Senior Cyber Security Cloud Engineer - Qualcomm - Cork, Ireland

About the role

Qualcomm offers flexible work options tailored to our employee’s needs. These include a combination of work from home and working in our brand new, state of the art office in Penrose Dock, Cork.

Well-being and life balance are fundamental to Qualcomm as an employer.  We recognise and understand that employees have missed spending quality time with loved ones and extended family. 

As such, Cork Qualcomm policy allows our employees to blend short-term remote working with annual leave.

The Information Security & Risk Management (ISRM) organization is looking for a strong team player with extensive experience in cloud security. As a Senior Cloud Security Engineer, you will be responsible for securing Qualcomm’s public cloud environments, including AWS, Azure and GCP. You will use state-of-the-art tools and techniques to introspect cloud environments, apply security best practices and to develop automated security infrastructure. You will partner closely with architects and developers across the company doing DevSecOps to enable rapid iteration in cloud environments while maintaining the highest security standards.

As a Senior Cyber Security Cloud Engineer at Qualcomm
you will be collaborating with our engineering team to refine and enhance our security strategies across our large, diverse cloud ecosystem. From your current skillset to those you obtain, your expertise will be utilized to drive the future of our cloud security software. You’ll play a key role in expanding our product roadmap, automating escalations and remediations, and offering insight into potential threats along with their mitigations. You’ll also be involved in taking the knowledge you have and gain from our own CI/CD and Devops processes and apply them practically to contribute to and solve real world problems with dynamic business units and functions. Tying together information from multiple information sources to assist with operational and risk metrics, dashboards, and reporting to highlight overall security posture, risks, and opportunities with users, service teams, and leadership, emphasizing transparency and open communication. There are many exciting aspects, opportunities, and challenges you will face as a member of the team.

We are a collaborative team
that is always learning, sharing, and researching. You will work with engineers and business stakeholder across the company to secure complex infrastructure and applications. You will need communication, analytical, and interpersonal skills, and the ability to learn and grow in a rapidly evolving environment. We welcome candidates who are passionate about cybersecurity and eager to learn and grow as engineers on our Cloud Cybersecurity team.  At Qualcomm, we are committed to fostering a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) so a strong desire to contribute to DEI initiatives is highly valued.

We are looking for motivated people
who have experience in the areas listed, but even more importantly a strong desire to learn and grow as an engineer on the Cloud Cybersecurity team.  At this level, we are committed to help provide training opportunities to acclimate new employees to how Qualcomm’s cloud security team operates.

Responsibilities

• Work with the internal team on creating best practices and integrating security considerations in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Analyze events and develop policies within the cloud security platform.
• Leverage infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation to automate the provisioning and management of cloud resources.
• Assist with security baselines, principles, and strategies.
• Participate in the planning and execution of cloud security roadmaps.

• Partner with the cloud team to securely organize and manage cloud account lifecycle, access, security controls, and policies.
• Leverage programming skills to develop tools that streamline security processes and reduce operational overhead.

Additional responsibilities may include:

• Support other ISRM activities, goals, and objectives as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

Qualcomm values people from all walks of life and backgrounds. We understand not everyone will meet all the below qualifications on day one. That's okay! If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, if you cover even some of these preferences - we encourage you to apply.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or other related fields and 3+ years of Cybersecurity relevant work experience OR 5+ years Cybersecurity-relevant work experience without a bachelor’s degree.
• 5+ years of programming experience (Python preferred)
• 2+ years working in cloud environments (Azure or GCP preferred)
• A basic understanding of cloud security best practices, threat modeling, and offensive techniques.
• Expert understanding of and experience with Scrum/Agile development.
• Expert understanding of and experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Certifications are a plus but not required (Azure AZ900, Google Associate Cloud Sec Engineer, AWS Cloud Practitioner, Certified Kubernetes Application Developer)

Education Requirements 

Required: Bachelors of Science in: Computer Engineering, or Computer Science, or Applied Mathematics, or Information Technology; or equivalent experience.

Preferred: Masters of Science in Computer Engineering, or Computer Science, or Applied Mathematics, or Information Technology.