Cloud Security Engineer II

The Tripadvisor Group connects people to experiences worth sharing and aims to be the worlds most trusted source for travel and experiences. We leverage our brands technology and capabilities to connect our global audience with partners through rich content travel guidance and two-sided marketplaces for experiences accommodations restaurants and other travel categories. The subsidiaries of Tripadvisor Inc. (Nasdaq: TRIP) include a portfolio of travel brands and businesses including Tripadvisor Viator and TheFork

We are seeking a Cloud Security Engineer II to build automate and scale security guardrails across our cloud environment (primary focus on AWS with secondary exposure to Azure and GCP). In this mid-level role you will move beyond basic alert monitoring to actively design security controls embed security into CI/CD pipelines and partner with DevOps and engineering teams to ensure secure-by-default infrastructure.

Location: Needham - MA or Remote - United States

What Youll Do

• Cloud Infrastructure Guardrails: Design deploy and enforce scalable cloud security controls IAM least-privilege policies and encryption standards across multi-account AWS environments.
• DevSecOps Integration: Embed automated security tools (IaC scanning SAST secret detection) directly into CI/CD pipelines to catch vulnerabilities pre-deployment.
• Security Automation: Develop automated detection and remediation workflows using Python Bash or Go alongside IaC tools (Terraform CloudFormation).
• Container & Workload Security: Implement and maintain security practices for containerized workloads (Docker Kubernetes/EKS) and serverless architectures.
• Posture Management & Triage: Manage CSPM/CNAPP platforms investigate high-priority alerts and reduce noise through automated risk scoring and alert tuning.
• Threat Modeling & Reviews: Conduct architectural security reviews and threat modeling for new cloud features infrastructure changes and third-party integrations.
• Incident Escalation: Act as a secondary point of contact for cloud security incidents assisting with forensic collection root-cause analysis and post-mortem actions.

Skills & Experience

• Experience: 35 years of dedicated hands-on experience in cloud security DevSecOps or infrastructure security engineering.
• Cloud Expertise: Deep working knowledge of core AWS security services (IAM GuardDuty Security Hub KMS CloudTrail Organizations).
• IaC & Code: Strong proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred) and at least one scripting language (Python Go or Bash).
• Container & Pipeline Security: Practical experience securing Kubernetes/EKS and configuring CI/CD security scanners (e.g. GitHub Actions GitLab CI).
• Networking & Identity: Solid understanding of cloud networking (VPCs Transit Gateways WAF DNS) and identity management (OAuth2 OIDC SAML).
• Compliance & Frameworks: Familiarity with mapping cloud controls to industry frameworks (CIS Benchmarks NIST CSF SOC 2).
• Certifications (Preferred): AWS Certified Security Specialty Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) CCSP or equivalent.
• Experience in travel experiences or marketplace businesses.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation packages (routinely benchmarked against the latest industry data) including base salary and annual bonuses
• Work your way with flexibility to suit your lifestyle. Tripadvisor Group takes a remote-friendly approach to collaboration across a worldwide team with the option to join on-site as often as youd like or as required by your team.
• Flexible schedule. Work-life balance is ingrained in our culture by design. Trust and accountability make it work.
• Donation matching. Give back Give more! We match qualifying charitable donations annually.
• Tuition assistance. Want to level up your career We love to hear it! Receive annual support for qualified programs.
• Lifestyle benefit. An annual benefit to spend on yourself. Use it on travel wellness or whatever suits you.
• Travel perks. We believe that travel is employee development so we provide discounts and more.
• Employee assistance program. Were here for you with resources and programs to help you through lifes challenges.
• Health benefits. We offer great coverage and competitive premiums.
• Generous referral scheme. Help us grow and be rewarded with generous awards for referring successful candidates.

Our Cultural Pillars:

Traveler first

We exist to create value for our customer the traveler. We enable our suppliers and partners to unlock this value. Their collective behaviors and insights are what drives us.

Execution is our edge

We act fast experiment learn from failure iterate and improve the solutions of tomorrow across every aspect of our business. Our execution is agile data-driven prioritised and built to scale. We assume no problem is someone elses problem and finish what can be done today knowing tomorrow will bring fresh challenges.

We succeed together

The best outcomes are driven by empathic humble and diverse subject matter experts working toward shared goals. We collaborate relentlessly challenge assumptions give actionable feedback and set each other up for success through empowered teams with a clear charter. We transparently take ownership of our growth individually and as a team. We celebrate the quality of our effort our learnings and our collective achievements.

The salary range for this role is $135000 -$155000. This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. An employees pay position within the wage range will be based on several factors including but limited to relevant education qualifications certifications experience skills seniority geographic location performance and business or organizational needs. This compensation range may also be modified in the future.

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