AWS Cloud Security Engineer

Latitude It Solutions - Melbourne, FL

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Melbourne, FL

11-50 employees

About the position

The AWS Cloud Security Engineer at Latitude IT Solutions is responsible for ensuring the security and efficiency of cloud infrastructure, particularly focusing on Splunk. This role involves advising on cost optimization, automating policy management, maintaining documentation, and developing best practices for cloud operations. The engineer will monitor performance, maintain network configurations, and support large-scale deployments while collaborating with various stakeholders to enhance Splunk adoption and customer success.

Responsibilities

• Advise on cost efficiency for future usage and cost optimization for current infrastructure.
• Automate the management and enforcement of policies.
• Create and maintain documentation related to architecture and operational processes for Splunk.
• Develop a set of best practices and architecture patterns.
• Maintain regulatory compliance of the Splunk infrastructure.
• Monitor and maintain Splunk performance, availability, and capacity.
• Maintain cloud network configurations.
• Maintain gold images.
• Offer solutions for Splunk technical questions, issues, and escalations.
• Provide best practices in adoption, expansion, and operations of Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud.
• Provide operations monitoring of Splunk platform to enable proactive issue identification, response, and resolution.
• Recommend and execute improvements to the existing Splunk architecture and design with growth and scalability in mind.
• Responsible for reporting on current infrastructure status, and planning for future usage.
• Responsible for Splunk agent deployment and server infrastructure analysis, optimization, and capacity planning.
• Support and guide client resources for increasing Splunk adoption and overall customer success.
• Support large-scale deployments with data feeds from multiple on-premise and cloud data centers.
• Upgrade, install, configure monitoring solution for AWS for Windows and Linux servers.
• Utilize automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, AWS Cloud Formation, Azure Resource Manager, or similar.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering or other Engineering or Technical Discipline.
• AWS Solution Architect Professional or Azure Architect Expert certification.
• 4 years of relevant experience in tools like Science Logic, Dynatrace, Turbot, AppDynamics.
• Minimum of three years of experience in leading technical teams to achieve objectives and outcomes.
• Minimum of six years setting up, configuring, and using AWS/Azure cloud operational tools.
• Minimum of three years specific to monitoring Centralized Logging Solution such as Splunk.
• Multi-Cloud experience in implementing solutions within Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Experience with programming in Splunk language (SPL) or equivalent (e.g., Python, Powershell, AWS or Azure CLI).
• One or more Splunk certifications such as Splunk Core Certified Power User or Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin.
• Knowledge of enterprise logging, focusing on security event logging.
• A solid understanding of Cloud concepts, either using Azure or AWS semantics.

Nice-to-haves

• Ability to communicate clearly with all levels in an organization.
• Active clearance for Public Trust (High-Risk) Position.
• Background that includes at least one core technology; Linux/Windows or database admin experience.
• Experience working in a CMMI-DEV or CMMI-SVC environment at Maturity Level 3 or above.
• ITIL certification or experience with ITIL.
• Strong ability to foster collaborative work in a dynamic team environment.
• Strong creative, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong knowledge of storage, servers, data centers, and networking.

Benefits

• Medical
• Vision
• Dental
• PTO
• Sick leave
• 401k with employer match