Cloud Security Engineer - Azure Defender/Prisma Cloud/Cortex Cloud
Job Description
PNC Financial Services Group is seeking a Cloud Security Engineer to help own cloud security control activities and vendor relationships across Azure, AWS, and Palo Alto. This remote eligible role focuses on enabling CNAPP capabilities, producing recurring attestation evidence, and building Cloud Security dashboard views in Microsoft PowerBI.
Location
Pittsburgh, PA (remote)
Salary
USD 91,000 - 202,800 per year
This role is incentive eligible, with payments based on company, business, and/or individual performance.
Core Responsibilities
- Collaborate with partners who own technical controls provided through Cortex Cloud, including enabling partner testing and evaluation to assess fit and reduce tool sprawl.
- Own vendor relationships for Azure, AWS, and Palo Alto.
- Provide recurring attestation evidence as required for each Cloud Security Control.
- Review and analyze controls on a recurring basis to validate efficacy and propose modifications to support high standards.
- Identify gaps, determine whether new net controls are needed, and determine when existing controls are no longer applicable.
- Work with the Cloud Security team to automate attestation evidence, including assessing whether evidence currently obtained manually can be automated.
- Develop Cloud Security dashboard UI and views using Microsoft PowerBI.
- Provide statistics on dashboard usage.
- Engage customers to gather requirements and build a backlog of capabilities for the Cloud Security Roadmap.
- Apply security concepts as a subject matter expert and leverage technical knowledge and industry experience to design, build, and maintain technology solutions.
- Deliver project work aligned with timelines, working with architecture to translate high-level designs into implementation specifics such as sizing, integration details, onboarding, and operationalization.
- Evaluate patches, updates, and ongoing maintenance, and determine impacts to existing solutions when new standards are implemented.
- Use change control and other governance processes to ensure alignment of solutions.
- Develop detailed implementation, configuration, design, and engineering documentation, and build and implement solutions.
- Work with operational partners to support transition and day-to-day supportability.
- Provide engineering support for production environments and collaborate with other groups as required.
- Seek opportunities to broaden knowledge to complement specific subject matter expertise.
Required Qualifications
- Ability to work with ambiguity within the role.
- Comfort with creatively approaching responsibilities to move four key pillars of the role forward.
- Ability to build and maintain relationships.
- Ability to understand customer needs.
- Ability to influence partners to support adoption of CNAPP capabilities.
- Technical skills with a high-level understanding of CNAPP, controls, and dashboard development.
- Typically requires a university/college degree and 5+ years of industry-relevant experience.
- Specific certifications are often required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Working knowledge of at least one CNAPP: AWS, Azure, or Palo Alto.
Technologies
- Cortex Cloud
- CNAPPs
- AWS
- Azure
- Palo Alto
- Microsoft PowerBI
Preferred Skills
- Cybersecurity
- Data Security
- Endpoint Security
- Incident Response
- Information Security
- Network Security
- Quantum Computing
- Security Information
- Security Operations
- Vulnerability Management
Competencies
- Analytical Thinking
- Effective Communications
- Information Security Management
- Information Security Technologies
- IT Environment
- IT Standards, Procedures & Policies
- IT Systems Management
- Network and Internet Security
- Problem Solving
- Technical Troubleshooting
Remote Work Details
- This position is remote eligible. Work may be performed from a quiet, confidential space in a home location approved by PNC.
- This position may not be available in all geographic locations.
- Eligibility for remote work in select geographic locations is subject to approval by PNC.
- If approved, work must be conducted from a quiet, secure, and confidential home-based workspace.
- Occasional in-office participation may be required based on business needs.
Benefits
- Medical/prescription drug coverage with a Health Savings Account feature
- Dental and vision options
- Employee and spouse/child life insurance
- Short and long-term disability protection
- 401(k) with PNC match
- Pension and stock purchase plans
- Dependent care reimbursement account
- Back-up child/elder care
- Adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement
- Educational assistance, including select programs fully paid
- Robust wellness program with financial incentives
- Maternity and/or parental leave
- Up to 11 paid holidays each year
- 9 occasional absence days each year, unless otherwise required by law
- 15 to 25 vacation days each year, depending on career level
Disability Accommodations
If an accommodation is required to participate in the application process, contact [email protected] with subject line "accommodation request" and include name, job ID, and preferred method of contact. Applicants may also call 877-968-7762 and say "Workday" for accommodation assistance. All information provided will be kept confidential and used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)
PNC provides equal employment opportunity to qualified persons regardless of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or other categories protected by law. This position is subject to the requirements of Section 19 of the FDIA and, for any registered role, the SAFE Act and/or FINRA, which prohibit hiring of individuals with certain criminal history.
California Residents
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Application Window
Generally expected to be posted for two business days from 10/26/2026, though it may be longer with business discretion.
Education
Bachelors
Experience
Minimum 5 years