Principal Engineer, Cloud Security Engineering

Location: Conshohocken

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Job Details The Principal Engineer, Cloud Security is responsible for engineering, implementing, and continuously improving enterprise cloud security capabilities across a complex, multinational, multi-cloud technology environment.

The position serves as a senior technical authority for cloud security engineering, cloud-native protection, infrastructure security automation, security posture management, and secure cloud platform integration.

The successful candidate will bring extensive hands-on experience with cloud technologies, infrastructure-as-code, cloud-native security services, and enterprise-scale security platform engineering.

This role is critical to accelerating secure cloud adoption, reducing exploitable exposure, improving control effectiveness, and modernizing cybersecurity engineering through automation and scalable platform capabilities.

The Principal Engineer will partner with Cloud Platform Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Cyber Defense, IAM, Application Security, and technology teams to embed security into cloud infrastructure and development life cycles.

Key responsibilities
1. Multi-cloud security engineering — 25%
Design, engineer, and implement enterprise cloud security capabilities across Azure, AWS, and GCP.Develop reusable security engineering patterns for landing zones, subscriptions, accounts, projects, workloads, and cloud services.

Engineer controls for cloud network segmentation, workload isolation, secure service connectivity, and internet exposure reduction.

Implement security guardrails using native cloud controls and enterprise security platforms.

Partner with cloud platform teams to embed security requirements into standard cloud provisioning and deployment processes.

Ensure cloud security architectures support resilience, scalability, operational efficiency, and regulatory obligations.
2. Cloud security posture and workload protection — 25%
Engineer and optimize CNAPP, CSPM, CWPP, CIEM, and cloud exposure management capabilities.

Develop integrations between cloud security platforms, cloud-native services, enterprise asset inventories, and cyber defense technologies.

Establish continuous visibility into cloud misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, identity exposures, and attack paths.

Implement risk-based prioritization of exploitable cloud security findings.

Develop automated remediation workflows and preventative controls.

Validate cloud security platform coverage, data quality, control effectiveness, and detection accuracy.

Engineer protections for containers, Kubernetes, serverless services, virtual machines, and managed cloud workloads.
3. Cloud security automation and Dev Sec Ops  — 20%
Build infrastructure-as-code and policy-as-code solutions using Terraform, Bicep, Cloud Formation, OPA, or equivalent technologies.

Develop preventative security guardrails embedded into cloud deployment pipelines.

Engineer automated security testing, drift detection, configuration validation, and remediation.

Integrate cloud security controls into Git Hub Actions, Azure Dev Ops, Git Lab, or equivalent CI/CD environments.

Develop reusable modules, APIs, and engineering workflows to reduce manual control implementation.

Improve cloud security engineering reliability through automated testing, version control, observability, and deployment standards.
4. Cloud-native security architecture and integration — 15%
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