Cloud Security Automation Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in India.

📋 Description

• Analyze, design, implement, troubleshoot, and maintain commercial and cloud-native security solutions across public cloud environments.

• Create and uphold automated workflows and integrations to facilitate cloud security controls and the automation platform, primarily utilizing Python.

• Identify and outline security system requirements for public cloud environments.

• Continuously assess security systems and promote improvements, emphasizing automation and resilience.

• Develop, document, and sustain configuration and security standards, technical documentation, and standard operating procedures (SOPs).

• Collaborate with Information Security Analysts to tune, filter, and customize security systems to minimize noise and enhance detection quality.

• Act as a subject matter expert in public cloud security and security automation.

• Consult with team members and other departments to resolve basic to moderately complex cloud-focused security issues.

• Collaborate with teams outside of Security (e.g., application, infrastructure, DevOps/Platform) to design secure, automated cloud architectures and guardrails.

• Lead and contribute to medium to large security and automation initiatives.

• Create project plans based on requirement analysis and stakeholder feedback.

• 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 its associated automation.

• Engage in incident response activities by reviewing and analyzing security events and incidents.

• Utilize automation (e.g., Python-based tooling and workflows) to improve the speed and consistency of responses.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Security, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

• Preferred AWS and/or Azure certifications with strong coding and automation capabilities.

• Minimum of 2 years of hands-on software development or scripting experience in Python, ideally within security, infrastructure, or DevOps environments.

• Demonstrated experience in building, maintaining, and troubleshooting automation (e.g., scripts, services, serverless functions, CI/CD integrations) for cloud or security applications.

• Familiarity with public cloud platforms such as AWS and/or Azure, including core security services (e.g., IAM, KMS, security groups, logging/monitoring, configuration management).

• Preferred familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools (e.g., CloudFormation, Terraform, ARM/Bicep, Ansible).

• Experience in integrating security tools and cloud services through APIs and SDKs.

• Strong 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 options available.

• Employee Belonging Groups.

• Healthcare benefits including Dental, Medical, and Vision coverage.

• Paid Vacation, Volunteer, and Holiday Time Off.

• And so much more!