Head of Cloud Security Engineering

Who We Are Looking For

The State Street Cyber Architecture & Engineering team is looking for a Head of Cloud Security Engineering. We deliver the tooling and solutions to help secure State Street’s digital footprint. We are looking for a strong leader with deep experience in multi-cloud environments, secure-by-design cloud architectures and controls, and leading a team of Dev Sec Ops  or security engineers.

As Head of Cloud Security Engineering, you will:

• Lead a team of cloud security engineers focused on delivering best-in-class solutions to secure State Street cloud environments
• Continue to uplift the security controls across State Street’s multi-cloud ecosystem
• Oversee and advise on cloud service hardening, management of policy-as-code and associated pipelines, cloud security posture monitoring, cloud security consultation and reviews, cloud security enablement activities and cloud security incident response.
• Ensure that the necessary operational and governance hygiene is implemented and maintained (SOPs, reference cloud security architectures, etc)
• Coordinate the day-to-day deployment and management of tooling and controls across cloud environments.
• Partner with our peers within Cyber Security and Global Technology Services to deliver on cross-functional requirements.
• Manage the audit requirements and associated activities within the Cloud Security Engineering space
• Audit existing services for problems in infrastructure with security, configuration, or other possible issues.
• Mentor cloud security engineers and coordinate training to ensure the Cloud Security Engineering team maintains a high bar of operational excellence.

• Deep knowledge of AWS or Azure, including best practices around security guardrail implementation and service hardening.
• At least 3+ years leading either SRE, Dev Sec Ops  or cloud security engineering teams.
• At least 10+ years of SRE or cloud security engineering in public cloud environments.
• Working experience with Containers and Kubernetes within AWS, Azure or OCI cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with compliance frameworks such as NIST 800-53 and CMM.
• Experience aligning cloud security controls to the MITRE framework
• Demonstrated experience with aligning technical architecture and standards/processes to deliver the best user experience.
• Experience with cloud posture management tooling (Wiz, Prisma, etc).

Our Cyber Security function, Global Cyber Security (GCS), is vital to State Street and is the key enabler for our business to deliver data and insights securely to our clients. We’re driving the company’s digital transformation and expanding business capabilities using industry best practices and AI driven, digital-first customer experiences.

We offer a collaborative environment where technology skills and innovation are valued in a global organization. We’re looking for top technical talent to join our team and deliver creative technology solutions that help us become an end-to-end, next-generation financial services company. Join us if you want to grow your technical skills, solve real problems and make your mark on our industry!

State Street is one of the largest custodian banks, asset managers and asset intelligence companies in the world. From technology to product innovation we’re making our mark on the financial services industry. For more than two centuries, we’ve been helping our clients safeguard and steward the investments of millions of people. We provide investment servicing, data & analytics, investment research & trading and investment management to institutional clients.

Work, Live and Grow. We make all efforts to create a great work environment. Our benefits packages are competitive and comprehensive. Details vary in locations, but you may expect generous medical care, insurance and savings plans among other perks. You’ll have access to flexible Work Program to help you match your needs. And our wealth of development programs and educational support will help you reach your full potential.

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