Senior Cloud Engineer - GA

Genesis10 - Atlanta, GA

Full-time - Mid Level

Atlanta, GA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Genesis10 is currently seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer Consultant with our client in the transportation industry in their Atlanta, GA location. This is a 12 + month contract position. Our client is on a journey to become the best IT organization in the airline industry, a journey of transformation. They are changing the way we do business from top to bottom as we strive to create meaningful and innovative solutions and are looking for team members to help us realize our vision. The Senior Cloud Engineer Consultant will play a critical role in identifying weaknesses and vulnerabilities that affect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of corporate protected, sensitive, and confidential company information and data. This position requires a strong focus on security practices within the DevSecOps model, ensuring that security is integrated into the development lifecycle and that security requirements are met at every stage of the process. The consultant will conduct Static Application Security Tests (SAST) and Dynamic Application Security Tests (DAST) using tools like VeraCode, and will provide operational support for container security tools such as Palo Alto Prisma and Aqua. Additionally, the consultant will be responsible for performing vulnerability scans on container environments, developing and maintaining containerized application security, and troubleshooting connectivity or operational issues. The role also involves validating and addressing vulnerability findings from static and dynamic analysis tools, characterizing threats, and providing recommendations for remediation. The consultant will need to effectively communicate technical issues to non-technical leaders and drive awareness of security practices among developers. This position is essential for ensuring that security is a priority in the development of internal products and that adequate security requirements are built into all architecture and infrastructure projects.

Responsibilities

• Identify weaknesses and vulnerabilities that affect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of corporate protected, sensitive and confidential company information and data
• Conduct Static Application Security Test (SAST) and Dynamic Application Security Test (DAST) using VeraCode
• Work within the DevSecOps model to secure Containers, within ROSA, Tekton and OpenShift pipelines
• Provide operational support for container security tools (Palo Alto Prisma, Aqua, or equivalent)
• Perform Baseline Image validation of new container template images
• Perform Vulnerability scans on container environments
• Develop, test, and maintain containerized applications security
• Troubleshoot any connectivity or operational issues
• Ensure security requirements are implemented within various stages of the system development lifecycle process; work closely with development teams to pen test new features within internally developed applications
• Utilize software development skills (e.g., Java, C#.NET, JavaScript) to recommend secure coding practices
• Validate and address vulnerability/threat findings from static and dynamic analysis tools
• Characterize threats and provide recommendations for remediation; manage remediation efforts to completion
• Develop and present finding and remediation reports to audiences including team members from all department areas and levels of the company
• Perform security reviews of software designs and assist developers to ensure quality and robustness of our internal products
• Conduct security assessments against web applications and APIs across a variety of technology stacks
• Ensure adequate security requirements and privacy by design are built into all architecture/infrastructure/projects
• Integrate threat modeling practices into the application testing lifecycle
• Impart application security and ethical hacking subject matter expertise into team processes
• Drive improvements in the security testing practice to include execution methodology and metrics
• Partner effectively with development and infrastructure teams to integrate security
• Drive awareness and knowledge of security in developers
• Effectively communicate technical issues to non-technical leaders
• Continually improve proficiency in application and API exploitation, tools, techniques, and countermeasures

Requirements

• B.S. degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Assurance or related field
• Minimum 5+ years of professional experience in application security, penetration testing, security assessment, secure software development or related field
• Possess a knowledge of CI/CD orchestration tools such as Jenkins, Tekton, GitLab, or Bamboo
• Extensive knowledge with dynamic scanners like Palo Alto Prisma or VeraCode
• Extensive knowledge of the OWASP Top 10
• Experience with vulnerability risk and impact assessment
• Experience integrating security capabilities in cloud and application lifecycle management platforms especially in a DevOps model
• Extensive knowledge of the secure development lifecycle
• Extensive knowledge with static analysis tools and flaw triage such as Client Fortify, IBM Rational, Veracode or Coverity, FindBugs, FindSecurityBugs, Brakeman and Open Source scanning tools such as Sonatype CLM
• Extensive knowledge with vulnerability scanners like Qualys and Tenable
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong sense of urgency and ownership

Nice-to-haves

• Extensive experience in application security and ethical hacking
• Extensive experience exploiting web, mobile and application security vulnerabilities
• Extensive experience in software development
• Extensive experience integrating secure coding techniques with product teams
• Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, OSCP and CEH

Benefits

• Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years.
• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
• Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
• Behavioral Health Platform
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• 401K
• Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
• Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF)
• Remote opportunities available