Cloud Security Engineer

Overview

The successful candidate will be a subject matter expert with hands-on experience with cloud technologies, tools and methodologies with a particular focus on Microsoft Azure. The role is suited for an experienced Cloud Security Engineer with proven understanding in enterprise security and will focus on building tool sets and processes to support Navy’s Cloud program.

Navy’s Cloud Organization fosters a collaborative environment and is building a best-in-class Cloud program that protects Navy Federal information and cloud compute environments.

Responsibilities

• Support the ongoing and critical work within the Enterprise Data workstream

• Securing, managing, and optimizing mission-critical data services across our cloud infrastructure

• Contribute to the vision, strategy, and drive execution for integrated security controls across Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) for Navy’s Azure environment.

• Able to demonstrate clear understanding of current risks and threats to Cloud infrastructure and/or IT infrastructures at technical and manager audiences.

• Provide security consultancy and engineering support for cloud security solutions including analysis and development of Azure and other security solutions.

• Provide architecture assurance on Cloud security initiatives and compliance of existing security standards interfacing with infrastructure and development teams.

• Maintain the security infrastructure tools that are built on the Cloud platform, providing stability and policies and procedures.

• Develop and maintain documentation of all Security products including specific tools, technologies and processes.

• Participate in Information Security Incident Response activities for the NFCU’s environment.

• Respond to security vulnerabilities identified through periodic and on-demand system audits and vulnerability assessments of Cloud services.

• Monitor compliance with the organization’s information security policies and procedures among employees, contractors and third parties.

• Manage remediation efforts for any gaps reported in audits or recommended process improvements.

• Actively monitor new and emerging cloud security technologies, trends, issues, and solutions and assess their applicability to Navy Federal’s cloud strategy

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or similar field of study required

• Hands on experience with Azure Policy and Azure initiatives management

• Experience with Azure Key Vault integration, secrets, certificate and key management

• Hands-on experience with Access control technologies such as Azure RBAC, B2C; SAML SSO, oAuth 2.0 configuration, set-up and operations management

• Experience with Azure Access and Privileged Identity Management PIM

• Experience with Microsoft Defender for cloud

• Experience with Microsoft defender for cloud Apps and Defender for endpoints

• 5+ years’ experience working in a technical role with a minimum of 3 years’ experience focused on cloud security and access control.

• Experience with Azure Devops permission management and overall governance

• Strong knowledge of information security and access controls.

Desired Qualifications

• Industry certification (CISSP, CISA, Azure) of high interest

• Financial industry experience preferred

• Experience with other IaaS and PaaS elements such as compute services, Data Services and App Services.

• Experience with Azure Purview

• Working knowledge of App registration management and enterprise Applications

• Experience with Microsoft Fabrics, FinOps, Databricks, Azure Synapse, Alation, Confluent Kafka & SCIM API configuration

• Experience with Azure Resource Management Templates and Azure Bicep

• Understanding of encryption options in Azure such as CMK with DES and TDE

• Experience with certificate management for IaaS and PaaS elements

• Hands-on development and scripting skills in PowerShell 5

• Knowledge of Azure Policy as Code

• Experience with Azure Identity Governance

Hours: Monday – Friday, 8:00AM – 4:30PM

Locations: 820 Follin Lane, Vienna, VA 22180 5510 Heritage Oaks Drive, Pensacola, FL 32526 141 Security Drive, Winchester, VA 22602

About Us

Navy Federal provides much more than a job. We provide a meaningful career experience, including a culture that is energized, engaged and committed; and fierce appreciation for our teams, who are rewarded with highly competitive pay and generous benefits and perks.

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