Senior Cloud Security Automation Engineer

Illumio; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Illumio is seeking a Software Engineer to join the CloudSecure team to deliver enterprise‑grade cloud security at scale. You’ll own quality across a multi-cloud micro‑segmentation platform that protects workloads on AWS, Azure, and GCP—covering the full stack from cloud synchronization to APIs, UI, and large-scale infrastructure.

You will design automation strategies, build scalable testing frameworks, and validate performance under enterprise-scale workloads.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS or equivalent
• Master’s degree a plus
• 3+ years building automation for SaaS or cloud-native distributed systems
• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, JavaScript, or similar
• Hands-on experience with automation frameworks such as Cypress, Playwright, Pytest, or equivalent
• Experience designing automation for APIs, UI, and distributed microservices
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, including networking and security constructs
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar)
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, REST APIs, Kubernetes, and cloud-native architectures
• Ability to debug application code and work closely with developers to identify root causes—not just report failures

Responsibilities

• Product Quality & Automation: design and execute test strategies for CloudSecure features
• Build and maintain scalable API, UI, and end-to-end automation frameworks
• Validate cloud security workflows across AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Partner with engineering and product teams to define acceptance criteria, improve testability, and drive shift-left quality practices
• Own defect triage, root cause analysis, and release readiness for your feature areas
• Quality Engineering & Infrastructure: design large-scale performance tests simulating enterprise environments
• Thousands of workloads, Hundreds of VPCs/VNETs, Millions of flow records
• Build automated performance benchmarks and regression suites to detect latency, throughput, and resource utilization regressions
• Validate system behavior under stress, peak load, and long-running endurance scenarios
• Design and execute chaos engineering experiments including database failovers, Kafka failures and lag, network partitions
• Own quality gates within CI/CD and continuously improve automation reliability
• Drive cross-module integration testing across User Console, CloudSecure services, Policy Compute Engine, and supporting platform services
• Develop tooling that enables developers to self-serve test environments, test data, and automation execution

Skills

Automation for SaaS

Python/Go/JS

Distributed systems

REST APIs

Debugging skills

Education

Bachelor’s in CS or equivalent

Master’s degree a plus

Tools

Cypress

Playwright

Pytest

AWS/Azure/GCP

CI/CD (Jenkins/GitHub Actions)

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Illumio is seeking a Software Engineer to join the CloudSecure team to deliver enterprise‑grade cloud security at scale. You’ll own quality across a multi-cloud micro‑segmentation platform that protects workloads on AWS, Azure, and GCP—covering the full stack from cloud synchronization to APIs, UI, and large-scale infrastructure.

You will design automation strategies, build scalable testing frameworks, and validate performance under enterprise-scale workloads.