Sr Cloud Security Engineer

We’re looking for a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to lead initiatives to improve and scale Adobe’s cloud infrastructure tooling and to ensure secure cloud posture. The role will provide the opportunity to work on a diverse set of projects and will also include development of prototypes and proof-of-concepts. You’ll be working to identify risks across public and private clouds, design solutions, drive initiatives, and build and assess tools to cover the newest features from the major cloud service providers. What you'll Do Lead efforts to analyze and harden cloud security architecture. Conduct thorough reviews of each cloud environment, including architectures across AWS, Azure, and GCP, focusing on identity and access management (IAM), implementations, network segmentation, data protection controls, and the secure configuration of core services to prevent common and advanced attack vectors. Take the lead in improving cloud-native threat detection. Minimize harmful actions by using native cloud security tools and relevant frameworks. Assess modern cloud workloads. Perform deep-dive security assessments of critical cloud workloads, including Kubernetes clusters (EKS, AKS, GKE), CI/CD pipelines, and serverless applications. Develop custom cloud security automation. Build custom tools and scripts to automate the continuous discovery of cloud misconfigurations and security gaps. Carry out collaborative purple team exercises. Secure our cloud environments in software, process, and infrastructure through building security tools. Improve our tools and processes for continuous integration, continuous deployment, automated testing, and release management. Collaborate with teams across the organization to build complex software that interact with multiple systems, processes, and standards Help improve the availability, performance, scalability, and security of Adobe's security tools. Transition Adobe’s security tooling into an infrastructure-as-code model to scale our cloud security Provide security analysis before and at build time across Adobe’s security tooling Keep elevated levels of Security and Compliance with the Adobe Standards Improve our development workflow by assisting in establishing standards and implementing automation Improve our development pipelines so that we can achieve faster and more reliable deploys Train and mentor junior engineers on their projects Meaningfully contribute to Adobe’s cloud logging strategy What you need to succeed Experience with cloud service providers: Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, or Google GCP Good understanding of DevSecOps practices Experience building infrastructure with CloudFormation and/or Terraform, as well as experience with scripting languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, Rust, Go) Knowledge of orchestration tools, (e.g. SaltStack, Ansible, Chef, Puppet) and CI/CD infrastructure (e.g. Jenkins) Serve as a hands-on technical contributor to our evolving architecture Understanding of SDLC and how to automate components of SDLC Knowledge of security infrastructure tools and components; network security; operating system fundamentals; etc. Experience writing user documentation Deep understanding of both software engineering and technical operations Strong understanding of common security concepts that support root-cause analysis to make data-driven decisions on patterns and trends Prior experience working in an agile/agile-like development workflow Success implementing projects that required working with teams across the organization Dependability: Meets commitments, works independently, accepts accountability, handles change, sets personal standards, stays focused under pressure Effective communication skills. 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