Principal Security Scientist, Cyber Operations

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen. 

We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

The Opportunity  

Adobe’s Cyber Operations team runs our most critical processes to ensure cybersecurity across the enterprise and our products. We are responsible for protecting our enterprise and cloud infrastructure, operating all systems and processes, including our central cybersecurity data lake, that detect intrusions and respond to security incidents. We are looking for a seasoned technical leader who will work closely with the VP, Cybersecurity Operations, to develop the technical strategy across each of these functions.  This individual knows how product and IT teams think, and can communicate risk and solutions to them effectively, and is a skilled collaborator and problem solver. The ideal candidate has expertise and influence that extends beyond Adobe and is recognized by peers in industry &/or community, and will help us move the needle for security. 

What you’ll do here  

• Identify security gaps in cloud permissions, monitoring, and security-specific infrastructure configurations and collaborate with engineering teams to strategically craft solutions that mitigate those issues. 

• Identify security gaps in Identity and Access Management (IAM) and collaborate with key stakeholders to strategically craft solutions. 

• Drive technical security excellence across multiple functional within Cyber Operations. 

• Help foster a culture of security engineering innovation and excellence across Cyber Operations. 

• Partner closely with Security Architecture to provide input on cloud-agnostic architectural solutions that address security at scale and account for emerging threats and sophisticated attackers.  

• Collaborate with security tool vendors and understand how they may help Adobe in the long term. 

• Build technical security presentations and engage with teams across the company to cultivate broad understanding of security. 

• Mentor and coach other technical contributors and aspiring principal scientists.  

• Make broad consumption of strategic concepts possible by distilling complex topics into a form that can be more readily shared with more junior engineers.  

• Advise and provide guidance to senior management on advanced technical issues.  

• As a domain specialist, be responsible for leading multi-functional working groups or initiatives or provide consulting/advice to other departments or groups within the company.  

• Provide critical analysis of issues for continuous improvement of technology, process and productivity.  

• Advocate adoption of new technologies and standards to the broader Adobe developer community.  

• Question the status quo in pursuit of technological i