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Cloud Security Engineer
Austin, TX

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Forcepoint is transforming cybersecurity by focusing on what matters most: understanding people's intent as they interact with critical data and intellectual property wherever it resides. Our uncompromising systems enable companies to empower employees with unobstructed access to confidential data while protecting intellectual property and simplifying compliance. Based in Austin, Texas, Forcepoint supports more than 20,000 organizations worldwide. For more about Forcepoint, visit www.Forcepoint.com and follow us on Twitter at @ForcepointSec.

Cloud Security Engineer

Austin, Texas (Open to remote work )

Benefits include 5 weeks PTO + Tuition Reimbursement

Forcepoint seeks understand the world's cyber behaviors to stop the bad and free the good. We are reinventing cybersecurity with a transformative, behavior-centric approach that provides visibility to human interaction with data, understands the intent behind that interaction, and can dynamically adapt security countermeasures in response. By integrating our best-in-class products into cloud-based security platform, we will enable customers to deploy and operate a modern cybersecurity architecture that meets the challenges of today's digital world.

This Cloud Security Engineer will be a member of our Global Information Security Organization and involved in building, maintaining and supporting public cloud security initiatives. This person will be required to work effectively and seamlessly with Forcepoint's existing security, R&D and cloud operations teams. Our corporate office is located in Austin Texas and are open to remote work.

What will this Cloud Security Engineer be doing?

* Work closely with cloud operations & R&D teams to build AWS public cloud security controls based upon policies and standards
* Assess and understand the current AWS cloud & Forcepoint product security posture; provide recommendations for vulnerability remediation and risk reduction
* Design and implement cloud native application & platform security controls
* Integrate cloud security solutions with the security operations center (SOC)
* Design pipeline capabilities in support of DevSecOps processes
* Perform regular threat models and risk assessments to characterize the risk and severity posture of cloud environments
* Communicate security risks and support incident response/remediation activities
* Document & communicate existing and new cloud security standards

Education and Experience we will be looking for on your resume:

* 3-5 years of experience in information security, preferably in a medium to large software product company
* A bachelor's degree or higher in a technical field such as computer science or equivalent experience
* At least one professional security certifications (CISSP, CEH, GCIH, GCFA)
* Strong experience with AWS native security capabilities (GuardDuty, CloudTrail etc.)
* Both network & host IDS/IPS systems such as security onion/snort/bro, ossec, osquery etc.
* Implementing & maintaining logging, monitoring & security analytics solutions such as Elastic Stack, Splunk etc.
* Implementing & maintaining an enterprise vulnerability management system (Tenable, Qualys etc.)
* Scripting languages such as Python, Bash, Perl, Go etc.
* Building and supporting a DevSecOps environment using tools like Jenkins, Chef, Puppet etc.

About Forcepoint

Forcepoint is transforming cybersecurity by focusing on what matters most: understanding people's intent as they interact with critical data and intellectual property wherever it resides. Our uncompromising systems enable companies to empower employees with unobstructed access to confidential data while protecting intellectual property and simplifying compliance. Based in Austin, Texas, Forcepoint supports more than 20,000 organizations worldwide. For more about Forcepoint, visit www.Forcepoint.com and follow us on Twitter at @ForcepointSec.

We provide competitive compensation, generous benefits and a professional atmosphere. This is a collaborative and inclusive work environment where individuals strong on aptitude and attitude will have an opportunity to grow their professional careers through working with some of the most advanced technology and talented cybersecurity experts in the business.

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