Cloud And Container Security Engineer

Company Description

Experian is the world's leading global information services company.
During life's big moments - from buying a home or a car, to sending a child to college, to growing a business by connecting with new customers - we empower consumers and our clients to manage their data with confidence.
We help individuals to take financial control and access financial services, businesses to make smarter decisions and thrive, lenders to lend more responsibly, and organizations to prevent identity fraud and crime.
We have 20,000 people operating across 44 countries and every day we're investing in new technologies, talented people, and innovation to help all our clients maximize every opportunity.
**Job Description**:
**Primary Responsibilities**:

- Provide input and feedback on cloud/hybrid security architectures.
- Assist in investigation and remediation of security incidents and issues.
- Consult on and provide requirements for critical projects and initiatives.
- Ensure that the company knows as much as possible, as quickly as possible about security incidents.
- Raise the awareness level of cloud security in the enterprise.
- Help drive cloud security practices in IaaS/ PaaS and SaaS implementations.
- Conduct security assessments to identify areas of risk and ensure any gaps are remediated.
- Help governance, compliance, and risk management teams to ensure the system consistently meets the requirements for certification and accreditation.
- Monitors and reports progress, problems and solutions in a timely manner.
Follows through to ensure dollars and time estimates are realized within planned limits.
- Effectively communicates to management and business sponsors the status of projects and issues as they relate to cloud security.
- Provides clear, consistent, regular communication with all project stakeholders at all levels, including presentations to senior management, creating agendas and meeting minutes.
- In-depth research of the latest in cloud security tools, techniques and best practices and technologies to remain at the bleeding edge.
- Create and support KPIs and KRIs that measure risk reduction and progress in cloud over time.
- Develops and mentors junior team members.
- Open to remote/virtual location.
**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor's degree and/or 5+ years of IT work experience is required.
- 2-4 years of experience in Security and/or Cloud roles.
- 1-3 years of experience with container platforms running Docker and Kubernetes services is highly desired.
- Good understanding of container offerings and capabilities within Amazon Web Services, GCP, and/or Microsoft Azure platforms - EKS, ECS, AKS, GKS etc.
- Experience in deployments of container platforms with CI/CD integration.
- Experience with deployment orchestration, automation, and security configuration management (Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, Git, CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible) preferred.
- In-depth knowledge of DevSecOps principles is desired.
- In-depth knowledge of CIS Benchmarks for cloud and container platform configuration best practices is desired.
- Good understanding and have experience with systems automation platforms and technologies.
- Proficiency in different scripting/programming languages such as
- Python, JavaScript, Ruby, C#, PowerShell, YAML is desired.
- Experience with assessment, development, implementation, optimization, and documentation of a comprehensive and broad set of security technologies and processes (secure software development (Application Security), data protection, cryptography, key management, identity and access management (IAM), network security) within SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud environments.
- Working knowledge of common and industry standard cloud-native/cloud-friendly authentication mechanisms (OAuth, OpenID, etc.)
- Experience working with cloud security and governance tools, cloud access security brokers (CASBs), and server virtualization technologies.
Additional Information

Our benefits include: Medical, life and dental insurance, Asociación Solidarista, International Share Save Plan, Flex Work/Work from home, Paid time off, Annual Performance Bonus, Education Reimbursement, Family Bonding, Bereavement Leave, Referral Program, and more.
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