Bring Your Leadership to Cloud Security

Security remains the top concern as the cloud grows in popularity. ScaleSec was founded to address this concern, guiding customers on using the cloud securely through strategic advisory services, implementation assistance, and ongoing education. Our customers rely on us as trusted advisors to work side-by-side with their teams to demonstrate cloud security, scale their operation, and decrease risk.

We are seeking new team members with a passion for helping customers first and foremost, and with a desire for lifelong learning.

The ideal candidate passionately believes that security is best implemented by automating preventative, low-friction guardrails, and can patiently guide customers to this ideal state. In addition to proficiency in the areas described below, those who will excel in this role have the willingness and ability to jump in and learn quickly, along with exceptional diagnostic and problem solving skills. He or she is comfortable working with a diverse set of technologies and can move between them quickly, and has a strong customer service focus.

Job Responsibilities

As a Cloud Security Engineer at ScaleSec, you'll work directly with ScaleSec customers to meet their security needs within the cloud, including remediating any identified security and compliance gaps within cloud environments.

What you'll do:

• Analyze logs and ensure appropriate monitoring and alerting are in place and effective for responding to potential security incidents
• Identify and address non-compliance with established baselines and standards
• Remediate insecure and misconfigured cloud resources
• Create secure infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation) to deploy, manage, and remediate existing resources within the cloud environment
• Implement and train teams on the usage of security best practices
• Follow architectural and security best practices for cloud configurations
• Work hands-on with teams such as cloud operations, devops, incident response, platform, product, and application teams to protect and manage cloud environments
• Support developers ensure insecure resources are not provisioned or configured

Required Education

High school diploma, GED, or comparable military duty required

NOTE: Candidates from all disciplines are encouraged to apply, as we recognize many viable paths to success.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Associate-level cloud architect certification for AWS or GCP
• At least 2 years of hands-on experience managing an enterprise cloud environment
• At least 2 years of hands-on experience with AWS or GCP
• At least 2 years of experience in an information technology role
• 1-2 years experience reading, writing, maintaining cloud infrastructure with Terraform

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Microsoft Azure
• Experience utilizing or maintaining an IaC CI/CD pipeline and policy enforcement
• Hands-on experience deploying, managing, and/or remediating cloud resources
• AWS and/or GCP professional cloud architect or security specialty certifications
• Understanding of common cloud network infrastructure, including firewalls and security groups, routing, VPNs, and DNS within the cloud
• Experience with Python scripting to automate manual processes
• Security+ certification or similar

Required Soft Skills

Consulting isn't just about tech chops. The ideal candidate for this position will:

• Continually fuel a burning desire to solve problems through research, critical thinking, experimentation, and sharing knowledge with the team
• Demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills
• Effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical personnel
• Ensure all work is done and documented in accordance with established and referenceable best practices and standards
• Embrace continual change and the opportunity to improve, even if it means changing or retiring an approach that worked for years
• Work in a self-directed, independent capacity

About ScaleSec

ScaleSec is a security-first consulting organization that helps enterprise organizations create or enhance cloud programs by offering hands-on architecture, implementation, automation, integration, and proof-of-concept services. Headquartered in Southern California, ScaleSec offers certified, qualified expertise for the most complex and difficult cloud security challenges.

We've been remote since inception, with occasional (up to 25%) travel to kick off assignments, and attend cloud conferences. We embrace work-life balance, flexible work schedule, and telecommuting work options. We enjoy leveraging the many apps that make collaboration and communication easy. We create a remote-friendly humans-first culture because we know you can deliver impactful results no matter where you live. We offer competitive benefits, performance bonuses, financial incentives for cloud certifications, and reimbursement incentives to help you set up your home office.

Base Pay: $90k - $115k

Medical,Dental,Vision,Life, and Disability Insurance. 401k, and Employee Assistance Program. Phone, internet, office and equipment assistance.

At this time, ScaleSec is unable to sponsor visas.