Cloud Security Automation Engineer
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Cloud Security Automation Engineer designing, implementing, and maintaining security in public cloud environments. Collaborating cross-functionally to drive improvements and ensure best practices in cloud security.
Responsibilities:
- Analyze, design, implement, troubleshoot, and maintain commercial, and cloud-native security solutions across public cloud environments
- Create and maintain automated workflows and integrations to support cloud security controls and the automation platform, primarily using Python
- Identify and define security system requirements for public cloud environments
- Continuously analyze security systems and drive improvements, with a focus on automation and resilience
- Develop, document, and maintain configuration and security standards, technical documentation, and standard operating procedures (SOPs)
- Tune, filter, and customize security systems with Information Security Analysts to reduce noise and improve detection quality
- Serve as a subject matter expert for public cloud security and security automation
- Consult with team members and other groups to solve basic to moderately complex cloud-focused security challenges
- Partner with teams outside of Security (e.g., application, infrastructure, DevOps/Platform) to design secure, automated cloud architectures and guardrail
- Lead and contribute to medium to large security and automation projects
- Build project plans based on requirements analysis and stakeholder input
- Communicate project status, risks, and metrics to leadership
- Support audit, compliance, and regulatory activities, including but not limited to PCI DSS, SOX, and evolving privacy laws
- Provide evidence, explanations, and remediation input for controls related to public cloud security and associated automation
- Participate in incident response activities by reviewing and analyzing security events and incidents
- Use automation (e.g., Python-based tooling and workflows) to enhance speed and consistency of response
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Security, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- Preferable AWS and/or Azure certifications with strong coding and automation skills
- 2+ years of hands-on software development or scripting experience in Python, ideally in security, infrastructure, or DevOps contexts
- Proven experience building, maintaining, and troubleshooting automation (e.g., scripts, services, serverless functions, CI/CD integrations) for cloud or security use cases
- Experience with public cloud platforms such as AWS and/or Azure, including core security services (e.g., IAM, KMS, security groups, logging/monitoring, configuration management)
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools (e.g., CloudFormation, Terraform, ARM/Bicep, Ansible) is preferred
- Experience integrating security tooling and cloud services via APIs and SDKs
- Solid understanding of information security principles, including network security, identity and access management, and secure development practices in cloud environments.
Benefits:
- Work from Home, in-office, or hybrid
- Employee Belonging Groups
- Healthcare: Dental, Medical, and Vision
- Paid Vacation, Volunteer, and Holiday Time Off
- And so much more!
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