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AnaVation LLC

Cloud Security Engineer

san antonio, TX

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About this opportunity

AnaVation LLC lists this Cloud Security Engineer opportunity in san antonio, Texas. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.

Job description

Clearance: U.S. Citizen, current TS/SCI; current CI Polygraph

Be Challenged and Make a Difference

In a world of technology, people make the difference. We believe if we invest in great people, then great things will happen. At AnaVation, we provide unmatched value to our customers and employees through innovative solutions and an engaging culture.

Description of Task to be Performed:

AnaVation is seeking a Cloud Security Engineer to support one of our cybersecurity programs in our San Antonio office. In this position, the right candidate will lead zero trust engineering, interoperability, and modern security capability development across the Government enterprise. The Cloud Security Engineer will manage security systems and tools for cloud technologies, investigate and enhance existing cloud structures, and drives issue identification/resolution, integration, gap assessment, and continuous improvement, while providing flexible reach-back across the Government’s Cyber Assessment Roadmap.

Position Responsibilities:

This position sets the engineering direction for the Government’s zero trust and cloud security modernization, translating roadmap objectives into deployed, measurable capability.

Responsibilities include:

Lead zero trust engineering and interoperability initiatives, future-proofing implementations as tools and requirements evolve

Design, implement, and maintain AWS cloud architecture using Terraform (including custom modules) and Ansible

Administer relevant cloud infrastructure-level consoles (e.g., AWS) and secure cloud services and accounts; apply advanced networking, VPC, peering, and subnet design

Support the SIEM, SOAR, Incident Management System (IMS), and Incident Response Team (IRT) roadmap, engineering, and integration

Architect logging, monitoring, and telemetry, coordinating delivery with the Cyber Security Service Provider (CSSP)

Advance security automation and automated evidence collection to increase inheritance and continuous monitoring maturity

Provide flexible SME support and reach-back across DevSecOps automation, supply chain security, enterprise vulnerability management, and AI

Provide updates to the Cyber Assessment Roadmap; create/maintain documentation and brief technical and non-technical stakeholders

Collaborate with ISSMs, ISSEs, Value Stream engineers, COT, CPT, and Government stakeholders using tools like git.

Support Zero Trust enforcement, cloud security controls, and Infrastructure as Code security across mission environments

Maintain and validate A&A control evidence in eMASS (control implementation, SIAs, SRCs, POA&Ms) supporting continuous monitoring and cATO readiness

Architect and integrate an enterprise SIEM ingesting logs from AWS (VPC, EKS, CloudTrail), Okta, Istio, GitLab, and host logs (systemd, audit), with dashboards for runtime monitoring, defense, and forensics

Enforce Zero Trust through ICAM integration and micro-segmentation validation and manage enterprise security tooling

Required Qualifications:

Clearance: U.S. Citizen, current TS/SCI; current CI Polygraph

Education: Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Cloud Computing, IT, or related technical field

Certification: DoD 8140/8570 IAT Level II and an AWS certification

Location: Full-time on-site in San Antonio, TX

Experience and knowledge: Subject Matter Expert: provides technical and management leadership on major tasks; domain and expert technical knowledge; decisions may have critical project impact; may lead others

Highly experienced with AWS; advanced networking, VPC, peering, and subnet experience

GitLab CI experience; Terraform experience including writing custom modules and collaboration at scale; Ansible experience

Proficient in Linux; SRE experience for a mid-to-large enterprise system.

Designing, implementing, and maintaining AWS cloud architecture; creating/maintaining implementation documentation

Experience supporting RMF, ATO, cATO, and continuous monitoring; SIEM and security automation (familiarity with SOAR/IMS)

Minimum years of experience - 10 years of relevant experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Clearance: Active TS/SCI

Education: Advanced degree in a related technical field

Certification: AWS Certified Security - Specialty, CCSP, CISSP, CKS, or CKA

Experience and Knowledge: General cloud architecture experience with Azure or GCP (a plus, not required); experience with Kubernetes and Docker

Knowledge of SQL databases and coding skills (Java, Python, Go, C++); microservices architectures

Security framework experience (RMF, DISA STIG, CIS Benchmarks); software engineering background

Experience engineering SOAR/IMS and supporting Incident Response Teams (IRT); applying AI/ML to security automation

Experience supporting software factory environments (Iron Bank, Big Bang); IL4/IL5/IL6 cloud environments

Benefits

Generous cost sharing for medical insurance for the employee and dependents

100% company paid dental insurance for employees and dependents

100% company paid long-term and short-term disability insurance

100% company paid vision insurance for employees and dependents

401k plan with generous match and 100% immediate vesting

Competitive Pay

Generous paid leave and holiday package

Tuition and training reimbursement

Life and AD&D Insurance

About AnaVation

AnaVation is the leader in solving the most complex technical challenges for collection and processing in the U.S. Federal Intelligence Community. We are a US owned company headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia. We deliver groundbreaking research with advanced software and systems engineering that provides an information advantage to contribute to the mission and operational success of our customers. We offer complex challenges, a top-notch work environment, and a world-class, collaborative team.

If you want to grow your career and make a difference while doing it, AnaVation is the perfect fit for you!

AnaVation is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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san antonio, TX, 78208, US

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