IT Security Cloud Security Engineer

Location : Madrid, Spain (Remote or Hybrid About Pearson : Our purpose : About English Language Learning (ELL) : We aspire to become the world's leading destination to learn and improve English language skills.

Are you passionate about planning, implementing, upgrading, or monitoring security measures for the protection of Company systems? We are thrilled to announce a great opportunity to join our team as a Cloud Security Engineer. As a member of the cloud security team, you will be responsible for maintaining and elevating the security across our environments. Well versed with Cloud Security standards, SDLC and DevSecOps processes and tools.

Serve as a subject matter expert for security for applications and processes.

Be the single point of contact for Security Central team.

Collaborate with security leadership, engineering, and compliance to execute security strategies.

Evaluate new technologies and tools that will impact organization security.

Assess our current cloud security and propose improvements or solutions across Pearson infrastructure.

Assist other teams in solving security issues in a manner that complies with business requirements and best practices.

Drive adoption of security and privacy policies and procedures across ELL products.

Provide, when required, security training and guidance for developer teams.

Review existing applications and software to identify security improvements.

Collaborate with CISO organisation in developing and refining product security best practices.

Maintain documentation of application security controls.

Provide DevOps with security oversight and design guidance.

Integrate security into the development lifecycle of software (SDLC).

Previous experience working in an application security role.

Thorough understanding of cloud and network security and web protocols.

Knowledge of modern cloud technology components and deployment patterns.

Experience deploying services in a multi-cloud environment – AWS, GCP, Azure.

Experience using security tools such as : Snyk, Insight AppSec (Rapid7), Qualys Guard, Insight Cloud Sec (Divvy Cloud), Irius Risk.

Experience with vulnerability scanners, static analysers, IDS / IPS, firewalls, and endpoint security monitoring.

Experience developing software with object-oriented languages.

Experience with database programming and administration.

Communication skills, being able to elevate the work to senior management and influence senior stakeholders.

Discounts on books and access to digital content and other development and training.

If you live in Madrid, you will be able to enjoy our brand-new office because we have a remote / hybrid working model policy in place!

Flexible working : Pearson is committed to hybrid working practices and has adopted flexible remote and virtual working.

Please submit an updated CV and cover letter (optional) in English.

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