Principal Software Devops Engineer

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned

In general, the following responsibilities apply for the Principal Cloud Security Engineer role. This includes, but is not limited to the following:

• Security Tool Integration & Enablement
  • Drive the strategic selection, integration, and lifecycle management of application, artifact, and infrastructure security tools (e. g. , Contrast, SonarQube, JFrog Xray, CloudGuard, Wi, etc) within enterprise CI/CD pipelines and cloud platforms.
  • Establish organization-wide standards, reusable automation frameworks, and golden patterns to ensure scalable, consistent, and secure adoption of security tools across diverse engineering teams.
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives with developers, cloud engineers, and DevOps teams to optimize security tooling usability and alignment with evolving workflows and business objectives.
• Automation & Process Development
  • Design and automate onboarding, configuration, and reporting for application and infrastructure security tools.
  • Contribute to standardized workflows and champion best practices for vulnerability management (detection, triage, and remediation) at both application and infrastructure levels.
  • Integrate and optimize security findings into enterprise developer and operational workflows (issue trackers, dashboards, alerting systems), ensuring actionable insights and measurable risk reduction.
• Cloud & Infrastructure Security Engineering
  • Set technical direction and provide guidance on cloud and infrastructure security engineering practices to safeguard code, dependencies, artifacts, and deployed workloads at scale.
  • Lead and influence enterprise-wide container, supply chain, and infrastructure security initiatives by designing and enforcing robust guardrails, automation, and governance models.
  • Leverage infrastructure security platforms (e. g. , CloudGuard, Wiz, or equivalents) to provide actionable visibility and enforce cloud security policies.

• Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing
  • Serve as a key security thought leader and trusted adviso r to engineering leadership, hands-on enabler for engineering teams, shaping the security enablement vision, roadmap, and organizational priorities.
  • Foster strong partnerships with product security, DevEx, operations, and compliance teams to align enablement with compliance and risk goals.
  • Promote a culture of security through knowledge sharing, technical leadership, and mentoring of engineers at all levels; drive internal security communities of practice and represent the organization in external forums as appropriate.

Required Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field.
• 10+ years of experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, or security engineering roles, with a demonstrated track record of technical leadership and delivery of large-scale cloud security initiatives.
• Proven leadership in designing, architecting, and implementing secure cloud solutions across complex, multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc. ).
• Extensive hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines ( GitHub Actions, GitHub, Azure DevOps, etc . ), including designing and establishing enterprise-wide CI/CD best practices and frameworks.
• Deep working knowledge of application and artifact security tools ( SonarQube, JFrog Xray, Contrast Security, etc . ), including evaluating, selecting, and integrating new security technologies at scale.
• Experience leading adoption and integration of infrastructure security platforms ( CloudGuard, Wiz, Orca, or equivalent ), as well as logging and observability tooling (ELK, Dynatrace, etc . ) across multiple teams or business units.
• Demonstrated experience in automating onboarding, configuration, and reporting for application and infrastructure security tools at an enterprise scale.
• Advanced proficiency in automation and scripting (Python, Go, or equivalent) , including setting coding standards and mentoring others.
• Expert-level understanding of cloud environments (AWS), including security best practices, risk management, and compliance.

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