Sr Cloud Security Engineer

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

We’re looking for a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to lead initiatives to improve and scale Adobe’s cloud infrastructure tooling and to ensure secure cloud posture.

The role will provide the opportunity to work on a diverse set of projects and will also include development of prototypes and proof-of-concepts. You’ll be working to identify risks across public and private clouds, design solutions, drive initiatives, and build and assess tools to cover the newest features from the major cloud service providers.

What you’ll Do

• Lead efforts to analyze and harden cloud security architecture. Conduct thorough reviews of each cloud environment, including architectures across AWS, Azure, and GCP, focusing on identity and access management (IAM), implementations, network segmentation, data protection controls, and the secure configuration of core services to prevent common and advanced attack vectors.
• Take the lead in improving cloud-native threat detection.
• Minimize harmful actions by using native cloud security tools and relevant frameworks.
• Assess modern cloud workloads. Perform deep-dive security assessments of critical cloud workloads, including Kubernetes clusters (EKS, AKS, GKE), CI/CD pipelines, and serverless applications.
• Develop custom cloud security automation. Build custom tools and scripts to automate the continuous discovery of cloud misconfigurations and security gaps.
• Carry out collaborative purple team exercises.
• Secure our cloud environments in software, process, and infrastructure through building security tools.
• Improve our tools and processes for continuous integration, continuous deployment, automated testing, and release management.
• Collaborate with teams across the organization to build complex software that interact with multiple systems, processes, and standards
• Help improve the availability, performance, scalability, and security of Adobe’s security tools.
• Transition Adobe’s security tooling into an infrastructure-as-code model to scale our cloud security
• Provide security analysis before and at build time across Adobe’s security tooling
• Keep elevated levels of Security and Compliance with the Adobe Standards
• Improve our development workflow by assisting in establishing standards and implementing automation
• Improve our development pipelines so that we can achieve faster and more reliable deploys
• Train and mentor junior engineers on their projects
• Meaningfully contribute to Adobe’s cloud logging strategy

What you need to succeed

• Experience with cloud service providers: Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, or Google GCP
• Good understanding of DevSecOps practices
• Experience building infrastructure with CloudFormation and/or Terraform, as well as experience with scripting languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, Rust, Go)
• Knowledge of orchestration tools, (e.g. SaltStack, Ansible, Chef, Puppet) and CI/CD infrastructure (e.g. Jenkins)
• Serve as a hands-on technical contributor to our evolving architecture
• Understanding of SDLC and how to automate components of SDLC
• Knowledge of security infrastructure tools and components; network security; operating system fundamentals; etc.
• Experience writing user documentation
• Deep understanding of both software engineering and technical operations
• Strong understanding of common security concepts that support root-cause analysis to make data-driven decisions on patterns and trends
• Prior experience working in an agile/agile-like development workflow
• Success implementing projects that required working with teams across the organization
• Dependability: Meets commitments, works independently, accepts accountability, handles change, sets personal standards, stays focused under pressure
• Effective communication skills.
• Align with Adobe’s values: Genuine, Exceptional, Innovative, and Involved.

About Adobe

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe’s industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.

Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours.

Let’s Adobe together

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Expected Pay Range

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this positionis $168,200 - $310,100 annually. Paywithin this range varies by work locationand may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills,and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.In California, the pay range for this position is $214,100 - $310,100In Washington, the pay range for this position is $194,000 - $281,000

At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).

In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

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