Lead Information Security Engineer (contract)

Description

Title:Lead Information Security Engineer

Location: Irving, TX

Duration: 30 W, 3 D

Work Engagement: W2

Work Schedule: Hybrid 3 days in office/2 days remote

Benefits on offer for this contract position: Health Insurance, Life insurance, 401K and Voluntary Benefits

Summary:

In this contingent resource assignment, you may: Consult on complex initiatives with broad impact and large-scale planning for Information Security Engineering. Review and analyze complex multi-faceted, larger scale or longer-term Information Security Engineering challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors including intangibles or unprecedented factors. Contribute to the resolution of complex and multi-faceted situations requiring solid understanding of the function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements that meet deliverables. Strategically collaborate and consult with client personnel. Required Qualifications: Information Security Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education.

Key Responsibilities:

• • Leveraging your deep expertise with automation to “semi-automate” Rego Policy as Code development, leveraged to monitor for cloud resource misconfiguration/config. drift.
  • Engineering and support for the migration of CSPM capabilities from Palo Alto Prisma Cloud Enterprise to Wiz.
  • Act as the subject matter expert (SME) for Wiz capabilities, roadmap features, and best practices specific to CSPM.
  • Enable and tune Wiz detection for:
  o Public Cloud mis-configurations
  o Public Cloud config drift
  o Ad-hoc, on demand mis-config. scanning for Developers w/ IDE integration
  
  • Ability to efficiently transform security requirements/parameters into Rego policies for Wiz CSPM.
  • Strong collaboration with direct teammates, vendors and partners, ensuring the success of policy development automation.
  • Lead technical/engineering requirement gathering discussions and effectively design/develop complex solutions.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve support escalation cases related to Wiz CSPM.
  • Contribute to internal code repositories to continuously improve overall code quality for the team.
  • Provide high quality documentation of the delivered solutions.
  • Train other team members on utilizing the PaC semi-automation tooling/approach you establish for our policy development practice
  • Be a motivated self-starter, quick to adapt and stay focused on delivering results in a fast-paced environment with aggressive deadlines.
  • Work effectively with a virtual Team consisting of members across various locations in the U.S. and India.

Key Requirements:

• Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
• Information Security Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• Intermediate to Advanced experience with Terraform/automation
• practical experience and strong understanding of Azure & Google public cloud – platforms, services, configurations, workloads & hardening practices
• experience with Resource Query Language (RQL) and/or Rego policy dev
• Experience with extracting, transforming, and loading data via REST API endpoints
• Advanced experience with Python programming/automation
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Proven ability to work independently, as well as having strong interpersonal skills to work effectively within a Team and with partners
• Strong analytical skills, proven critical thinking capabilities and ability to solve complex problems with minimal direct oversight
• Intermediate to advanced experience working with Microsoft Office products (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook, MS Teams, SharePoint)
• Ability to handle multiple, high priority deliverables concurrently
• Ability to communicate confidentially, professionally, and effectively, in both written and verbal formats, with stakeholders and partners
• 1+ year experience working on teams practicing Agile Scrum or Kanban methodologies