Cloud Security Engineer

Position Summary

Cloud Center of Excellence of Thales is currently seeking a Cloud Security Engineer to join the team in Austin, TX. This role may require onsite presence once restrictions have been lifted. You have a deep interest in Security for the Cloud? You like to innovate and pursue new technologies, solve problems and contribute to high profile projects? You have good development experience? You are familiar with automation on AWS Cloud infrastructure? You are passionate about protecting critical infrastructure, applications, services, and data systems? You love challenges and want to participate in building new experiences on services? Come and join our team to collaborate with leaders, developers, and security teams to secure our Cloud infrastructure. Participate in a culture where security tools and best practices is something everyone thinks about every day. Build security services to reinforce Thales products all over the world.

Special Position Requirements

• Duty of 1 week is required and happens one or two times per month.
• Regulatory Compliance Requirements:
  • CFIUS clearance
  • CJIS clearance

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field with a minimum of 5-8+ years of relevant work experience
• Master’s degree in related field with 4+ years of relevant work experience
• 4+ years of experience building and architecting on Cloud-based Platforms
• 4+ years experience working on Cloud Provider AWS
• Experience working with Gitlab, Terraform and Kubernetes
• Experience in programming in Python

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or a related technical field of study
• Have a high interest for new technology
• Global knowledge on security

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Evaluating, designing, developing, creating proof of concept and implementing security-focused tools and services.
• Supporting the company-defined cloud strategy.
• Ensuring and advocating cloud security practices.
• Driving engineering teams across all security practices.
• Making sure about continuous Thales CDI Cloud improvements.
• Identifying, raising and mitigating security weaknesses on Thales CDI Cloud infrastructure.
• Operating security framework on Cloud environments.

Benefits

• Elective Health, Dental, Vision, FSA/HSA, Voluntary Life and AD&D, Whole Group Life w/LTC, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Plan, Identity Theft, and Pet Insurance
• Retirement Savings Plan after 30 days of employment with a company contribution and a match, and with no vesting period
• Company paid holidays and Paid Time Off
• Company provided Life Insurance, AD&D, Disability, Employee Assistance Plan, and Well-being Program