United States onlyGuidePoint Security provides trusted cybersecurity expertise, solutions and services that help organizations make better decisions and minimize risk. By taking a three-tiered, holistic approach for evaluating security posture and ecosystems, GuidePoint enables some of the nation’s top organizations, such as Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies, to identify threats, optimize resources and integrate best-fit solutions that mitigate risk.
GuidePoint Security seeks an experienced and driven CNAPP cloud security professional to join our DevSecOps Security practice in the Mid-Atlantic.
Note: This is a remote position, but candidates living in our Mid-Atlantic region (VA, MD, PA, NC, DE, NJ, or DC) are highly preferred.
Summary
As a CNAPP Security Engineer, you will be part of a growing team of highly skilled cybersecurity experts providing delivery services for customers in several verticals. Your primary responsibilities revolve around partnering with our customers to advise, develop, implement, and run CNAPP Cloud Security tools. You will constantly learn about and utilize the newest cloud security technologies, such as CNAPP, IaC, CSPM, and CWPP technologies,
Role and Responsibilities:
- Perform implementation of CNAPP and CSPM tools in multi-account AWS and Azure environments.
- Implement IaC scanning tools within the CI/CD Pipelines.
- Develop Infrastructure as code in Cloud Formation or Terraform.
- Develop custom control checks within CNAPP Platforms using JSON, REGO, or Terraform.
- Analysis – identifies and evaluates potential threats and vulnerabilities to the public cloud environments network, applications, infrastructure, and systems.
- Issue Resolution – leads the resolution of identified issues in public cloud environments.
- Vulnerabilities – Cloud, System, and Application
- Compliance – CIS, NIST, AWS, and Azure best practices.
- Cloud Entitlements – Excessive Permissions and various IAM best practices.
- Secrets – unprotected secrets on VMs, Containers, and IaC repositories.
- IaC – misconfigurations and vulnerabilities within developed IaC.
- Deep understanding of Kubernetes and microservices security best practices.
- Performs container registry scanning.
- Reviewing and creating metrics, KPIs, and KRIs to track overall cloud security posture.
- Create, maintain, and update runbooks for cloud configuration checks.
- Assess the overall security posture of cloud security infrastructure and workloads.
- Advise customers on Cloud security best practices.
Experience, Education, and Technical Requirements.
- At least 3 years of experience working in Cloud Security with Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, or GCP.
- Experience with Cloud Security tools like: Wiz.io, Orca, Lacework, Trivy, Aqua, Ermetic or Prisma Cloud
- Experience with integrating tools into development pipelines such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Etc.
- Understanding of a broad range of Cloud Security issues as well as their mitigation strategies
- Understanding of Cloud Security-related vulnerabilities
- Experience developing code in Terraform, Python, PowerShell, Rego, and other languages.
- Written communication skills for written interactions with clients
- Strong communication skills include articulating thoughts and refining complex problems into digestible information clearly.
- Ability to manage time independently while handling multiple projects concurrently.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or information Security preferred
- Cloud Security certifications are preferred.
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Why GuidePoint?
GuidePoint Security is a rapidly growing, profitable, privately-held value added reseller that focuses exclusively on Information Security. Since its inception in 2011, GuidePoint has grown to over 1000 employees, established strategic partnerships with leading security vendors, and serves as a trusted advisor to more than 4,200 customers.Firmly-defined core values drive all aspects of the business, which have been paramount to the company’s success and establishment of an enjoyable workplace atmosphere. At GuidePoint, your colleagues are knowledgeable, skilled, and experienced and will seek to collaborate and provide mentorship and guidance at every opportunity.
This is a unique and rare opportunity to grow your career along with one of the fastest growing companies in the nation.
Some added perks….
- Remote workforce primarily (U.S. based only, some travel may be required for certain positions, working on-site may be required for Federal positions)
- Group Medical Insurance options: Zero Deductible PPO Plan (GuidePoint pays 90% of the premium for employees and 70% for family plans (spouse/children/family) or High Deductible Health Plan with HSA (GuidePoint pays 100% of the employees premiums and 75% for family plans (spouse/children/family) and GPS will contribute in one lump sum: ($500 per EE annually / $1000 per family annually (includes spouse/children/family options)
- Group Dental Insurance: GuidePoint pays 100% of the premium for employees and 75% of family plans
- 12 corporate holidays and a Flexible Time Off (FTO) program
- Healthy mobile phone and home internet allowance
- Eligibility for retirement plan after 2 months at open enrollment
- Pet Benefit Option
