How to become a Senior Cloud Security Engineer?
Cloud Security Podcast1 Marras 2023

How to become a Senior Cloud Security Engineer?

Nick McLaren is a Senior Cloud Security Engineer at an Enterprise and he transitioned to this role from a Cloud Security Engineer at a Startup. On this episode he shared with us, how the roles differ between an enterprise and startup, what skills you require to become a senior cloud security engineer and what a day look like in a life of cloud security engineer. Thank you to our sponsors for the this episode Vanta - You can check them out at vanta.com/cloud Snyk - Check them out at Snyk.io/csp

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Spotify TimeStamp for Interview Question

(00:00) Introduction

(02:15) A message from our sponsor

(03:07) A bit about Nick

(04:30) Startup vs Enterprise

(09:12) Senior cloud security engineer

(11:34) Communicating with the business

(13:18) Agile Methodology

(17:03) A day in the life of cloud security engineer

(19:33) Knowing multi-cloud

(20:43) Learning Azure from AWS

(21:50) Dealing with Third parties

(24:36) you dont need to know everything

(25:51) Getting into Cloud Security

(27:55) Knowing coding and terraform

(29:37) The Fun Questions

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