Principal Security Engineer

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Principal Security Engineer

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Principal Security Engineer – India – Cybersecurity Engineering:

As a Principal Security Engineer, your leadership will encompass safeguarding infrastructure, network, cloud, and AI-driven systems across Cornerstone's enterprise environments. This role demands not only vision and expertise to design, implement, and continually enhance security measures for data centers, networks, cloud platforms, and artificial intelligence assets, but also foresight to address emerging risks unique to AI technologies. You will work closely with technology teams, leadership, and external partners to advance Cornerstone's global and regional security strategy, ensure robust protection for AI solutions, maintain compliance, and foster a culture of security innovation throughout the organization.

In this role you will..

• Lead the development and ongoing enhancement of security architectures and frameworks for infrastructure, network, and cloud environments, ensuring rigorous alignment with Cornerstone's global standards and India-specific requirements.
• Design secure cloud solutions, integrating advanced security technologies such as identity and access management, encryption, monitoring, and zero-trust models for multi-cloud and hybrid scenarios.
• Architect and implement comprehensive security controls for data centers, network perimeters, cloud platforms, and virtualized environments, leveraging industry best practices.
• Direct vulnerability management programs, including assessments, penetration testing, and seamless remediation for both on-premises and cloud-based assets.
• Proactively monitor and respond to threats across infrastructure, network, and cloud environments, ensuring swift detection, response, and recovery.
• Ensure compliance with regional and global policies governing infrastructure, network, and cloud security, facilitating proper data protection, segmentation, and secure access.
• Offer technical leadership and strategic guidance to infrastructure, network, and cloud teams, promoting excellence in design, deployment, and operational security.
• Engage with external partners, auditors, and regulatory authorities to maintain robust security standards throughout Cornerstone's technology stack.
• Develop and deliver training programs to increase awareness of infrastructure, network, and cloud security best practices across the organization.
• Evangelize security across all teams and influence change where needed.
• Implement and maintain technical solutions to support compliance frameworks requirements including SSAE18, FedRAMP and ISO 27001.
• Must be able to provide hands-on support for a wide range of security technologies including, but not limited to: SEIM, IDS, Vulnerability Scanners, CNAPP.

You've got what it takes if you have…

• Bachelor's degree in an Information Technology related field of study or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years of experience in system, network and/or cloud security.
• Experience with network firewalls and reviewing configurations and ACLs.
• Experience working on security responsibilities for SaaS or PaaS solutions, preferably in AWS. (Experience with GCP and Azure is a plus).
• Experience creating solutions in C#, Python, Node.JS, or Go, and Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation).
• Experience with CI/CD practices and tools (Git, Jenkins) and integrating security solutions into CI/CD pipeline's.
• Experience working with, reviewing, or implementing controls within major security frameworks (e.g. FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, SOC2 Type 2).
• Self-motivation and the ability to work under minimal supervision are a must.
• Excellent at multitasking, and open to constant learning.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills; outstanding oral and written communication skills.

Extra dose of awesome if you...

• Have applicable IT security certifications (CISSP, AWS Security, CISM, etc.).
• Designed and implemented security controls in a cloud-first environment.
• Exposure to Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) processes and security controls.
• Experience implementing security controls in a microservices cloud environment.

Our Culture:

Our mission is to empower people, businesses and communities. A culture created less by what we do and more by who we are. When people ask what our team is about, we point to our core values: champion customer success, bring our best, achieve together, get stuff done, and innovate every day. We're always on the lookout for new, curious and capable people who can help us achieve our goal and we are seeking diversity in the people who join our team. We want to make sure that our company reflects the demographic of our customers, clients, and the communities in which we operate. So if you want to work for a friendly, global, inclusive and innovative company, we'd love to meet you

What We Do:

Cornerstone is a premier people development company. We believe people can achieve anything when they have the right development and growth opportunities. We offer organizations the technology, content, expertise and specialized focus to help them realize the potential of their people. Featuring comprehensive recruiting, personalized learning, modern training content, development-driven performance management and holistic employee data management and insights, Cornerstone's people development solutions are successfully used by more than 100 million+ people in 180+ countries and in nearly 50 languages.

Cornerstone takes special care to ensure the security and privacy of the data of its users.

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