Identify and Recommend Federally Compliant Cloud Solutions for Private Clouds and IaaS or PaaS CSPs -- Uh, What?

Do not be fooled by the title of this opening!

Cloud Administrator / Technical Writer - Remote 

Falcon Engineering and Technologies - Washington, DC

$50 - $60 an hour

We have an immediate need for a Technical Writer with Cyber and Cloud experience (preferably support contracts for the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Location: 100% Remote Focus: U.S. citizen – able to achieve VA High Risk Background Investigation (BI) – prefer a candidate that already has an active VA clearance.

Area of need: Cloud environment, good with tech writing (Developing whitepapers and position papers to capture and communicate complex technological concepts to executive stakeholders)

Job Title: 

Technical Writer - 100% Remote

Job Duties:  

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Reviewing existing Agency infrastructure and security documentation, performing interviews of key personnel, and reviewing technical control implementations of agency authorized cloud environments.
• Develop whitepapers and position papers to capture and communicate complex technological concepts to executive stakeholders.
• Person(s) will be required to document detailed design implementation recommendations to enable our customer to remain in compliance with federal regulations and industry best practices while identifying opportunities to increase visibility and oversight into production system operations in the cloud.
• Working with customer Network Operations Center and Security Operations Center to ensure that required data feeds and views are correlated, centralized, and provide staff with a seamless transition from traditional internal network monitoring to blended monitoring of internal networks, private cloud instances, and CSP leveraged environments. 

  Ideal candidate will possess and demonstrate a high-level of knowledge in the following areas:

• Securing cloud environments, including: public, private, or hybrid cloud services that meet federal guidelines and regulations and NIST Special Publication best practice (e.g. NIST SP 500-292, NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 4)
• Considerable experience writing and developing detailed documentation for technical systems.
• Implementing, assessing, and evidencing NIST 800-53 rev.4 security controls in a cloud environment for the Federal Government
• Designing, implementing, and configuring secure cloud architecture solutions within Cloud Service Provider environments (e.g. AWS, Azure) and within customer private clouds
• Supporting project teams during system design to promote the effective deployment of IT assets to cloud environments in a secure and compliant manner
• Cloud computing infrastructure, application development methodologies, best practices, and available and emergent services in CSP environments to support these functions
• Available cloud security solutions focused on: Data Governance, Risk Management, Endpoint Security, Network Visibility and Advanced Threat Monitoring and Management
• Migration of infrastructure, data and applications out of legacy data centers into cloud environments
• Security requirements applicable to Federal agencies with health care responsibilities (e.g., HIPAA, PCI, FedRAMP, FISMA, SOX, TIC, NIST, etc.)
• Review and assess customer SIEM deployments and required data/security views monitored for internal IT assets for applicability/feasibility in cloud environments
• Developing or assessing metrics and measures to reflect and illustrate the security, effectiveness, and efficiency of leveraged cloud environments

Required skills:

• 4 year degree in Computer Science or a related technical degree (or a minimum of 5 years of progressive IT experience in networking or Cyber Security)
• Experience writing whitepapers and position papers on complex technological concepts. Writing samples may be requested.
• A VA designated High-Risk Background Investigation (BI) clearance preferred, or the ability to obtain such clearance. 

Knowledge of the following preferred:

• Identifying and recommending Federally compliant cloud solutions for private clouds and IaaS or PaaS CSPs.
• Document detailed designs for a Cloud infrastructure based on industry best practices in cloud computing, for an IaaS or PaaS CSP environment.
• At least one industry recognized certification (AWS, Azure, CCSP, CISSP, etc.).
• Experience with CSP log and monitoring solutions (e.g., AWS Cloud Watch, and Azure Monitor)
• Experience with secure network communication techniques and protocols.

Job Type:

Full-time

Salary: 

$50.00 to $60.00 /hour

Experience:

• Azure: 2 years (Required)
• Cloud Computing: 5 years (Required)
• Technical Writing: 2 years (Required)

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Job Location:

• Washington, DC (Preferred)

6 days ago