Cloud Security Engineer-1

Job Description

The Associate Director Product Security Platform Engineering plays a critical role in integrating security controls across cloud environments application developer ecosystems and corporate infrastructure ensuring scalable resilient securebydesign architectures.

This leader will partner closely with Cloud DevOps Global Technology IT Risk Management & Security and global engineering teams to strengthen our security posture across multicloud and hybrid enterprise environments.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Engineering & Cloud Security Leadership

• Lead the design engineering and scaling of enterprise product security platforms.

• Ensure cloudnative security patterns are deeply integrated across AWS Azure etc environments.

• Conduct technology research to evaluate emerging threats vulnerabilities and cloud provider risks.

• Establish and maintain secure architecture standards configuration baselines and best practices for cloud and product security platforms.

• Drive modernization and automation of security workflows with a DevSecOps mindset.

Security Architecture Governance & Strategy

• Translate enterprise security strategy and policy into actionable architecture platform capabilities and engineering implementations.

• Define security requirements and enable collaborative development of scalable system and service architectures.

• Collaborate on cloud security governance data protection strategy and secure adoption frameworks.

• Guide platform teams and developers to close gaps in cloud posture application security and data protection maturity.

Risk Management Assessments & Compliance

• Perform Security Assessments using frameworks such as CSA NIST PCI and internal controls.

• Ensure compliance with enterprise risk standards policies regulatory expectations and audit requirements.

• Review cloud services and recommend secure implementation patterns with appropriate monitoring and guardrails.

• Conduct investigative research and analysis of complex security issues including threat modeling and vulnerability analysis.

Technical Engineering & Automation

• Write code scripts and automation to enhance security tooling dashboards integrations and workflows.

• Develop new tools and technologies for Cloud Security and platform security engineering.

• Tune and enhance existing Information Security tools platforms and detection engines.

CrossFunctional Collaboration & Leadership

• Serve as a technical leader on cloud and cybersecurity matters for engineering cloud COE and DevOps teams.

• Act as a consultant to product teams to ensure new products and cloud services are deployed securely.

• Participate in enterprise architecture forums and influence longterm cloud and security architecture direction.

• Engage nontechnical stakeholders effectively translating technical risks into businessaligned decisions.

• Mentor team members and serve as an escalation point on complex or unusual issues.

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelors degree in computer science Engineering Information Systems Security or equivalent professional experience.

Required Experience & Skills

• 8 years in Information Security Cybersecurity or IT roles with increasing complexity and accountability.

• Experience integrating security into CI/CD pipelines and cloud environments.

• Strong business acumen in risk management operations and emerging technology trends.

Preferred Experience & Skills

• Extensive security engineering experience across IaaS PaaS and SaaS environments.

• Knowledge of data protection for structured and unstructured data using classificationbased controls.

• Experience in vulnerability management configuration assessment and threat analysis.

• Familiarity with adversary tactics indicators of compromise and emerging cyber threat research.

• Background with automation patch management secure configuration and applying security standards across many platforms.

• Experience designing cloudnative architectures and security patterns for large enterprises.

• Strong understanding of networking infrastructure firewalls antimalware and endpoint security.

• Experience building security architectures aligned to enterprise frameworks (NIST CSF CSA ISO27001 etc.).

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