Cloud SRE & Security Engineer: Data Privacy & Risk

Alibaba Cloud; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 104,000 - 171,000; Full time

Job summary

Alibaba Cloud’s International Cloud Product Security Team safeguards the secure operation of the cloud platform and protects customer data and business integrity across borders.

In this role you will lead data compliance efforts, perform risk analyses, and work with product and engineering teams to implement intelligent risk-control solutions that strengthen security across production and office environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field; 3+ years of experience in cloud computing or distributed systems operations / SRE.
• Solid TCP/IP troubleshooting skills; able to diagnose issues such as network unreachability, timeouts, and authentication failures.
• Familiar with MySQL, Redis, and Kafka; proficient in writing operations scripts in Python, Go, or Shell and reading logs/SQL to locate problems.
• Understand principles like least privilege, key/certificate management, and security baseline hardening; strong security mindset and confidentiality.
• Strong service orientation and communication skills; able to work with intelligent tools and to collaborate across time zones.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for Alibaba Cloud's data compliance operations, including cross-border data transfer and privacy data compliance; handle third-party data compliance certifications and audits, and provide data compliance consulting to customers.
• Responsible for data security policy management, risk operations, early-warning operations, emergency response, and incident handling across Alibaba Cloud's production and office environments.
• Be sensitive to risk: conduct risk analysis around accounts, transactions, and marketing campaigns; use data analytics to map clue relationships and pinpoint business pain points; build a risk governance strategy system for on-cloud business security.
• Leverage techniques such as feature engineering, machine learning, and NLP to produce risk-control strategies, models, and intelligent agents; collaborate with product and engineering to upgrade risk-control systems.

Skills

Data security awareness

TCP/IP troubleshooting

SRE / Cloud ops

Communication skills

Risk analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

MySQL

Redis

Kafka

Job description

Alibaba Cloud’s International Cloud Product Security Team safeguards the secure operation of the cloud platform and protects customer data and business integrity across borders.

In this role you will lead data compliance efforts, perform risk analyses, and work with product and engineering teams to implement intelligent risk-control solutions that strengthen security across production and office environments.