Cloud Security Engineer

The Aspen Group (TAG) is one of the largest and most trusted retail healthcare business support organizations in the U.S. and has supported over 20,000 healthcare professionals and team members with close to 1,500 health and wellness offices across 48 states in four distinct categories : dental care, urgent care, medical aesthetics, and animal health. Working in partnership with independent practice owners and clinicians, the team is united with a single purpose : to prove that healthcare can be better and smarter for everyone. TAG provides a comprehensive suite of centralized business support services that power the impact of five consumer-facing businesses : Aspen Dental, ClearChoice Dental Implant Centers, WellNow Urgent Care, Chapter Aesthetic Studio, and Lovet. Each brand has access to a deep community of experts, tools and resources to grow their practices, and an unwavering commitment to delivering high-quality consumer healthcare experiences at scale.

As a reflection of our current needs and planned growth we are very pleased to offer a new opportunity to join our dedicated team as a Cloud Security Engineer

Job Description

The Cloud Security Engineer helps architect, deploy and operate a secure cloud application infrastructure that aligns with business needs. The position is responsible for supporting operational innovation and providing security direction to the business to elevate the company's security posture within a cloud computing infrastructure. The cloud security engineer is also expected to possess advanced administrative and troubleshooting skills, and be knowledgeable about architecture, engineering and design principles. The cloud security engineer should be adept at dealing with disparate applications and data systems to maintain the level of rigor required to adhere to business direction. Along with depth of system coverage, the role requires planning and design of policies and maintenance.

In tandem with security leadership, cloud security engineers consistently assess the threat landscape and adapt quickly to protect the business from risk. They must be highly technical and possesses at least 3-5+ years' experience in security and systems administration across a wide variety of cloud infrastructure, including software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS). They are also expected to have a strong work ethic, leverage analytical and critical thinking, and be skillful at meeting change requests at a moment's notice. Because the role often interfaces with other business units, strong listening and communication skills are expected.

Essential Job Duties

• Plan, implement, automate, manage, and monitor cloud security controls.
• Perform assessments of resource architecture and configurations against security baseline
• Provide technical assistance and guidance to product and development teams in complying with security controls and industry best practices.
• Monitor and manage cloud security events and support incident response processes as needed.
• Design and deploy tooling, dashboards, scripts, and automation to enhance cloud security posture, detection, and response.
• Design and deploy tooling, dashboards, scripts, and automation to make adoption of secure configurations desirable for product, application, and development teams.
• Build prototypes and perform proof of concepts to demonstrate value.
• Secure business applications and computing environments across public, private or hybrid cloud infrastructures.
• Protect business applications in compliance with privacy, security, business resiliency and compliance frameworks as defined in corporate policies.
• Deploy strong identity and access management (IDAM) controls across applications and computing environments.
• Assist with development, maintenance and utilization of scripts (e.g., Python, Ruby, etc.) to support custom extract, transform load (ETL) tools with a security focus for data flow.
• Attend regular technical project and implementation meetings, and serve as the security consultant to help guide secure application and infrastructure configurations.
• Actively monitor, assess and recommend tactical and strategic initiatives based on new and emerging threats posing risk to cloud computing environments.
• Manage remediation efforts after security assessment findings outline weaknesses requiring attention.
• Document, formulate and enforce areas of security improvement that balance risk with business operations and do not diminish efficiencies or innovation.
• Assist in maintaining strong oversight with cloud computing vendors and solution providers to safeguard against undue risk presented by external entities. Escalate to security management and business unit leads when points of weakness are discovered.
• Stay apprised of current and proposed security changes impacting regulatory, privacy and security industry best practice guidance. Apply learned knowledge across key lines of business, including products, practices and procedures.
• 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.
• Attend and fully engage in change and project management meetings.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

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Annual Salary Range : $110,000-$120,000 / year, with a generous benefits package that includes paid time off, health, dental, vision, and 401(k) savings plan with match.

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