Lead Cloud Security Engineer: IAM, Detection & Automation

Adobe; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 214,000 - 310,000; Full time

Job summary

Adobe is seeking a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to lead the hardening and scaling of cloud infrastructure tooling and secure cloud posture. You will drive initiatives across AWS, Azure, and GCP, develop prototypes, and build tools to address cloud security gaps, while mentoring junior engineers.

You’ll collaborate with teams to improve CI/CD, IaC, and incident response, and help transition security tooling into scalable infrastructure-as-code practices.

Qualifications

• Experience across AWS, Azure and GCP.
• Strong DevSecOps understanding and practices.
• Experience with CloudFormation and/or Terraform; scripting in Python/Go/Ruby.
• Knowledge of orchestration tools (SaltStack, Ansible, Chef, Puppet) and CI/CD (Jenkins).
• Hands-on contributor to evolving cloud security architecture; SDLC automation.

Responsibilities

• Lead efforts to harden cloud security architectures across AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Improve cloud-native threat detection and automate security gaps.
• Develop custom tools/scripts for cloud misconfigurations automated discovery.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to secure CI/CD pipelines and IaC workflows.
• Mentor juniors and help scale security tooling and processes.

Skills

Cloud security architecture

IAM

Threat detection

DevSecOps

Scripting (Python, Go)

Multi-cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Agile/SDLC

Collaboration

CI/CD security

Purple team

IaC

Tools

CloudFormation

Terraform

SaltStack

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Python

Go

Rust

Job description

Adobe is seeking a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to lead the hardening and scaling of cloud infrastructure tooling and secure cloud posture. You will drive initiatives across AWS, Azure, and GCP, develop prototypes, and build tools to address cloud security gaps, while mentoring junior engineers.

You’ll collaborate with teams to improve CI/CD, IaC, and incident response, and help transition security tooling into scalable infrastructure-as-code practices.