Cybersecurity Analyst IV

Position Overview:

We are seeking a highly skilled Cybersecurity Analyst IV Fortune 200 Energy partner. This role will be responsible managing, securing, and monitoring cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI) to identify and remediate risks, vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations. Leverage expertise in Wiz’s CNAPP capabilities to analyze "toxic combinations" of risk, ensuring compliance, and accelerating remediation efforts.

Key Responsibilities:

• Wiz Operations: Configure, maintain, and optimize Wiz security policies, rules, and alert settings to reduce noise.
• Risk Analysis & Remediation: Monitor and prioritize Wiz findings regarding vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and identity risks.
• CI/CD: Comprehension of Cloud deployments through infrastructure as code and familiar with security stacks for repository and orchestration solutions.
• Incident Response: Investigate real-world attacks, perform threat hunting, and assist in development of playbooks for cloud workloads. Familiarity with the Mitre ATT&CK framework will be beneficial.
• Collaboration: Partner with engineering teams to implement secure, compliant cloud configurations (NIST, CIS benchmark, Cloud Native).
• Tool / Metric Development: Create automated solutions, detection mechanisms, and custom scripts (CNAPP query, JSON)) as needed, and create customized metrics reporting to track progress and trends for noted risks and issues in the cloud environment.

Required Qualifications:

• Deep, hands-on experience with Wiz (CNAPP)
• Proven experience implementing, configuring, tuning, and operationalizing Wiz in an enterprise cloud environment
• Extensive experience securing cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP)
• In-depth knowledge of cloud-native architectures, workloads, and shared responsibility models
• Experience applying NIST, CIS Benchmarks, and Cloud Security best practices in real-world environments
• Demonstrated ability to assess, prioritize, and remediate cloud security risks, including vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and identity-related risks
• Strong understanding of cloud deployments via Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM, etc.)

Logistics:

• 12-month W2 Contract with potential for extension or conversion
• Hyrbid: Charlotte, NC (Open to Remote)
• Compensation: $73/hr
• W2 Only - We are unable to provide sponsorship currently (US Citizen & GC holder only)

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