Security Engineer L5, Cloud Architecture, Tooling and Security

Netflix

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Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$400,000–$680,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
24 days ago
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Above market

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Netflix is the world''s leading streaming entertainment service, offering a vast library of TV series, films, documentaries, and original content to subscribers in over 190 countries. Industry: Streaming Entertainment & Media

Netflix currently has 165 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Security Engineer L5, Cloud Architecture, Tooling and Security

The Security Engineer (L5) - Cloud Architecture, Tooling and Security joins the CATS team to design and implement strategic cloud security boundaries. This role focuses on balancing risk with business needs by building scalable security solutions for account management, cloud identity, and access management. You will collaborate with software engineering teams to design secure cloud access patterns, paved paths, and security archetypes for new business verticals and acquisitions. Key responsibilities include performing threat assessments, developing internal tooling and scripting for GCP, and managing AWS account security. Required skills include deep expertise in AWS architecture, GCP security, identity governance, and cloud security fundamentals. You must be able to build scrappy data analysis tools and define secure-by-default blueprints for project lifecycles and service account management.

What does a Security Engineer earn?

Median $192000 from 115 postings across 44 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design and implement high-level cloud security boundaries and secure access patterns for AWS and GCP.
  • Build scalable security solutions for account management, cloud identity, and access management (IAM).
  • Develop internal tooling and scripts to build cloud security capabilities where they currently do not exist.
  • Design and implement cloud security strategies and archetypes to manage and right-size cloud resources.
  • Perform threat assessments and apply AWS architecture knowledge to address specific security requests.
  • Define secure-by-default blueprints for GCP project lifecycles and service account management.
  • Collaborate with software engineering teams to design and implement scalable cloud security solutions for new business verticals.
  • Define meaningful metrics to gauge and guide the overall cloud security posture and progress.

What we're looking for

  • Deep understanding of cloud security fundamentals, specifically CloudSec operations and AWS account management.
  • Expertise in GCP security architecture, including organization-wide security guardrails and identity governance.
  • Ability to architect and implement secure-by-default blueprints for GCP project lifecycles and service account management.
  • Ability to build scrappy tooling, scripting, and data analysis tools.
  • Experience collaborating with product and engineering teams to design security solutions.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills for conveying complex technical issues cross-functionally.
  • Experience securing challenging 3rd-party cloud infrastructure access patterns, such as vendor integrations (preferred).
  • Experience defining insightful and meaningful metrics to gauge and guide cloud security posture (preferred).

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