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Engineering

Cloud Security Engineer

  • - Hybrid Remote
Splunk, a Cisco company, is building a safer and more resilient digital world with an end-to-end full stack platform made for a hybrid, multi-cloud world. Leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. Our customers love our technology, but it's our caring employees that make Splunk stand out as an amazing career destination. No matter where in the world or what level of the organization, we approach our work with kindness. So bring your work experience, problem-solving skills and talent, of course, but also bring your joy, your passion and all the things that make you, you. Come help organizations be their best, while you reach new heights with a team that has your back.

Role Summary

Are you passionate about solving sophisticated, high-impact security challenges at scale?Join our dynamic Security Engineering team where you will be looking after designing, developing and deploying software and solutions to improve Splunk’s security posture. You will have an opportunity to use your entire range of skills and interact with a number of teams within Splunk Global Security ranging from SOC, Incident Response (IR) and Forensic, Threat and Vulnerability Management (TVM) and Cybersecurity Risk. Get ready to make a tangible impact on the future of security at Splunk!

Meet the Global Security Team

Splunk is here to build a safer and more resilient digital world. The world's leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. While customers love our technology, it's our people that make Splunk stand out as an outstanding career destination and why we've won so many awards as the best place to work. If you become a Splunker, we want your whole, authentic self, what we call your "million data points". Learn more about SGS, meet our leaders, and hear more from our Splunk security experts at splunk.com/careers/splunk-global-security.

What you'll get to do

  • Plan Security Strategy:Design, implement, and maintain security controls and guardrails across hybrid cloud environments (Azure/AWS/GCP)
  • Participate in the complete software development cycle: Understand requirements, design, develop, test, automate and deploy software
  • Identify and resolve pre-production system bottlenecks and production issues
  • Engage in design and code reviews, and improve your knowledge of our customers’ experiences to prevent future problems
  • Ensure the code is maintainable and the product is diagnosable and serviceable

Must-have Qualifications

  • 5+ yrs of experience in software engineering and cloud security
  • Strong background data structures and algorithms
  • Coding expertise in Python or Go
  • Solid experience with Azure or AWS or GCP
  • Strong debugging and trouble-shooting skills including the use of associated tools
  • Experience with CI/CD systems (Gitlab, Jenkins, etc), test automation frameworks, cloud automation (Terraform, etc), collaboration (Confluence, Jira, etc) and Kubernetes
  • Ability to document your work for the benefit of the team
  • Knowledge of REST, gRPC or similar communication paradigms
  • Strong interpersonal skills and Innovation approach
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent work experience

Nice-to-have Qualifications

We’ve taken special care to separate the must-have qualifications from the nice-to-haves. “Nice-to-have” means just that: Nice. To. Have. So, don’t worry if you can’t check off every box. We’re not hiring a list of bullet points–we’re interested in the whole you.
  • Cloud Security certifications such as AZ-500, AWS Security Speciality, or GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer.
  • Extensive experience in collaborating effectively in multi-functional teams to implement security practices.
  • Experience with policy-as-code and governance tools like Open Policy Agent (OPA), Cloud Custodian, and Cloud Query.

Splunk is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Splunk, a Cisco company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.

Splunk's Hiring Practices

Splunk turns machine data into answers. Organizations use market-leading Splunk solutions with machine learning to solve their toughest IT, Internet of Things and security challenges.

We value diversity, equity, and inclusion at Splunk and are committed to equal employment opportunity. Qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age, physical or mental disability or medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state or local laws. We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Click here to review the US Department of Labor’s EEO is The Law notice. Please click here to review Splunk’s Affirmative Action Policy Statement. If you need assistance or an accommodation to apply or during the hiring process, please let us know by completing our Accommodation Request form.

Splunk also has policies in place to protect the personal information candidates disclose to us as part of the application process. Please click here to review Splunk’s Career Site Privacy Policy.

Splunk does not discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. Please click here to review Splunk’s Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision.

Splunk is committed to the health and safety of our employees and customers. Splunk is impacted by the mandates outlined for U.S. Government contractors in President Biden’s Path out of the Pandemic: COVID-19 Action Plan. As a result, Splunk requires U.S. employees, whether assigned to an office or 100% remote, to provide proof of full vaccination, as defined by the CDC. Splunk provides reasonable accommodations for employees who have qualifying medical or religious reasons.

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