PayPal Cloud Security Automation Engineer 

United States, Illinois, Chicago 

591783253

Essential Responsibilities:

• Independently apply security best practices to enhance and optimize systems, ensuring robust protection and efficiency, while beginning to understand and align security solutions with business objectives.
• Partner with peers and internal teams to drive security initiatives, contribute to cross-functional projects, and at times co-lead efforts to strengthen security posture.
• Analyze and resolve security challenges by adapting standard processes and exploring alternative approaches to address complex threats.
• Influence the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of the team through informed decision-making, with a potential impact on other teams.
• Collaborate with other engineers to gather and incorporate feedback, driving continuous improvements in security processes.

Expected Qualifications:

• 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

Top skills required:

• Cloud Security knowledge and best practices in GCP, AWS environments.
• Cloud security posture management understanding to provide remediation advisory.
• Cloud security evidence collection and forensics.
• Experience withinfrastructure-as-codetools like CloudFormation, Terraform, etc.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills
• Hands-on experience with Docker containers in Kubernetes environments
• Collaborative mindset to work along cross-functional teams.

Nice to have skills:

• Cloud native security tools management.
• Manage CSPM solution. Preferably Wiz.
• Understanding on vulnerability management on cloud environments (such as CSPM findings, configuration findings, etc.).
• Industry cybersecurity standards (such as PCI, ISO 27000 Family, NIST, CIS, SOC 2, etc.)
• Basic DFIR processes in cloud environments.
• Collaborative mindset.
• Agile methodology knowledge and understanding.

In their day-to-day they will:

• Onboarding Cloud accounts (such as Azure, AWS & GCP) – this includes access grant, enabling policies, configuring baselines, configuring agents (if applicable), verifying health status
• Administer CSPM solution – this includes managing user roles, audit logs, manage API access
• Discover cloud assets – this includes gaining visibility and manage cloud assets
• Manage Security policies and Benchmarks – this includes configuring CSPs specific security policies, industry specific compliance policies (such as PCI), benchmarks standards (such as CIS, NIST, etc.)
• Respond to alerts – this includes monitor, investigate and triage incidents based on actionable alerts
• Manage OS hardening – this includes administer operating system baseline and hardening
• Integration with 3rd party systems – this includes manage changes, requests on integration with other systems (such as ITSM and CI/CD Tools)
• Remediation guidance – this includes providing recommendations to the stakeholders to fix the potential threats, applying configurations on the systems to maintain IT security regulatory compliance and standards
• Manage reports – this includes providing reports to the business and relevant stakeholders

Travel Percent:

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .

The US national annual pay range for this role is $123,500 to $212,850

Our Benefits:

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