Epitec

Title: IT Security Analyst

Location: Houston, TX – (Katy, TX site)

Details: Contract with ongoing need, opportunity for direct hire

Pay Rate: $50.00 – 55.00/hr. with benefit inclusions

Job Summary

We are harnessing the cloud and leveraging containers and orchestration solutions now more than ever. We're looking for a Container Security Engineer to help us support our larger cloud security goals and objectives while enabling agility across the enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Implement and secure industry-leading container technologies that meet our security team needs and take advantage of Google Cloud capabilities while enabling agility.
• Apply specialized knowledge of container security and orchestration to develop security solutions in multi-cloud environments and protect data across clouds and platforms.
• Work on a dynamic, cross-functional team and employ automation and cybersecurity best practices in ASM/Istio and Google Kubernetes Engine.
• Coordinate with architecture, developers, DevOps, and industry-leading vendors to identify the right mix of tools and techniques to translate the team's goals and objectives into a plan that will enable secure and effective cloud-hosted solutions powered by Google.
• Create and manage cloud-native solutions on Google Cloud within a secure environment, providing opportunities to explore different ways of solving organizational problems.
• Partner with stakeholders and the cloud security team to deliver the right technical solutions.
• Engage in mentoring, challenging hands-on problem-solving, and opportunities to learn new tools and skills, focusing on growing as a team to provide the best solutions.

Years of Experience and Education

1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
2. Typically a minimum of eight years of technical experience in the security aspects of multiple platforms, operating systems, software, communications, and network protocols or an equivalent combination.

Skills Required

• Experience with containers, orchestration solutions, and cloud-managed Kubernetes services such as Google Kubernetes Engine.
• Experience designing, implementing, and operating container security solutions.
• Experience using, managing, and securing continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline solutions using GitHub Actions/Workflows.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaaC) concepts and tools, including Terraform and Ansible. Demonstrable work experience coding IaaC solutions.
• Experience with the Prisma Cloud tool for Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP).
• Experience with Wiz for CWPP (Highly Desirable).
• Experience with scripting languages to automate tasks such as Bash, Python, or PowerShell, and configuration automation tools, including Ansible, Salt Stack, and Puppet.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity concepts, including threats, vulnerabilities, security operations, encryption, boundary defense, auditing, authentication, and supply chain risk management.
• Knowledge of secure configuration guidelines, including DoD STIGs and CIS benchmarks.
• Knowledge of NIST guidelines for container security.
• Experience drafting and creating migration plans from one platform to another, including requirements gathering and analysis.
• Experience drafting security playbooks.
• Splunk experience highly desirable.
• Certified Prisma Cloud Security Engineer, Kubernetes Security Specialist, and/or Kubernetes Administrator highly preferred.

Additional Skills:

• Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance.
• Encryption and data backup.
• Risk assessments and firewall management.
• Internal controls and problem-solving.
• Information security and Microsoft Office proficiency.
• Intrusion detection.

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Epitec
Houston