How to become a Senior Cloud Security Engineer?

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Published 2023-10-15

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.

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Questions asked:
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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All Comments (9)

@CloudSecurityPodcast 4 months ago

If you enjoyed this video - you should check our DevOps & Cloud Security Architect Interviews link here Become a Cloud Security Architect in 2023 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnmCGMA2uKs Zero to DevOps- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxDPq3sYzs0 Checkout our FREE & Paid Cloud Security Training at www.cloudsecuritybootcamp.com/
@ameyrasam3872 9 months ago

How to start my journey in cloud security. Mostly in Google Cloud. I am working in Accenture as a Security delivery analyst mostly working on DAST,SAST, THREAT MODELLING.
@rahulsays 9 months ago

Me and my team recently got laid off from the cloud Security Engineer position; I am master in GCP. But I agree with Nick to go multi-cloud ASAP. This is the market demand. I am not seign roles in GCP for Security or GRC.
@Gregory8732 9 months ago

Great interview, thank you both!
@nelsond5361 7 months ago

Great interview 👍. I learned a lot. Am a rookie in IT am studying to get the CCSE cert from EC council. I will need a lot of help learning the python and teraform.
@craigheard2504 9 months ago

Thank you.
@ike9 7 months ago

Respect to this guy. I admire his journey as im working on a similar journey myself. Question, is he remote based in Atlanta as Enterprise is headquarted in St. Louis?
@sOCcYBER 11 days ago

amazing content! but the host should have a better camera or connection, come one, its 2024!!