Posture Management Engineers

Posture Management Engineer

Location: Phoenix, AZ, Charlotte, NC, Dallas, TX

Hybrid 3x/week

Contract Length: 6+ months

Rate: $69-73/hr

Top Requirements:

• 5+ years of Information Security Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 4+ years of Intermediate to Advanced experience with Terraform/automation
• 2+ years of practical experience and strong understanding of Azure & Google public cloud - platforms, services, configurations, workloads & hardening practices
• 1+ year of 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)

Plusses:

• 1+ year of deep Wiz experience, in either an engineering or support role
• Advanced experience with Rego policy automation
• Knowledge and understanding of DevSecOps and deployment automation to cloud environments
• Expertise and experience with API driven automation of policy creation
• Expertise and experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and/or Policy as Code (PaC) concepts/tools

Job Summary:

This manager is looking for a Posture Management Engineer to join their Cloud Workload Lifecycle Security (CWLS) team, within the Cybersecurity - Vulnerability & Patch Management organization. The Posture Management Engineer will support the migration from Prisma Cloud Enterprise to the Wiz CNAPP (Cloud Native Application Protection Platform) tool, with specific focus on Cloud Security Posture Management or the CSPM module of the Wiz product. This area of our team specializes in engineering and support for Public Cloud mis-configuration and configuration drift detective scanning and the associated integrations to partner systems for logging, delivery of Findings, etc.

Day-to-Day 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:
• Public Cloud misconfigurations
• Public Cloud config drift
• Ad-hoc, on-demand misconfiguration. 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.

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Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process.

Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.

Employee Type: Contract

Location: Chandler, AZ, US

Pay Range:

$69 - $74 per hour