Xylem (XYL) is a leading global water technology company committed to developing innovative technology solutions to the world’s water challenges. The Company’s products and services move, treat, analyze, monitor, and return water to the environment in public utility, industrial, residential, and commercial building services settings. With its October 2016 acquisition of Sensus, Xylem added smart metering, network technologies, and advanced data analytics for water, gas, and electric utilities to its portfolio of solutions. The combined Company’s nearly 16,000 employees bring broad applications expertise with a strong focus on identifying comprehensive, sustainable solutions. Headquartered in Rye Brook, New York with 2016 revenue of $3.8 billion, Xylem does business in more than 150 countries through a number of market-leading product brands.

The name Xylem is derived from classical Greek and is the tissue that transports water in plants, highlighting the engineering efficiency of our water-centric business by linking it with the best water transportation of all – that which occurs in nature. For more information, please visit us at

Sensus, a Xylem brand, helps a wide range of public service providers – from utilities to cities to industrial complexes and campuses – do more with their infrastructure to improve quality of life in their communities. We enable our customers to reach farther through the application of technology and data-driven insights that deliver efficiency and responsiveness. We partner with them to anticipate and respond to evolving business needs with innovation in sensing and communications technologies, data analytics, and services. Learn more at sensus.com and follow @SensusGlobal on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

THE ROLE:

Sensus, a Xylem Brand, seeks to hire a Cloud Security Engineer. You should enjoy working with bleeding-edge technology, not be afraid to take a different approach to solving technical problems, and be able to change directions quickly as the business environment moves. If this sounds interesting, and you like working in a start-up environment, then we want to talk with you!

Our Atlanta office is located in the historic Biltmore building, across from Georgia Tech’s campus, walking distance to several great restaurants, and centrally located to the MARTA.

We allow for flexible hours and some telecommuting options, but you should be in office most days.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Secure Cloud Based environments, particularly in AWS
• Perform ongoing, monthly audits of infrastructure for vulnerabilities
• Advise on and preventatively remediate security issues
• Write scripts to aid in testing, debugging, and gather statistics on the servers.
• Work with client companies to ensure their data is properly secured
• Strategic planning and project management

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• BS/MS in computational discipline required. BS/MS in systems engineering is preferred.
• Experience implementing security controls around data and data products
• Experience with build/deployment tools and related environmental artifacts (such as Salt, Chef, Jenkins, Jira, Subversion, and Git)
• Experience in analyzing infrastructure implementations from a security perspective
• Knowledge and experience implementing or integrating general application security APIs and protocols and IDM systems such as Active Directory (AD), LDAP, SAML, OAuth, SSO, etc.
• Knowledge of and experience implementing PKI systems
• Experience with various VPN implementations
• Familiarity with network and security configuration management best practices - SIEM, IPS/IDS, IAM
• Familiarity with Industry compliance standards, e.g HIPAA, NIST
• Experience with security scanning and penetration testing tools (Nessus)
• Strong documentation skills

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience securing and supporting MongoDB, CouchDB, or Cassandra
• Experience securing Java applications and containers in a production environment
• Experience securing RHEL or Centos

EOE/FEMALES/MINORITIES/PROTECTED VETERANS/DISABLED