CompuGain is an Information Technology and Business Consulting firm providing project-based solutions, software solutions and professional staffing services. Job Description CompuGain is looking for an Information Security Engineer for a contract opportunity with one of it s direct clients in Bethesda, MD.This is a senior level role and candidate must be able to work independently in the long run. There will be initial training on the new tools. Please note that this is a contract to hire opportunity and candidates must be able to convert into full-time without any sponsorship in the future. Description Job Information The Security Engineer is responsible for hands-on design, engineer, configure and integrate system security solutions that provide confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, and non-repudiation to meet stated security control objectives. Key Job Functions Work closely with security architects to understand goals, determine security requirements, to design, and implement application and data security solutions to meet business objectives, IT strategic initiatives, corporate and regulatory requirements. Coordinate with infrastructure and application development project teams to deliver solutions collaboratively, ensuring that corporate security policy, standards and industry best practices are met. Drive the selection, POC, implementation and operational deployment of new security technology solutions to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of business data Develop disaster recovery and continuity of operations plans for new security systems under integration, and ensure testing prior to systems entering a production environment. Deploy and configure technology, partnering with IT Infrastructure teams and vendor product professional service partners. Stay current with developing technologies, emerging threat landscape and predict impact of changing technologies. Coordinate with IT Operations team for the production readiness of security infrastructure solutions supporting mission critical production environments and applications. Other duties as assigned. QUALIFICATIONS Education Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cyber Security or a related technical field. Minimum Experience Minimum 3 years of experience Specialized Knowledge Skills Exposure in defining security solutions for multi-tier cloud based application on AWS (S3, EC2, ELB, SubnetAZ, IAM, KMS, CloudWatch) preferred. Experience with one or more the security tools listed below Authentication and roles based access control (AD, ADFS, SAML) Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Privileged Account Management (PAM) Password Vaulting Multifactor authentication Firewalls Platform Security (RHEL, Windows, Database) Preferred Skills Experience with Venafi and Terra Cloud. Thanks and Regards, Madhu Manohar I Compugain P 703-520-1726 E