Engineering - Cloud Security - Security Architecture & Platform Engineering - Vice President - Seattle

Key Responsibilities

• Cloud Security Architecture & Platform Leadership: Design, implement, and maintain secure cloud architecture aligned with NIST frameworks and industry-recognized cloud security standards, ensuring compliance, resilience, and least-privilege access across cloud environments.
• Lead deployment and integration of cloud security posture management platforms with enterprise services including risk management systems, monitoring infrastructure, security information and event management (SIEM), and compliance frameworks.
• Architect policy-as-code frameworks for infrastructure security controls, enabling shift-left security and automated compliance validation across multi-cloud environments.
• Define and implement secure-by-default infrastructure patterns for cloud account provisioning and service onboarding.
• Technical Leadership & Expertise: Demonstrates thought leadership; guides and upskills other engineers and clients in cloud best practices; demonstrates expertise with automation and infrastructure as code (IaC).
• Lead strategic initiatives for cloud-native authentication and authorization, including certificate-based service identity frameworks and fine-grained access control systems.
• Partner with middleware and platform engineering teams on secure messaging infrastructure migration from on-premise to cloud-native solutions.
• Provide regional timezone coverage for cloud access and security platform operational issues, participating in 24/7 follow-the-sun support model.

DevOps & Platform Engineering

• Past enterprise level experience in DevOps, Software, Infrastructure or Site Reliability Engineering.
• Proficient in infrastructure as code practices using technologies such as CDK, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and/or SaltStack.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines from scratch with integrated security gates and automated policy enforcement.
• Hands-on experience developing and improving all phases of the software development/delivery lifecycle.
• Strong grasp of container technology and container orchestration.

Observability & Operational Excellence

• Proficient in one or more enterprise scale observability tools such as Splunk, Datadog, FluentD, ELK.
• Experience maintaining and improving the reliability of applications and infrastructure.
• Implement SLO/SLI frameworks, monitoring strategies, and automated remediation workflows.
• Lead root cause analysis for security and access control incidents, implementing preventive measures.

Collaboration & Documentation

• Able to document solutions, cloud architectural patterns, and best practices to ensure that clients have guidance as needed.
• Proven ability to partner with cloud hyperscale partners to define and troubleshoot cloud architectures and service enablements.
• Establish trusted partnerships with Tech Risk, Compliance, Platform Engineering, and business unit stakeholders.
• Mentor Associate and Analyst-level engineers on platform internals, security best practices, and operational excellence.

Software Development & Architecture

• Solid understanding of Microservices and APIs.
• Design and implement automated workflows for security finding management, remediation tracking, and compliance reporting.
• Build self-service capabilities for business units to manage security posture and access controls.
• Eager to problem solve and troubleshoot issues that may arise day to day.