Cloud Security Engineer Axa Dcp

**Job Description**:
**Cloud Security Engineer, AXA DCP**

Location: Barcelona - Spain

AXA’s Management Committee is driving a unique strategic initiative - Digital Commercial Platform (DCP) - designed to transform AXA’s value proposition. Through DCP, AXA will serve existing and new clients and partners through an evolving business model, where the focus is on risk prediction, prevention and management.

AXA DCP relies on creating a platform of AXA’s risk insights, risk management, and risk prevention capabilities to enhance and support our service offering to commercial clients and third parties. End users will be able to access a broad selection of data built on existing or developing AXA assets. The platform will also create value by monetizing unique capabilities and services for our customers, aggregating, and delivering insights from unique data sets with external partners, and fostering end-customer relationships in alignment with brokers.

AXA DCP aims to:

- Improve our underwriting pricing and claims capabilities across the commercial lines book of business of AXA Group
- Create a platform for risk management and prevention services
- Build an ecosystem of business partners

**What you’ll be doing**

What will your essential responsibilities include?
- Act as a trusted advisor for solution architects and development teams providing approval and guidance on secure practices and patterns
- Conduct security assessments and audits, identifying potential risks in software and cloud blueprints and proposing improvements
- Design, maintain and integrate security into the CI/CD pipeline, automating security checks and testing processes following the principle “Shift Left”
- Engage with stakeholders (especially Technology office, Product Office and data management team to facilitate and manage resolution, with tracking of work to report on progress
- Foster effective partnerships with other teams (internal and external) to enhance the organization's overall security posture and minimize potential threats and to identify threats, vulnerabilities, and control improvements
- Support the stakeholders to enable informed decision making
- Design, implement and improve secure coding related practices, processes and standards
- Collaborate with development and operations teams to implement security controls and best practices in the development and deployment processes
- Participate in development and continuous improvement of security processes, policies, standards and other governing documents and ensure compliance.
- Participate in and support delivery of security audits, threat modelling and assessments and remediation of findings
- Participate to AXA DCP Architecture Review Board and other governances bodies/meetings related to Security activity
- Assist in the investigation and resolution of security incidents in Production and Non Production environments
- Define and implement Infrastructure as Code patterns and practices using Terraform in the context of AWS

You will report to the Chief Security Officer, AXA DCP.

**What you’ll bring**

We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:
**Required Skills and Abilities**:

- General skills
- Experience in IT security engineering, cloud security engineering or related roles (offensive security, blue team, red team, etc)
- knowledgeable with some hands-on experience on everything related to security on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Experience with security architecture, Cloud technologyand threat modelling
- Self-driven qualities and able to work independently with a high degree of autonomy, as well as part of a team
- You are fluent in English
- Good communication (verbal/written) and influencing skills, with an ability to manage internal and external relationships up to senior levels of management
- Will be a plus:- Security Certifications (e.g., CISM, CISSP)
- Cloud Certifications (e.g. AWS Solutions Architect level Associate or higher, AWS Security Speciality)
- Auditing and Compliance Certifications (e.g., CISA)
- Experience with machine learning tools and model

2. Cloud Security (Ideally in AWS)
- Robust technical understanding of Cloud Security using serverless and containerized architectures
- Significant knowledge on implementing tools and processes to improve automation and potential vulnerabilities and risks
- Experience using Infrastructure as Code engines, such as Terraform, in cloud environments

3. Application development
- Experience on relational and NoSQL databases
- Experience on secure software development practices

**Who WE are**

AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don’t just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.

How? By combining a comprehensive and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to de