About Us!
The mission of Housing & Development Board (HDB) is to provide affordable, quality housing and a great living environment where communities thrive. To achieve its mission, HDB aims to be data-driven to the core and adopt evidence-based decision making in developing better housing policies service, improving service delivery and optimising operations.
What Will You Do?
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Cloud Security Specialist to join our dynamic team and play a pivotal role in ensuring the security, integrity, and compliance of our cloud-based systems and applications. As a Cloud Security Specialist, you will work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and maintain robust security measures that protect our organisation's assets and data in cloud environments.
• Cloud Security Strategy: Develop, implement, and maintain an effective cloud security strategy and architectures that adhere to best practices, industry standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Security Architecture: Collaborate with engineering teams to design and implement common cloud security architectures, ensuring principles of least privilege, zero trust, defense in depth, and security by design.
• Infrastructure Security: Implement and manage security controls for cloud infrastructure components, including networks, virtual machines, containers, and serverless services. Apply security groups, network segmentation, and encryption to safeguard data in transit and at rest.
• Identity and Access Management (IAM): Design and enforce robust IAM policies to manage user access, authentication, authorisation, and privilege escalation within cloud environments.
• Security Monitoring and Incident Response: Set up and manage continuous security monitoring, threat detection, and incident response processes for cloud environments. Respond to security incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures.
• Vulnerability Management: Conduct regular vulnerability assessments to identify and remediate security weaknesses. Know how to apply patches and updates in a timely manner.
• Security Compliance: Ensure and assess cloud environments adhere to relevant government ICT/SS compliance frameworks and regulations.
• Security Automation: Build and maintain security automation scripts and tools to streamline security processes such as provisioning, configuration management, and incident response.
You will be a Great Fit if you:
• Have experience (2+ years) in designing, implementing, and managing security solutions in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.).
• Understand cloud security principles, including network security, encryption, identity and access management, and security monitoring.
• Are proficient in security tools such as intrusion detection/prevention systems, SIEM, vulnerability scanners, network firewalls, and web application firewalls.
• Have implemented security best practices within Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible) to ensure secure infrastructure provisioning and configuration management.
Good to Have:
• Relevant professional certifications such as Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), AWS Certified Security – Specialty, or equivalent.
• Proficiency in scripting or programming languages (e.g., Python, PowerShell) for security automation and orchestration.
• Experience in using containerisation technologies, such as Docker, Kubernetes, AWS ECS, and knowledge in securing containers.
• Proficiency in implementing DevSecOps and CI/CD pipelines, with experience in relevant CI technologies such as Git, Gitlab, and Jenkins. Hands-on experience with security testing tools (e.g., SAST, DAST, SCA) and vulnerability management.
Successful candidates will be offered a 1+1 year contract in the first instance. Conversion to perm is dependent on good performance.
Find out more about a career with HDB at www.hdb.gov.sg/cs/infoweb/about-us/careers
Please apply for the job through the Careers@Gov job portal as linked: https://www.careers.hrp.gov.sg/sap/bc/ui5_ui5/sap/ZGERCFA004/index.html#/JobDescription/14041227/0B73DD95-E036-1EEE-9DF7-564434DC60B4
