Cloud Security Principal Engineer

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Ally Financial only succeeds when its people do - and that’s more than some cliché people put on job postings. We live this stuff! We see our people as, well, people - with interests, families, friends, dreams, and causes that are all important to them. Our focus is on the health and safety of our teammates as well as work-life balance and diversity and inclusion.

From generous benefits to a variety of employee resource groups, we strive to build paths that encourage employees to stretch themselves professionally. We want to help you grow, develop, and learn new things. You’re constantly evolving, so shouldn’t your opportunities be, too?

The Cloud Security Principal Engineer position at Ally is a member of the Information Protection and Risk Management team and works closely with other members of the IPRM program to identify, manage, and mitigate security risks  engineer is part of a broader team of security engineers reporting to the Sr. Director, Cloud Security who are responsible for developing, deploying, and integrating technical controls and tools to meet specific security requirements, as well as defining processes and standards to ensure that security configurations and tools are maintained.

This is a project focused resource within the organization and will focus on designing and implementing both technologies and governance processes focused on our SaaS platforms. This resource will have potential opportunity to transition into a longer-term engagement to continue to mature and improve the SaaS security service.

• Primary responsibility will be to support our existing cloud security infrastructure and security projects with potential to take on responsibilities for other technologies such as Dev Ops toolchain, Cloud automation, SaaS posture management, AI and other technologies.
• Define and mature cloud-focused security policies and controls (governance, processes, frameworks, metrics).
• Managing the day to day troubleshooting of the enterprise CSPM platform and other security controls. This includes:
  • Configuration tuning, troubleshooting, as well as defining and executing escalation criteria.
  • Work with Security teams to tune control systems to best meet the need of the business.
  • Ability to identify security risks and work with IPRM team to report and lead the remediation efforts.
• Perform architecture and engineering responsibilities in support of existing technologies and new security projects.
• Perform daily, weekly and monthly health checks, user activity audits and must have good knowledge in determining baseline offsets.
• Identify, Implement, and Operationalize security technologies and processes to improve visibility and reduce risk.
• Partner with other technical leaders throughout the organization to refine and mature Ally’s security posture for cloud-based technologies and platforms, as well as identifying and maturing our application security capabilities.
• Consult with project teams to ensure that platform architecture has proper security controls in place (focused on Cloud Providers / SaaS engagements).
• Cloud Platform Security and Dev Sec Ops  / Pipeline Security.

• 7+ years of relevant experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field(s) of study or equivalent

• Demonstrated technical expertise in two or more technology areas (compute, storage, network, data, etc)
• Experience as a software developer with knowledge of automation, Infrastructure as Code and Dev Ops + CI/CD tools and processes
• Strong programming skills in Python, Terraform, and experience in frameworks like Tensor Flow, PyTorch.
• 5+ years of experience in information security practices, controls, and governance (CISSP preferred)
• 5+ years of experience as a technical resource within an IT organization (enterprise / matrixed organization preferred)
• 4+ years of experience with cloud platforms (operational experience preferred for AWS, Azure, GCP, etc)
• Demonstrate technical expertise/working knowledge of OWASP Top 10 LLM and AI Security.
• Builds partnerships, translates complexities into simple…