are operating effectively; resolve operating discrepancies.
• Review, triage, and prioritize control output.
• Take appropriate action to resolve security discrepancies.
• Lead the identification, evaluation, and recommendation of new security technologies, techniques, and tools.
• Lead team in defining, reviewing, and promoting information security policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures.
• Lead and champion efforts to enforce and monitor compliance with internal and external regulations, policies, and standards.
• Establish and promote strategies to ensure that compliance is effectively monitored and enforced.
• Direct internal process improvement initiatives.
• Provide feedback on processes by offering suggestions.
• Mentor junior staff.
• Participate in external process improvement committees as a Quality Assurance representative.
• Provide backup coverage for next level management, as appropriate.
• Assist with adherence to technology policies and comply with all security controls.
• Ensure all work products meets/exceeds the firm standards. Demonstration of the firm's values. Collaboration, both in-person and virtually, in furtherance of the firm's mission of investor protection and market integrity.

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