The Role:
Do you have a passion for securing cloud-native environments? Are you interested in creating and defining industry-leading standards and patterns? Would you like the opportunity to work with a world class engineering team, to train, mentor, and grow a security oriented development culture? Outreach’s needs Sr. Cloud Security Engineers who can work with our product and site reliability engineering teams to secure our public cloud environment and infrastructure.
The ideal candidate has the skills of a site reliability engineer, with a background in security and a deep understanding of cloud security principles and tools. This is a role focused on building, rather than breaking -- instead of penetration testing and security review, this role focuses on operating and maintaining capabilities like cloud security posture management, web application firewalls, and API security gateways, and using those capabilities to identify vulnerabilities in our environment and drive remediation and security improvements. The ideal candidate will take ownership of the ongoing improvement of the processes and technical security controls used by our engineering teams, building and implementing new capabilities in partnership with product engineering.
Starting day one, you will be working with engineering partners from across our organization, and at times, directly with our customers. You will help train and collaborate with PMs and engineers on cloud security and the remediation of security vulnerabilities.
The primary focus areas for this position are:Technical Fluency - A passion for security and technology, familiarity with DevOps methodology and containers, public cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, and GCP), CSPM tools and other cloud security solutions, and microservice architectures.
Advisory Skills - Giving direction, advice and support that helps grow the technical and collaboration skills of the individuals and teams with which they engage.
Execution - Planning, coordination, managing dependencies and risks, diving deep when issues arise. Ability to work with people and drive a program to completion is a must.