Sr Cybersecurity Engineer

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About the Team

About the Role

The Senior Cybersecurity Engineer (P4) is a key technical leader responsible for defining and driving the strategic direction and implementation of security controls across the organizations infrastructure. This role requires deep technical expertise in infrastructure security and strong coding/automation skills to industrialize compliance and security processes. The Senior Engineer is expected to lead complex projects mentor junior staff and significantly influence security governance decisions.

About You

Responsibilities include:

• Champion the principle of translating security policies directly into testable automated code to ensure non-bypassable compliance.

• Design and execute the roadmap for industrializing and automating security governance compliance verification and control enforcement across the organization.

• Drive the adoption of DevSecOps principles by embedding security controls directly into the CI/CD pipeline and contributing secure reusable modules (e.g. secure Terraform/CloudFormation modules) for engineering teams.

Basic Qualifications:

• 7 years of progressive hands-on experience in engineering with a strong emphasis on security architecture leading complex security initiatives and developing advanced security solutions with 2 years focused on security governance/compliance.

• Extensive and deep hands-on experience architecting implementing and securing infrastructure and services within major cloud service providers (e.g. AWS GCP Azure) at scale.

• Strong proficiency in at least one scripting language (e.g. Python Go Bash Ruby) with the ability to develop automation for security operations configuration management and compliance.

• Expert-level understanding and practical application of cloud security concepts principles architectures and technologies with a proven track record of designing and implementing robust enterprise-grade security controls in complex multi-cloud environments.

• A deep expert-level understanding of network application and platform security including advanced threat landscapes attack vectors and mitigation techniques.

• Proven experience in architecting implementing and evangelizing secure Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices and automation at scale using tools like Terraform CloudFormation etc.

Desired Qualifications:

• Relevant industry certifications (e.g. AWS Certified Security - Specialty Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) or equivalent focused training.

• Proven experience implementing auditing and maintaining controls for major compliance frameworks (NIST CSF ISO 27001).

Professional and Soft Skills:

• Exceptional communication presentation and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and align senior leadership diverse engineering teams and non-technical stakeholders.

• Proven ability to analyze complex technical security problems and propose pragmatic business-enabling solutions.

• Ability to lead technical security initiatives end-to-end from conceptual design through successful implementation.

• Exceptional ability to communicate highly technical security risks and compliance requirements into clear quantitative business terms for executive leadership.

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