The Cloud Security Engineer will develop security solutions for cloud services, automate security policies, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating across teams.
Cargill's size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way. We are a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials - from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. Our 160,000 colleagues, operating in 70 countries, make essential products that touch billions of lives each day. Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill.
Job Purpose and Impact
Key Accountabilities
Qualifications
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.
Job Purpose and Impact
- The Cloud Security Engineer will help solidify foundation for the company's modern business applications. In this role, you will apply your knowledge of cybersecurity and cloud engineering practices to secure and operate Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service used by our data and application teams to drive business value.You will also coach and mentor junior engineers to deliver highly scalable security solutions using automation
Key Accountabilities
- Develop and maintain security and resiliency of enterprise-grade cloud services to support Cargill's mission
- Implement and manage cloud security solutions across AWS & Azure
- Automate security policies and workflows using scripting languages and cloud native security tools to improve efficiency and scalability
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (enterprise IT product teams, Cloud Center of Excellence, DevOps, Software Engineering, Compliance) to integrate security practices into cloud deployments
- Assist with incident response activities for cloud-related security incidents, including investigation, containment, remediation, and post-mortem analysis
- Lead stakeholder interactions and mentor more junior engineers
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Minimum of four years of related work experience in cloud engineering concepts
- Experience with AWS networking security tools (ANF, security groups) and with AWS cloud security technologies, including IAM, Guard duty, Wiz, Prisma Cloud etc.
- Experience with container technologies (Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, Swarm, Docker, etc.)
- Strong background in scripting and programming, including - Terraform, Golang or Python, PowerShell
- Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as DevOps, CI/CD, application resiliency, and security
- Ability to analyze system metrics and other types of data to draw insightful conclusions
Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills:- Certifications in AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud.
- Strong experience in developing and architecting cloud-native applications with AWS services
- Cybersecurity certifications (i.e., CISSP, CEH, CCSP, GSEC, etc.)
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.
Top Skills
AWS
Azure
Docker
Ecs
Eks
Go
Guard Duty
Iam
Kubernetes
Powershell
Prisma Cloud
Python
Swarm
Terraform
Wiz
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