Principal Network Security Engineer

Position Overview

We seek a talented and motivated individual who will strategize and support opportunities to further mature Autodesk’s security posture on the Network Security Team. This role will be responsible for all day-to-day activities for the Network Security & Trust team at Autodesk. 

You will execute the strategic vision and direction for the program, build and develop device guidelines, standards, and policies. Champion trust efforts through cross-functional collaboration with stakeholders. You will evolve our security posture in line with industry-recognized practices, frameworks, and regulations. Your efforts will be critical to ensuring trust outcomes for our customers and the company. You will collaborate with leaders and engineers to improve security.   

The ideal candidate will have experience driving and implementing security strategies and practices at scale across products, enterprise IT, and hybrid cloud in a fast-moving dynamic environment.   

This position can be based out of our Bengaluru office location or a home office location.  

 Responsibilities

• Act as the subject matter expert for network security solutions and cloud platforms at Autodesk such as AWS, Azure and GCP

• Develop standards, design patterns, provide guidance for managing and securing network security solutions 

• Discover, remediate and validate security issues, vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across cloud and data center infrastructure  

• Provide security best practices and guidelines for network security solutions  

• Provide guidance for overall alignment of security tools and services to monitor or provide visibility for networks, endpoints, and workloads in the cloud  

• Develop enforcements to secure network security solutions and cloud platforms by default e.g., Infrastructure as code enforcements  

• Provide Security guidance to design and operate scalable processes to provision network access and maintain least-privilege  

• Partner closely with IT Operations and Trust stakeholders  

Minimum Qualifications

• 12+ years’ experience securing network security solutions and services in public cloud infrastructure (AWS and Azure)

• Detailed understanding of cloud and network security  

• Experience deploying and tuning security tools to address threats and lower risk such as vulnerability scanners, static analyzers, web application firewalls, IDS/IPS, endpoint security monitoring, etc. 

• Knowledge of networking and web protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS, REST), and the ability to analyze traffic to find anomalies 

• Ability to program/script for automations in at least one language; Python, GO, JavaScript, Bash, or PowerShell  

• Highly technical with both tactical and strategic capabilities, including Network Security, Cloud Security, Platform Security, and Detection & Response  

• Emphasis on a data-driven, decision-making mindset  

• Strong written and verbal communication skills  

• Experience working with distributed teams and other cross-functional stakeholders  

• Highly collaborative in a fast-paced team environment

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