Job Summary
Cloud security engineer with focus on native cloud security tool management to protect and proactively identify threats and gaps within a multi cloud environment. This will include the security and operational aspects of infrastructure, build pipelines, cloud native service, stakeholder communications, consulting and advisement of peer security teams, and solution review and approval.
Job Description
Essential Responsibilities
- Independently apply security best practices to enhance and optimize systems, ensuring robust protection and efficiency, while beginning to understand and align security solutions with business objectives.
- Partner with peers and internal teams to drive security initiatives, contribute to cross-functional projects, and at times co-lead efforts to strengthen security posture.
- Analyze and resolve security challenges by adapting standard processes and exploring alternative approaches to address complex threats.
- Influence the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of the team through informed decision-making, with a potential impact on other teams.
- Collaborate with other engineers to gather and incorporate feedback, driving continuous improvements in security processes.
Expected Qualifications
- 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
Additional Responsibilities Preferred Qualifications
Top skills required
- Cloud Security knowledge and best practices in GCP, AWS environments.
- Cloud security posture management understanding to provide remediation advisory.
- Cloud security evidence collection and forensics.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like CloudFormation, Terraform, etc.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills
- Hands-on experience with Docker containers in Kubernetes environments
- Collaborative mindset to work along cross-functional teams.
Nice to have skills
- Cloud native security tools management.
- Manage CSPM solution. Preferably Wiz.
- Understanding on vulnerability management on cloud environments (such as CSPM findings, configuration findings, etc.).
- Industry cybersecurity standards (such as PCI, ISO 27000 Family, NIST, CIS, SOC 2, etc.)
- Basic DFIR processes in cloud environments.
- Collaborative mindset.
- Agile methodology knowledge and understanding.
In their day-to-day they will
- Onboarding Cloud accounts (such as Azure, AWS GCP) - this includes access grant, enabling policies, configuring baselines, configuring agents (if applicable), verifying health status
- Administer CSPM solution - this includes managing user roles, audit logs, manage API access
- Discover cloud assets - this includes gaining visibility and manage cloud assets
- Manage Security policies and Benchmarks - this includes configuring CSPs specific security policies, industry specific compliance policies (such as PCI), benchmarks standards (such as CIS, NIST, etc.)
- Respond to alerts - this includes monitor, investigate and triage incidents based on actionable alerts
- Manage OS hardening - this includes administer operating system baseline and hardening
- Integration with 3rd party systems - this includes manage changes, requests on integration with other systems (such as ITSM and CI/CD Tools)
- Remediation guidance - this includes providing recommendations to the stakeholders to fix the potential threats, applying configurations on the systems to maintain IT security regulatory compliance and standards
- Manage reports - this includes providing reports to the business and relevant stakeholders
Subsidiary
PayPal
Travel Percent
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