Secure the Future with Delinea: Senior Cloud Security Engineer
Ready to be a key player in safeguarding digital identities and revolutionizing cloud security? Delinea, a pioneer in intelligent, centralized authorization, is seeking a passionate and experienced Senior Cloud Security Engineer to join our global team. We empower organizations to seamlessly govern interactions across the modern enterprise, leveraging AI-powered intelligence and a cloud-native Identity Security Platform. If you're driven to push boundaries, challenge the status quo, and make a tangible impact on global security, this is your opportunity.
At Delinea, we're not just building software; we're building trust. We value diversity, innovation, and a culture of respect, supported by strategic investment from TPG. Join us in our mission to make the world a safer place!
The Mission: Your Role as a Senior Cloud Security Engineer
As a Senior Cloud Security Engineer, you will be a critical member of Delinea's Cybersecurity organization, playing a pivotal role in maintaining and maturing our industry-leading Product Security Program. You'll be at the forefront of rolling out, implementing, and driving the maturity of our Product and Cloud Security initiatives.
This fully remote role, reporting to the Sr. Director of Product Security and based in the US, demands a broad understanding of cloud security across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments. We need your hands-on experience in both small and large-scale cloud solution implementations, with a laser focus on security, performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. You should be highly collaborative, customer-service oriented, and adept at driving technical ideas and communicating effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
What You'll Be Doing:
Implement cloud security architecture, methods, and controls required to meet security and compliance requirements.
Design, build, and maintain tools/processes to effectively secure cloud-based environments, ensuring the health, performance, stability, and ongoing planning of cloud and container security platforms.
Deliver cloud security architecture consulting and collaborate with teams to ensure best practices like infrastructure as code, automation, and orchestration are in place.
Solve complex cloud security issues and protect Cloud environments using a risk-based approach.
Evaluate and recommend new and emerging cybersecurity products and technologies with careful documentation of technical requirements and collection of cross-functional requirements.
Stay up to date on the threat landscape, current technologies, security compliance requirements, standards and industry trends in order to help achieve cybersecurity’s goals.
Customize cloud compliance tools to meet operational, compliance, and risk-based needs.
Participate in audits pertaining to Delinea’s cybersecurity processes and best practices.
Develop baseline cloud, container, application, and infrastructure security standards and integrate them into the CI/CD pipeline.
Implement "security as code" using cloud services and CI/CD components as necessary.
Administer and provide day-to-day support for security tools used to secure multi-cloud environments.
Automate operational activities that are part of maintaining cloud security infrastructure.
Respond to and, when appropriate, resolve or escalate security incidents.
What You'll Bring to the Table:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, a related field, or equivalent experience.
8+ years of professional work experience in Cybersecurity, with at least 5 years as a Cloud Security Engineer.
A solid understanding of cloud security technologies including container security, serverless security, network and application security, access management, threat detection, and data protection.
Experience developing and documenting secure design, configurations, and associated procedures.
Strong experience in analyzing, troubleshooting, and providing solutions for technical issues (problem management and issue triage).
Cloud security architecture experience with major cloud providers: Azure, AWS, or GCP.
Hands-on experience with Security Services in Azure, AWS, or GCP such as Azure Security Center, IAM, KMS, VPC, Security Groups, AWS Inspector, GCP Security Command Center.
Knowledge of industry standards and compliance frameworks: ISO, SOC, FedRAMP, NIST.
Experience with the following technologies:
Containers (Docker, Kubernetes, or similar)
Infrastructure as code (Vagrant, Docker, Ansible, Chef, Terraform, or similar)
Continuous integration (Jenkins, Bamboo, Hudson, or similar)
Integration of cybersecurity testing tools into pipeline
Knowledge of all components of a SaaS multi-tenant product architecture
Hands-on experience with using and debugging REST APIs
Experience with the development, deployment, and automation of security solutions in an enterprise cloud-based environment.
Knowledge of network-based, system-level, and application-layer attacks and mitigation methods.
An understanding of identity federation, authentication, and authorization (SAML, OIDC, OAuth).
Ability to determine methods and procedures on new assignments with minimal instruction.
Experience estimating effort and resources required for projects and working with project managers to structure projects.
Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to describe technical security issues in plain language.
Bonus Points:
Significant technical experience in cloud computing technologies and automation.
Familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks, risk management principles, and industry standards (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001, CIS, GDPR).
Ability to develop simple scripts and automation in Python.
Ability to interact with IaaS and SaaS cloud systems via API calls.
Familiarity with SaaS cloud security (e.g., CASB, SCIM, SAML, OIDC).
Familiarity with Linux systems security.
Familiarity with infrastructure as code and immutable infrastructure concepts.
Why Delinea?
Impactful Work: Be a passionate problem-solver, protecting the world's largest organizations by securing their human and machine identities.
Invest in You: We invest in smart, self-motivated, and collaborative individuals.
Growth & Innovation: Meaningful work, a culture of innovation, and excellent career progression opportunities.
Our Core Values: STRONG
Our core values guide our behaviors and success:
Spirited: We bring energy and passion to everything we do
Trust: We act with integrity and deliver on our commitments
Respect: We listen, value different perspectives, and work as one team
Ownership: We take initiative and follow through
Nimble: We adapt quickly in a fast-changing environment
Global: We embrace diverse people and ideas to drive better outcomes
We offer competitive salaries, a meaningful bonus program, and excellent benefits. Delinea is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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Ready to join the Delinea team and secure the future? Apply today!