Staff Cloud Security Engineer

About Delinea:
Delinea is a pioneer in securing human and machine identities through intelligent, centralized authorization, empowering organizations to seamlessly govern their interactions across the modern enterprise. Leveraging AI-powered intelligence, Delinea’s leading cloud-native Identity Security Platform applies context throughout the entire identity lifecycle – across cloud and traditional infrastructure, data, SaaS applications, and AI. It is the only platform that enables you to discover all identities – including workforce, IT administrator, developers, and machines – assign appropriate access levels, detect irregularities, and respond to threats in real-time. With deployment in weeks, not months, 90% fewer resources to manage than the nearest competitor, and a 99.995% uptime, Delinea delivers robust security and operational efficiency without compromise. Learn more about Delinea on Delinea.com, LinkedIn, X, and YouTube.

Join our passionate, global team at Delinea and help us make the world a safer and more secure place. Our success is driven by world-class product leadership, outstanding engineers, and strategic investment from TPG. We value diversity, innovation, and a culture of respect and fairness. If you're ready to push boundaries and challenge the status quo in security, we want to hear from you.

Apply today to help us achieve our mission.

Summary:

Delinea’s Cybersecurity organization is seeking an experienced Staff Cloud Security Engineer to play a key role in driving and maturing an industry-leading Product Security Program. This critical role is expected to be a key player in defining the roadmap, implementing, and maturing Cloud Security initiatives.

The ideal candidate will have broad experience in cloud security across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments. They will possess hands-on experience in small and large-scale Cloud solutions implementations with an emphasis on security, performance, scalability, and cost. They will be highly collaborative, customer-service oriented, and comfortable with driving technical ideas and communicating clearly with technical as well as non-technical audiences. They must be able to discuss infrastructure and application security, participate in security audits, and aid in responding to customer security inquiries. Additional responsibilities include implementing organizational policies and standards for cloud security and partnering with other teams to integrate cloud security best practices

This role reports to the Sr. Director of Product Security, is based in the US, and is fully remote.

What You'll Do:

• 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. Maintain the health, performance, stability, tuning and ongoing planning of cloud and container security platforms.

• Deliver secure cloud design and consulting, and work 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.

• Evaluates 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.

• Work on key areas to develop baseline cloud, container, application, and infrastructure security standards and integrate into the CI/CD pipeline.

• Implement "security as code" using cloud services and CI/CD components as necessary.

• Administration and day-to-day support of 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:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, similar related field, or equivalent experience

• 10+ years of professional work experience in Cybersecurity with a minimum of 7 years as a Cloud Security Architect or Engineer

• A solid understanding of cloud security technologies including container security, serverless security, network and application security, access management, threat detection, and data protection.

• Experiencing 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 in the following technologies:

o Containers (Docker, Kubernetes, or similar)

o Infrastructure as code (Vagrant, Docker, Ansible, Chef, Terraform, or similar)

o Continuous integration (Jenkins, Bamboo, Hudson, or similar)

o Integration of cybersecurity testing tools into pipeline

o Knowledge of all components of a SaaS multi-tenant product architecture

o 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 communications skills both verbal and written with the ability to describe technical security issues in plain language

We'd Love to See:

• 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.

• Cybersecurity certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CISA, ISSAP, ISSEP, GCSA, CCSP, GCLD or similar)

Why work at Delinea?

• We're passionate problem-solvers helping the world's largest organizations protect what matters most: their human and machine identities.

• We invest in people who are smart, self-motivated, and collaborative.

• What we offer in return is meaningful work, a culture of innovation and great career progression.

At Delinea, our core values are STRONG and 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 believe weaving these core values into our day-to-day actions, and our process for hiring, evaluating, and promoting employees, helps us cultivate a work environment that embraces collaboration and camaraderie.

We take care of our employees. We offer competitive salaries, a meaningful bonus program, and excellent benefits, including healthcare insurance, as well as pension/retirement matching, comprehensive life insurance, an employee assistance program, time off plans, and paid company holidays.

Delinea is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type with regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Upon conditional offer of employment, candidates are required to complete comprehensive criminal background check, verification of education, and verification of employment, per employment policy. In addition, all publicly posted social media sites may be reviewed.