Description

Join our team as a Senior Cloud & Security Engineer and lead the design, implementation, and protection of our modern cloud infrastructure. In this role, you'll strengthen security posture, drive best practices, and partner across teams to ensure scalable, resilient solutions. You'll bring deep expertise in cloud platforms and cybersecurity, with a proactive mindset for identifying risks and optimizing performance. If you're passionate about safeguarding systems while enabling innovation, this is your opportunity to make a meaningful impact. Apply today to help us build a secure, future-ready environment.

Position Summary

Join Delta Dental of Missouri as a Cloud and Security Engineer! We're looking for an experienced professional to manage complex technical issues, mentor junior staff, and drive program enhancements. This role will act as a bridge between the security and infrastructure teams. You will also consult with internal stakeholders on emerging projects to ensure solutions are delivered securely. 

Essential Functions and Job Responsibilities

• Technical Engineering / Platform Security

o Develop and maintain secure, resilient enterprise-grade cloud processes in tandem with architects and system engineers, such as zero-trust security architectures, defense-in-depth design patterns, and enforcing least-privilege. 

o Secure business applications and computing environments across public, private or hybrid cloud infrastructures, enabling the business operators to work effectively and safely.

o Deploy strong identity and access management (IDAM) controls across applications and computing environments.

o Assist in the day-to-day implementation, monitoring and operational support of hardware, software, customer applications, managed solutions and service provider relationships. This may include but not be limited to: email gateway, secure web gateway/CASB, DLP, SIEM, Disaster Recovery, and antimalware solutions. 

o Maintain a consistent, secure environment, using or implementing automation where possible. Conduct rigorous oversight of security systems and security configuration administration to reduce risk to enterprise systems and accounts.

• Project and Business Consulting

o Protect business applications in compliance with privacy, security, business resiliency and compliance frameworks as defined in corporate policies.

o Attend regular technical project and implementation meetings, and serve as the security consultant to help guide secure application and infrastructure configurations.

o Assist in the assessment, development, design, and implementation of secure AI tools and technologies across the organization. 

• Incident Response

o Act as a key figure in incident response to track occurrence and resolution, with strict documentation and reporting as well as engagement with security operations and incident response teams.

• Program Management

o Actively monitor, assess and recommend tactical and strategic initiatives based on new and emerging threats posing risk to (cloud computing) environments.

o Manage remediation efforts after security assessment findings outline weaknesses requiring attention. 

o Drive security efficiencies, through automation and adoption of advanced capabilities.

Qualifications

• At least an associate's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field; 

• At least 5-7 years of experience in IT as a practitioner, and at least 2-3 years exposure to Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and/or VMWare.

• Experience managing perimeter security products, such as secure web gateway (SWG) and cloud access security broker (CASB) like Netskope and Zscaler, secure email gateway (SEG) solutions like Microsoft and IronPort, and web application firewall (WAF) like Imperva, F5.

• Experience with data at rest and motion data loss prevention tools (DLP), on endpoints as well as on point products like CASB and SEG.

• Experience with antimalware tools like Windows Defender, CrowdStrike. 

• Experience with vulnerability management platforms like Rapid7, Qualys, Tenable.

• Experience with SIEM platforms like LogRhythm, Rapid7, and managing integrations as well as alerts.

• Expertise with Microsoft Intune, including MAM, conditional access.

• Experience writing technical documentation.

Environment

This position currently functions as a hybrid role working from both home and in-office environments.  Any home office setting must be conducive to all guidelines outlined by the organization. This role operates in a general office environment and may require prolonged periods of sitting and regular use of a computer and standard office equipment. This position also requires attendance at in-person meetings, with frequency determined by management based on departmental or organizational needs.

Physical and Other Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Specific vision abilities require the ability to focus distant and near objects clearly. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, talk, and hear. The employee is frequently required to use hands and arms to handle, feel, and reach as well as operate a personal computer.

Disclaimer

This job description is designed to provide a general overview of the requirements of the job and does not entail a comprehensive listing of all activities, duties, or responsibilities that will be required. The organization reserves the right to modify this job description at any time; including assigning or reassigning job duties at any time.

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