Senior Cloud Security Engineer

🔥 11 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $135k - $216k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Peraton

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10,000+ employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Peraton is a mission-focused enterprise that supports national security initiatives through advanced IT and cyber services. They provide capabilities in areas such as cyber defense, cloud operations, engineering, and intelligence. With a commitment to solving complex challenges, Peraton integrates data-driven technologies to ensure mission success for their military and government clients.

📋 Description

• Lead proactive, hypothesis-driven threat hunting across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI environments • Use threat intelligence and the MITRE ATT&CK framework to identify adversary activity missed by automated tools • Analyze cloud-native telemetry and SIEM data to investigate suspicious activity • Administer and optimize Qualys and Tenable scanning across 70+ cloud customer tenants • Manage scan policies, agent and connector deployment, asset coverage, and credentialed scanning • Analyze vulnerability and configuration findings, eliminate false positives, and prioritize remediation • Lead remediation by coordinating with engineering and patching teams to patch, harden, or apply compensating controls • Verify remediation closure through rescanning • Identify and remediate cloud misconfigurations, excessive IAM permissions, exposed services, and STIG/CIS benchmark deviations • Develop and tune detection rules, queries, and automated hunt playbooks • Support incident response with scoping, containment recommendations, and root cause analysis • Produce hunt reports, remediation tracking, and POA&M inputs • Brief findings and risk to customers, ISSOs/ISSMs, and leadership • Mentor junior security engineers

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelors degree and 12 years of experience, or a Masters degree and 10 years of experience, or an Associates degree and 14 years of experience, or a High School diploma/equivalent and 16 years of experience • Must be a U.S. Citizen • Ability to obtain/maintain a DHS Public Trust • 8+ years of experience in information security, including 5+ years in cloud security engineering • Hands-on security experience in at least three of AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI • Expertise with Qualys (VMDR, Cloud Agent, Policy Compliance) and Tenable (Tenable.io, Tenable.sc, Nessus) • Experience conducting threat hunts and investigations using the MITRE ATT&CK framework • Proficiency writing queries and analyzing logs in a SIEM or log platform such as Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, or Elastic • Experience remediating vulnerabilities and misconfigurations on Windows and Linux systems, containers, and cloud-native services • In-depth understanding of cloud IAM, network security, encryption, and logging architecture • Scripting or automation experience in Python, PowerShell, or Bash • Familiarity with Terraform or Ansible • Working knowledge of STIGs, CIS Benchmarks, and NIST 800-53 controls • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Investigative mindset, strong analytical skills, and attention to detail • Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, GCIH, GCTI, GCFA, AWS Certified Security - Specialty, Microsoft AZ-500, or Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer are preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Life insurance • Health savings account • Short-term disability • Long-term disability • Employee assistance program (EAP) • Parental leave • 401(k) • Paid time off (PTO) for vacation • Company paid holidays • Potential eligibility for overtime • Potential eligibility for shift differential • Potential eligibility for a discretionary bonus

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