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Cloud Security Analyst
Overview: Lilly Cyber is seeking a skilled Cloud Security Analyst with a strong understanding of cloud security technologies, cloud security posture management (CSPM), and vulnerability management best practices. The ideal candidate will join the Threat Mitigations team and play a pivotal role in supporting threat mitigation activities across Lilly's cloud environments, including infrastructure, cloud-native applications, containers, and back-end pipeline management. This is an exciting position that will be dedicated to helping address cloud security risks. As part of a cross-functional team, this analyst will collaborate closely with a broad set of teams to ensure effective threat reduction. This is an excellent opportunity to grow and experience a wide array of different aspects of cloud cybersecurity while performing a meaningful and impactful role.
Key Responsibilities:
- Cloud Security & Threat Mitigation
- Assist Cyber Threat Mitigation Leads in identifying, assessing, and developing solutions to reduce security threats.
- Manage vulnerabilities through their full lifecycle: discovery, triage, ownership assignment, SLA tracking, and remediation verification.
- Continuously monitor multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) using CSPM platforms such as Wiz to identify misconfigurations, excessive permissions, and compliance drift.
- Disposition findings from scanning tools, validating issues, and producing clear remediation guidance for developers.
- Participate in the implementation of mitigation strategies across cloud workloads, containers, APIs, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Contribute to threat modeling activities for new and existing cloud architectures and applications.
- Support burndown of risk with the deployment of security tools through hands on involvement for hard to solve issues.
- Collaborate with diverse teams and stakeholders to promote security best practices.
- Support tracking and reporting of security mitigation metrics to provide visibility into risk remediation efforts.
- Integrate security tooling into CI/CD pipelines to enable shift-left practices and automated security checks during build process.
- Support pull request gating, secrets scanning, dependency scanning, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) scanning across engineering teams.
- Develop scripts to enable automation of scanning and triaging workflows.
Qualifications:
Required Skills:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
- 1-3 years of experience in cybersecurity, with a focus on cloud security and/or vulnerability management.
- Working knowledge of cloud security fundamentals across major cloud service providers (AWS, Azure, GCP), including identity and access management, network segmentation, encryption, and logging/monitoring.
- Hands-on experience with one or more Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) platforms (e.g., Wiz, Prisma Cloud, Orca Security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, or similar).
- Experience with vulnerability scanners and management platforms (e.g., Wiz, Qualys, Rapid7, or similar).
- Solid understanding of vulnerability management processes, including CVSS scoring, and risk-based prioritization.
- Familiarity with cloud-native architectures (containers, Kubernetes, serverless) and the security risks associated with each.
- Understanding of cloud IAM policies, least-privilege access, and authentication/authorization standards (OAuth 2.0, SAML) in cloud environments.
- General familiarity with security control technologies (firewalls, encryption, IAM, SIEM, and DLP).
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with a focus on identifying, addressing, and mitigating security risks.
- Ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment, fostering collaboration with developers, platform engineers, and security peers.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience integrating security tooling into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps) and familiarity with Git workflows and pull request gating.
- Working knowledge of container security (Docker, Kubernetes), image scanning, and IaC scanning (Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Comfort with at least one scripting language (Python, Bash, or PowerShell) for security automation.
- Multi-cloud experience across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including native security services (e.g., AWS Security Hub, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, GCP Security Command Center).
- Threat modeling experience using frameworks such as STRIDE, PASTA, or attack trees.
- Hands-on experience with security automation tools.
- Cybersecurity or cloud certifications: Security+, AWS Certified Security - Specialty, Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate, or a CSPM vendor certification (e.g., Wiz Certified Practitioner).
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