vTech Solution
Location
South Carolina | United States
Job description
Scope of The Project:
The MES Core project is a multi-year effort to enable standardized data exchange between numerous internal systems and external data trading partners. MES Core has been in production since 2018 but is continuously expanding to accommodate new systems and evolving business requirements.
Role Summary/Purpose:
The Security Architect Consultant will support the Medicaid Enterprise System Core (MES Core) development and operations teams by designing and deploying secure AWS services in a timely manner. This position requires deep knowledge and experience with AWS tools, capabilities, and resources, with a deep understanding of cloud-based infrastructure resources, monitoring tools, and advanced security controls.
In this role, you will work with architects, developers, testers, business analysts, technical writers, and other team members with varying levels of technical expertise. It is essential that you possess excellent verbal and written communications skills. You must be able to work independently with little supervision, and cooperatively with others in a team environment.
Daily Duties / Responsibilities:
Maintain and manage systems that are highly available, scalable, resilient, and secure on the AWS platform.
Design, implement, manage, and maintain DevSecOps tools to automate operational processes in AWS platform.
Lead and/or contribute to the development, maintenance, and usage of secure deployment infrastructure to meet HIPAA and other regulatory requirements.
Troubleshoot production issues and create root cause analysis report.
Work within an Agile team framework to collaborate with other DevSecOps team members to prioritize and assign work.
Coordinate with other development teams to provide support and manage technical expectations.
Collaborate with architects and developers to design effective and secure solutions.
Collaborate with team to design, implement, automate, maintain, and troubleshoot security controls, governance processes, and compliance support.
Qualifications:
This position requires extensive experience working with software development and deployment tools, and supporting the technical infrastructure for production operations. A thorough knowledge of AWS tools and services are required, along with excellent communications skills and the ability to work in an Agile team environment.
REQUIRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE):
5 years of experience in a DevSecOps role.
3 years of experience in working with core AWS solutions and available services.
1 year of experience working in an Agile team environment
Hands-on advanced experience developing automation using CloudFormation.
3 years of experience in Python Language.
3 years of experience in Linux Shell Scripting.
PREFERRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE):
Deep knowledge on AWS core components (examples: IAM, WAF, API Gateway, ECS, EBS, Glue, EC2, S3, SNS, Lambda, Security groups, VPC, CFT, Route 53, certificate manager, AWS build pipelines and AWS cloud trail).
Experience with cloud security and compliance services
Ability to identify system vulnerabilities and provide solution designs.
Knowledge of operating systems patching.
REQUIRED EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar 4-year technical degree
2 years of relevant work experience may be substituted for 1 year of education
PREFERRED EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS:
AWS CERTIFIED SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT ASSOCIATE/PROFESSIONAL
AWS CERTIFIED DEVOPS ENGINEER ASSOCIATE/PROFESSIONAL
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