The Role:
Do you have a passion for securing cloud-native environments? Are you interested in creating and defining industry-leading standards and patterns? Would you like the opportunity to work with a world class engineering team, to train, mentor, and grow a security oriented development culture? Outreach’s needs Sr. Cloud Security Engineers who can work with our product and site reliability engineering teams to secure our public cloud environment and infrastructure.
The ideal candidate has the skills of a site reliability engineer, with a background in security and a deep understanding of cloud security principles and tools. This is a role focused on building, rather than breaking -- instead of penetration testing and security review, this role focuses on operating and maintaining capabilities like cloud security posture management, web application firewalls, and API security gateways, and using those capabilities to identify vulnerabilities in our environment and drive remediation and security improvements. The ideal candidate will take ownership of the ongoing improvement of the processes and technical security controls used by our engineering teams, building and implementing new capabilities in partnership with product engineering.
Starting day one, you will be working with engineering partners from across our organization, and at times, directly with our customers. You will help train and collaborate with PMs and engineers on cloud security and the remediation of security vulnerabilities.
The primary focus areas for this position are:Technical Fluency - A passion for security and technology, familiarity with DevOps methodology and containers, public cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, and GCP), CSPM tools and other cloud security solutions, and microservice architectures.
Advisory Skills - Giving direction, advice and support that helps grow the technical and collaboration skills of the individuals and teams with which they engage.
Execution - Planning, coordination, managing dependencies and risks, diving deep when issues arise. Ability to work with people and drive a program to completion is a must.
Your Daily Adventures Will Include:
- Operate Outreach's CSPM (Cloud Security Posture Management), vulnerability management, web application firewall, and API security solutions as owner and lead engineer
- Research the threat landscape, regulatory considerations, and customer requirements applicable to Outreach’s business and recommend security solutions to address known (and potential) threats and risks by identifying and implementing appropriate engineering security requirements.
- Drive vulnerability remediation for cloud & infrastructure vulnerabilities in the Outreach environment
- Lead initiatives to implement new cloud & infrastructure security capabilities and tools
- Assist the security team with carrying out operations (such as gathering data or modifying configurations) requiring cloud security expertise
- Ensuring cross company collaboration by establishing a strong partnership between security and engineering teams with the overarching goal of improving trust of Outreach and its products.
Our Vision of You:
- 8+ years experience working in Security Engineering, preferably some of that experience working specifically for SaaS companies supporting a wide variety of industry and customer base
- Experience with AWS and Azure environments and administration
- Experience with with the administration, deployment, and maintenance of vulnerability management & cloud security posture management
- Demonstrated success working with engineers and technologies in cloud native, devops environments (including CI/CD pipelines, microservices, and infrastructure as code)
- Significant experience in partnering and collaborating with individual engineers, as well as creating formal documentation assets to summarize and represent program effectiveness to executive leadership
- Experience evaluating, selecting and implementing third party programs and services to support a successful security program.
- Experience training and mentoring peers with security skills and best practices.
- Excellent interpersonal and management skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills --experience working with customers, customer marketing or customer support teams a plus.
- Ability to work flexibly and independently to achieve results within the dynamic Outreach culture.
