Director, Cloud Security Automation & Engg.

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The role: Director Cloud Security Automation & Engineering

We are hiring a Director Cloud Security Automation and Engineering to lead the team that builds and operates the controls securing our cloud and container estate. This is a hands-on technical role: you will set multi-year strategy own the engineering roadmap and work with a team of security engineers and technical leads while staying close enough to the technology to review a cluster hardening design an admission-control policy or a Terraform module.

Container and Kubernetes security is the anchor domain of this role and its most visible program. Our container footprint is expanding across every division of the firm and the Director owns the strategy tooling and operational posture that keeps it safe. Around that anchor the team also owns cloud security automation broadly infrastructure-as-code guardrails security-as-code frameworks self-service platforms that let engineering teams do the right thing by default and the automation fabric that turns detections into resolved findings without human toil.

You will partner at the executive level with divisional BISOs platform engineering leadership DevOps GRC and the SOC and lead the enterprise-wide rollout of container runtime security tooling (including the Wiz Runtime Sensor) across every division.

Lead the Container and Kubernetes Security Program

• Own the enterprise container and Kubernetes security strategy across managed clusters (EKS AKS GKE) cluster hardening baselines against CIS benchmarks admission-control frameworks (OPA/Gatekeeper or Kyverno) workload identity patterns (IRSA Workload Identity Federation Azure AD Workload Identity) and service-to-service auth standards.
• Lead the enterprise-wide deployment and lifecycle management of the Wiz Runtime Sensor across the container estate coverage strategy sensor rollout patterns performance and stability tuning integration with the SIEM and integration of runtime findings into vulnerability and detection workflows.
• Direct the enterprise rollout of container runtime scanning and reporting by partnering with all divisional stakeholders engineering leadership platform owners application teams compliance and audit to agree onboarding criteria remediation SLAs and divisional scorecards for coverage and posture.
• Set the direction for container supply-chain security: base-image strategy image signing and verification (Sigstore/cosign) SBOM generation SLSA-aligned build attestations and admission-time enforcement.
• Own container and cluster incident response readiness; ensure detections mapped to MITRE ATT&CK for Containers are live tuned and rehearsed with the SOC.
  

Cloud Security Automation and Engineering

• Set the strategy and roadmap for security automation across the cloud estate reducing manual toil in detection triage remediation exception handling and compliance evidence collection.
• Own the infrastructure-as-code security program: Terraform Helm Kustomize Bicep and CloudFormation guardrails via policy-as-code (OPA/Conftest Sentinel) enforced in CI/CD; reusable secure-by-default modules for high-risk primitives (IAM KMS VPC cluster provisioning).
• Direct the build-out of self-service security platforms that let engineering teams adopt secure patterns without a security ticket paved roads over gates guardrails over reviews.
• Own the engineering relationship with our CNAPP and cloud-security tooling vendors (Wiz and adjacent platforms) including capability roadmap escalations and commercial reviews in partnership with sourcing.

Required Skills

• 12 years in security engineering with progressive leadership responsibility; 3 years leading and managing security engineering teams
• A track record of owning container and Kubernetes security as a named program architecture tooling selection cross-org rollout
• Deep current knowledge of Kubernetes internals and its security surface: API server RBAC admission chain CRI/CNI/CSI kubelet workload identity and the operational implications of each.
• Demonstrated experience selecting deploying and operating a CNAPP or Kubernetes-native security platform at enterprise scale; hands-on experience with Wiz including Wiz Runtime Sensor deployment across a large container estate is strongly preferred with Prisma Cloud Aqua Sysdig or Orca considered as adjacent experience.
• Strong background in security automation and infrastructure-as-code Terraform policy-as-code (OPA Sentinel Kyverno) CI/CD security integration with concrete examples of programs you have shipped.
• Experience leading enterprise-wide rollouts across many independent divisions or business units including divisional stakeholder management and executive-level reporting.
• Fluency across at least two major cloud providers (AWS Azure GCP) with credible depth in one.
• Executive communication skills you can move from a cluster shell to a BISO/CISO briefing and be equally credible in both.

Nice to Have

• Regulated-industry background (financial services healthcare public sector) with familiarity with the associated control frameworks (SOC 2 PCI-DSS NIST 800-53 ISO 27001) and regulators (SEC IOSCO ESMA or equivalents).
• Experience with GitOps delivery (Argo CD Flux) service mesh security (Istio Linkerd Cilium) and eBPF-based tooling.
• Supply-chain security depth: Sigstore SLSA in-toto build-system hardening (GitHub Actions GitLab CI or Jenkins).
• Certifications such as CKS CCSK CCSP or CISSP valued as signal not as a gate.
• Contributions to relevant open-source projects (Kubernetes OPA Kyverno Falco Sigstore Trivy or similar).

Whats In It For You

Our Mission:

Advancing Essential Intelligence.

Our People:

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Our Values:
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Throughout our history the worlds leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do bring a spirit of discovery to our work and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.

Benefits:

We take care of you so you cantake care of business. We care about our people. Thats why we provide everything youand your careerneed to thrive at S&P Global.

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• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.

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• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.

• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay retirement planning a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution and financial wellness programs.

• Family Friendly Perks: Its not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones too with some best-in class benefits for families.

• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awardssmall perks can make a big difference.

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