Senior Cloud Security Engineer - SRE
Matlen Silver
Contract
Frisco, TX
Job description
Title: Senior Cloud Security Engineer/Architect
Locations: Alpharetta, GA, Columbus, OH, Berkeley Heights, NJ, Frisco, TX
Environment: Onsite
Duration: 6 month contract to hire
Contract pay: $68-$90/hour W2
Conversion salary: $150k-$188k
NO C2C
** Due to client requirements, US Citizen or GC Holder ONLY **
Requirements
Locations: Alpharetta, GA, Columbus, OH, Berkeley Heights, NJ, Frisco, TX
Environment: Onsite
Duration: 6 month contract to hire
Contract pay: $68-$90/hour W2
Conversion salary: $150k-$188k
NO C2C
** Due to client requirements, US Citizen or GC Holder ONLY **
Requirements
- Minimum 13+ years of professional experience in Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering.
- Strong Infrastructure as Code (IaC) expertise with Terraform-hands-on experience creating and managing EKS clusters, repositories, and Terraform modules.
- Architect, implement, and manage Azure IaaS infrastructure encompassing VNets, subnets, network security groups, VPN gateways, CDNs, Traffic Manager, peering, custom routes, DNS, DHCP, and virtual appliances.
- Proven proficiency across Azure and/or AWS (multi-cloud experience preferred).
- Strong security mindset with practical experience in IAM, vulnerability remediation, encryption, and patching.
- Solid understanding of DNS, Docker, Kubernetes, and containerization best practices.
- Experience with Windows and Linux/Unix system and network administration (8+ years).
- Proficiency in one or more programming/scripting languages: Python, Go, Bash, or Ruby.
- Expertise in Terraform, Ansible, or Chef for automation and configuration management.
- Hands-on experience with cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP) - including EC2, S3, Kubernetes, and serverless environments.
- Knowledge of networking fundamentals: DNS, firewalls, load balancing, and VPNs.
- Experience with container orchestration using Docker, Kubernetes, or OpenShift.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or New Relic.
- CI/CD pipeline development using Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or CircleCI.
- Bonus: Experience with HashiCorp Vault and advanced Terraform module design.
- Deep understanding of access control, encryption standards, secure coding practices, and regulatory frameworks
- Skilled in incident management, root cause analysis, automation, and performance tuning.
- Understanding of SLOs/SLAs, system scalability, redundancy, and resilience best practices.