AVP, Cloud Security Automation Engineer (L11)

📋 Description

• • The AVP, Cloud Security Automation Engineer (L11) role at Synchrony Financial is critical to strengthening and scaling the company’s cloud security posture by embedding security into infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines, ensuring secure-by-design and secure-by-default cloud deployments across enterprise environments.
• • Day to day, the engineer will build and maintain cloud security automation using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, and Jenkins; automate AWS security compliance enforcement; implement detection and remediation for cloud misconfigurations; develop reusable security templates and frameworks; and partner with DevOps and application teams to provide security guidance, review architectures, and document standards and runbooks.
• • Synchrony Financial is a premier consumer financial services company recognized as one of India’s Best Companies to Work for, with a strong focus on innovation, diversity, and employee well-being, operating within a robust Information Security (InfoSec) function that protects enterprise assets and customer data through proactive risk management and security integration.
• • In this role, the individual will deepen expertise in cloud security automation, influence enterprise-wide security governance, gain leadership experience in guiding cross-functional teams, and contribute to scalable, compliant cloud infrastructure that supports business innovation while reducing cyber risk.