Cloud Cybersecurity Engineer at The Amatriot Group in Sterling, VA

Job description

• The Amatriot Group is seeking a Cloud Cybersecurity Engineer to join Intel project based in
• Sterling, VA. Cloud security engineers are an integral part of the development team and are
• expected to be flexible and adaptive to supporting the needs of the program. Responsibilities
• include serving as information security specialist, reviewing all software, hardware, and
• infrastructure changes on the contracts, following the risk management framework process to
• support system accreditation, continuous monitoring, security mitigation; maintain security
• documentation, and other tasks as necessary. Additionally, candidate will be integral to
• development of new cyber monitoring, cyber hardening, and cyber response plan for large
• program with multiple applications. As an engineer on the program, candidate will be
• responsible for researching, designing, testing, and implementing cyber security features that
• meet new and demanding environments. The right candidate will understand software
• development, system administration, networking, and security and be able to take a holistic
• systems level approach to influence how we build our applications to meet the higher level
• security requirements associated with a system that bridges security domains, as well as
• someone who can help the software engineers understand zero trust architecture for a multireleasability
• domain

Responsibilities

• Serve as a cybersecurity subject matter expert across system-level architecture and
• operational environments.
• Navigating the command line and executing audit and log analysis.
• Running vulnerability scans and supporting OS hardening.
• Supporting system patching and configuration management efforts
• Generates certification and accreditation (C&A) documentation and artifacts (ie. System
• Security Plans, Network Interface Planning Documents, etc.) for import / upload to the
• SNOW tool.
• Conduct network troubleshooting to identify, diagnose, and mitigate potential
• cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
• Managing AWS security group rule changes, IAM roles and policies, and
• VPC/network requests.
• Ensuring proper logging, monitoring, and access controls across AWS
• environments.
• Collaborate with development teams to create, maintain, and monitor data connections,
• NPE security certificates, firewall connection requests.
• Continually implement and improve DevSecOps process maintained in Linux/Cloud
• based development environment.
• Coordinates with appropriate Security Control Assessors (SCAs) early in engineering
• design phase for ongoing coordination, understating in development and application of
• security controls, and security tradeoffs and other decisions.

Requirements

• Education
• Bachelors Degree in relevant technical field (Information Systems, Systems
• Engineering, IT, Computer Science, etc.)
• Additional Years of experience will be considered in lieu of degree.
• Experience
• Linux System Administration
• Cybersecurity engineering or information assurance.
• Cloud-based environments, preferably AWS.
• 7+ years of relevant experience if lacking relevant degree.
• Skills
• Understanding of engineering in software development within operational
• environments.
• Experience with vulnerability assessment tools, audit log assessment, and system
• hardening practices.
• Certifications
• IAT Level II Compliant certification required prior to starting.
• Prior experience supporting Intel Community Application Development contracts.

Skills

Required

• Linux System Administration
• Cloud-based environments, preferably AWS