Role Profile: Cloud Security Engineer

December 23rd, 2022

Tracy Woo Principal Analyst

Andras Cser Vice President, Principal Analyst

With contributors:

Lauren Nelson , Arthur Ross , Demi Starks

Summary

As companies continue to prioritize the cloud for their infrastructure, their interactions with it grow more complex — as does its threat landscape. Cloud security engineers create detailed policies and artifacts to build security into developer and operations tasks, as well as manage the overall cloud security strategy. This role requires a strong background in security and cloud-related technologies, and candidates will need to communicate effectively to a wide audience of varying technological expertise. This role profile lays out the responsibilities, qualifications, and other job components that make up the cloud security engineer position.

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