Principal Security Engineer

About the role:

As a Principal Security Engineer responsible for Gartner's Cloud Security Program, you'll provide hands-on leadership in defining a cloud security strategy and governing cloud security posture through continuous monitoring and remediation. As a Principal Engineer, you will be accountable for publishing, measuring and enforcing security policies and minimum security baselines, along with responsibility and accountability for detecting and driving remediation of cyber security threats across AWS, Azure and GCP. This role will partner with our Cloud Center of Excellence, Security Engineering, Security Risk, and Security Operations teams to ensure Incident Response and GRC functions across all cloud properties.

What you will do:

• Define and drive the adoption, improvement, and governance of the Cloud Information Security Program.
• Define, build and implement Gartner's cloud security strategy and regularly assess the technical and resource needs to support the long-term vision for the program.
• Evaluate business and technical requirements to identify and implement tools, processes, and technologies to improve our security posture in our cloud environments.
• Ensure the continuous improvement of existing compliance processes.
• Coordinate the orchestration, automation, and management of cloud native tools as well as 3rd party vendor solutions.
• Ownership and day-to-day management of the cloud security posture management platform.
• Engage with stakeholders to help architect with adequate security and resiliency features in cloud and hybrid environments.
• Improve cloud security posture by driving standardization, configuration management, and issue tracking.
• Own day-to-day life cycle management of identification and remediation of security vulnerabilities in the cloud properties.
• Ability to create reasonable and actionable reports showing direct impact to the security posture.
• Support Security Operations during incident response and investigations.
• Define and implement meaningful metrics to measure the effectiveness of security controls through KRIs and security scorecards.
• Maintain and improve the cloud security control framework in support of corporate-wide programs.
• Maintain and improve the cloud information security program documentation structure, supporting templates, and standard procedures.
• Help facilitate the education and training of cross functional teams in InfoSec and IT.

• Serve as a subject-matter-expert for cloud security and act as a first point of contact for critical issues, security risk assessments, third-party audits, and regulatory requirements.

What you will need:

• 7+ years of experience in Information Security and proven experience in cloud security.
• 3+ years of strategic technical leadership experience in Information Security.
• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, information systems, cybersecurity or a related field.
• Deep knowledge of cloud security and cloud security posture management platforms (Prisma, AWS Security Hub, Wiz, etc. ) with an ability to think like a bad actor and use that context to conduct threat models.
• Deep technical expertise in at least one additional area of Information Security.
• Proven communication, collaboration, and critical thinking skills.
• Ability to define and communicate risk in a business-relevant language to both non-technical and technical audiences.
• Prior success in leading complex technology development, managing priorities and concept-to-implementation execution, and delivering market-leading technology solutions; strong engineering delivery and execution track record, with proven experience around design concepts, development, integration, testing, etc.
• In-depth understanding of technological architecture, and broad knowledge of a wide variety of technology platforms, tools and languages.
• Ability to build trusting, meaningful relationships with peers, stakeholders, partners and suppliers.
• Experience leading projects, initiatives, and resources through direct and indirect leadership.

Who are we?

Gartner delivers actionable, objective insight to executives and their teams. Our expert guidance and tools enable faster, smarter decisions and stronger performance on an organization's most critical priorities. We've grown exponentially since our founding in 1979 and we're proud to have nearly 16,000 associates globally that support our 14,000+ clients in more than 100 countries.

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What we offer:

Our people are our most valuable asset, so we invest in them from Day 1. When you join our team, you'll have access to a vast array of benefits to help you live your life well. These resources are designed to support your physical, financial and emotional well-being. We encourage continued personal and professional growth through ongoing learning and development opportunities. Our employee resource groups, charity match and volunteer programs keep you connected to your internal Gartner community and causes that matter to you.

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