Principal Cloud Security Engineer

About the role

The Cloud Security Engineering (CSE) team at Pega is responsible for protecting the company's cloud infrastructure, applications, and data across AWS and GCP environments. They partner closely with Cloud Operations, Service Reliability, and Engineering to ensure that their environments are secure, scalable, and resilient.

Responsibilities

• Own the implementation and maintenance of critical cloud security systems and supporting infrastructure
• Automate manual system administration and infrastructure tasks
• Contribute to the strategic direction of security controls across multiple cloud providers
• Assist with vulnerability management, remediation tracking, and risk mitigation efforts
• Partner with Cloud Operations and Engineering teams to provide guidance on secure configurations and best practices
• Help maintain and improve security policies, standards, and procedures
• Stay current on emerging cloud security threats and trends

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in cloud engineering, cloud operations, SRT, SRE, DevOps, cloud security in cloud environments
• Demonstrated strong understanding of cloud security concepts and controls
• Experience automating and securing Linux systems and cloud-based infrastructure (SELinux, FIPS)
• Experience with security monitoring, alerting, or incident response (Splunk, Chronicle, CrowdStrike)
• Experience with containerized deployments

Preferred

• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with multiple Linux distributions
• Work in FedRAMP or DOD Impact Level-rated environments
• Exposure to DevOps tools and CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with API integrations or modern cloud-native architectures
• Windows System Administration, automation

Qualifications

• Passionate about cloud technologies and security best practices and have strong opinions about AI security
• Hands-on experience with AWS core services (EC2, VPC)
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Comfortable with scripting (Python, Ansible, PowerShell or similar)
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot and escalate appropriately
• Collaborative team player with strong communication skills

Skills

• Strong understanding of cloud security concepts and controls
• Experience automating and securing Linux systems and cloud-based infrastructure (SELinux, FIPS)
• Experience with security monitoring, alerting, or incident response (Splunk, Chronicle, CrowdStrike)
• Experience with containerized deployments
• Experience with multiple Linux distributions
• Work in FedRAMP or DOD Impact Level-rated environments
• Exposure to DevOps tools and CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with API integrations or modern cloud-native architectures
• Windows System Administration, automation

Benefits

Pega offers a competitive global benefits program inclusive of pay + bonus incentive, employee equity in the company. The final compensation will be determined during the offer process based on the candidate's education, experience, skills, and qualifications, as well as market conditions and may vary from the posted range. We will share an information on benefits, bonus/commission, and other pay components for this role at the relevant recruitment stage.

Pay

Base salary range for this role is 122,600 - 186,800 USD annually. This role may also be eligible for annual bonus OR commission, as well as benefits and other incentives. The final compensation will be determined during the offer process based on the candidate's education, experience, skills, and qualifications, as well as market conditions and may vary from the posted range. We will share an information on benefits, bonus/commission, and other pay components for this role at the relevant recruitment stage.

Schedule

Not specified