Application and Cloud Security Lead

About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

11

Role Summary

The Application & Cloud Security Lead will serve as a key security leader within the S&P Global Energy Division BISO team, responsible for coordinating security initiatives across application, cloud, and AI-enabled environments. This role directly supports the protection of applications, data, systems, and reputation by proactively managing cyber risk, strengthening resilience and embedding security into everything we do.

The successful candidate will partner with technology, product, engineering, cloud, risk, compliance, and business stakeholders to ensure security is integrated into architecture, delivery, operations, and innovation. The role will focus on security architecture reviews, application security governance, cloud security enforcement, AI security oversight, risk remediation, and alignment with enterprise cybersecurity standards.

This position requires a hands-on security leader who can translate cybersecurity requirements into practical controls, influence engineering teams, guide secure design decisions, and drive measurable improvements in cyber resilience across the Energy Division.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate application, cloud, and AI security initiatives across the S&P Global Energy Division in alignment with S&P Global's cyber risk management objectives.

• Conduct security architecture reviews for applications, APIs, cloud platforms, data flows, integrations, and AI-enabled solutions to identify risks and recommend secure design improvements.

• Partner with engineering, product, architecture, cloud, and business teams to embed security requirements into solution design, development, deployment, and operations.

• Enforce application security controls, including secure coding practices, vulnerability remediation, authentication, authorization, secrets management, dependency security, and software supply chain risk management.

• Oversee cloud security control implementation across public cloud environments, including identity and access management, network security, encryption, logging, monitoring, workload protection, and secure configuration.

• Review and assess AI and machine learning use cases for security risks, including data leakage, prompt injection, model exposure, access control, third-party AI risk, and misuse scenarios.

• Track, prioritize, and drive remediation of application, cloud, and AI security findings, exceptions, and risk acceptances in partnership with accountable technology owners.

• Support cyber risk assessments, compliance reviews, audit requests, and security reporting related to Energy Division applications, cloud services, and AI-enabled platforms.

• Develop and maintain metrics, dashboards, and executive-level reporting to communicate security posture, risk trends, remediation progress, and key security initiatives.

• Serve as a trusted security advisor and liaison between the Energy Division and Enterprise cybersecurity teams, promoting secure-by-design practices and consistent adoption of security standards.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

• 5-8+ years experience in cybersecurity, with a strong focus on application security, cloud security, security architecture, and/or technology risk management.

• Experience conducting security architecture reviews for applications, APIs, cloud platforms, data platforms, and enterprise technology solutions.

• Experience with DevSecOps, CI/CD security, container security, Kubernetes security, infrastructure-as-code scanning, secrets management, and software supply chain security.

• Experience with cloud security tools such as CSPM, CWPP, CNAPP, SIEM, vulnerability management platforms, container scanners, and identity governance tools.

• Familiar with AI security concepts such as prompt injection, model access control, sensitive data exposure, model monitoring, adversarial testing, AI red teaming, and third-party AI risk.

• Experience working with public cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.

• Experience partnering with cross-functional stakeholders including technology, product, risk, compliance, privacy, legal, and business teams.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical security risks to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Ability to prioritise risks, influence remediation, and drive outcomes in a complex enterprise environment.

• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, SABSA, CCSK, Cloud Vendor Certifications (e.g. AWS Certified Security — Specialty, AWS Certified Solution Architect, Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer) or equivalent credentials.

What’s In It For You?

Our Mission:

Advancing Essential Intelligence.

Our People:

We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Our Values:
Integrity, Discovery, Partnership

Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.

Benefits:

We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.

Our benefits include: 

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.

• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.

• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.

• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.

• Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.

• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.

For more information on benefits by country visit: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries

Global Hiring and Opportunity at S&P Global:

At S&P Global, we are committed to fostering a connected and engaged workplace where all individuals have access to opportunities based on their skills, experience, and contributions. Our hiring practices emphasize fairness, transparency, and merit, ensuring that we attract and retain top talent. By valuing different perspectives and promoting a culture of respect and collaboration, we drive innovation and power global markets.

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Equal Opportunity Employer

S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law.  Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.  

If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: [email protected] and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.  
 
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