Principal Cloud Security Analyst
Dallas, TX, US, 75254
Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits
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Overview
The Principal Cloud Security Analyst role is responsible for ensuring the security and improvement of the cloud infrastructure, applications, and data. This role will continuously monitor changes to existing cloud infrastructure to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of cloud resources while identifying vulnerabilities and mitigating risk. This role will work closely with cross-functional teams to embed security into cloud projects and address security challenges.
Specialized Skills and Technologies
- Experience with Azure, AWS and GCP
- Solid knowledge of current and emerging technologies
- Proficient in monitoring tools, access control and threat detection
- Willingness to mentor, train, and share knowledge with peers
- Deep understanding of security frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, etc.
- An understanding of practices integrating security into the continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline.
- Knowledge of containerization technologies, such as Dockers and/or Kubernetes, and how to secure applications within those environments
- Able to perform incident response within cloud platforms
- Ability and desire to lead combined with the flexibility to share the duties of the technical team
Primary Responsibilities
- Conducts assessments of all major cloud environments to identify vulnerabilities and security risks
- Makes recommendations on where improvements can be made to continue strengthening our security posture
- Works with outside teams to develop cloud-specific security policies, procedures, and standards
- Responsible for monitoring and responding to security events related to cloud environments
- Implement a lessons-learned process for continuous improvement related to cloud-related incidents
- Works with outside teams to assess third-party cloud service providers to ensure alignment with our security standards
- Collaborates with cross-functional teams to integrate security into the CI/CD pipeline and ensure continuous security throughout the software development lifecycle
- Utilize a Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) solution to monitor and manage the configuration of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) frameworks, ensuring strict adherence to established security standards and policies
- Regularly review CSPM findings to identify and address security vulnerabilities proactively
- Produces and maintains documentation of all cloud-related security controls
- Analyzes activities and documented resolutions
- Identifies problem areas, devise, and deliver solutions to enhance quality of service and prevent future issues
- Defines key operational metrics, develops reporting, and set targets to continuously improve
- Participates in Information Security projects and supports team efforts for day-to-day operations
- Remains current on cloud-security trends while integrating best practices into our security strategy
- Aggressively automates repeated tasks to allow the team to scale with the organization’s growth
- Communicates and acts as liaison with a variety of teams
- Serves as a subject matter expert inside of SGWS and assists with complex issues pertaining to cloud security as needed
- Occasional after-hours participation may be required in the event of emergencies or critical situations
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s Degree
- Active CSSP or other relevant security-related certification
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 10 or more years of work experience in IT
- 7 or more years of hands-on experience in developing and maintaining cloud environments
- Relevant industry experience with a technical background
- Adaptability and ability to manage change
- In-depth understanding and extensive hands-on management of major cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, and Google Cloud Platform
- Ability to assess security risks associated with cloud environments
- Ability to analyze complex security issues, troubleshoot, and develop solutions
- Superior interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
- Ability to monitor project progress by tracking activities, issues/risks/dependencies, and provides recommendation for resolution
- Familiar with serverless computing models and understanding of security considerations specific to serverless architectures
- Business Acumen
- Critical, creative, and strategic thinker
- Problem Solver
- Excellent presentation and facilitation skills
- Excellent customer service skills in all interactions with internal and external customers, including but not limited to partners from other divisions, vendors, and suppliers across all areas of the business
- Strong planning and organizational skills to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities
Agile Delivery Values
- Openness – Team and stakeholders agree to be open about all work and challenges
- Commitment – Personally commit to achieving the goals of the team
- Respect – Respect your team members to be capable and independent
- Courage – You have courage to do the right thing and work on tough problems
- Focus – Everyone focus on the work in the sprint and the goal of the scrum team. Rise and fall as a team
Physical Demands
- Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing/keyboarding, using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor), or mobile device
- Physical demands with activity or condition may occasionally include walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting, and stooping
- May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs
EEO Statement
Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges.
* Salary range is an estimate based on our InfoSec / Cybersecurity Salary Index 💰
Tags: Agile AWS Azure CI/CD Cloud CSPM GCP Incident response ISO 27001 Kubernetes Monitoring NIST Scrum SDLC Security strategy Strategy Threat detection Vulnerabilities
Perks/benefits: Career development Competitive pay Flex hours Flex vacation Health care Insurance Medical leave Parental leave Team events Wellness
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