Cloud Engineer III

Company Description:

McDonald’s growth strategy, Accelerating the Arches, encompasses all aspects of our business as the leading global omni-channel restaurant brand. As the consumer landscape shifts we are using our competitive advantages to further strengthen our brand. One of our core growth strategies is to Double Down on the 3Ds (Delivery, Digital and Drive Thru). McDonald’s will accelerate technology innovation so 65M+ customers a day will experience a fast, easy experience, whether at one of our 25,000 and growing Drive thrus, through McDelivery, dine-in or takeaway.

McDonald’s Global Technology is here to power tomorrow’s feel-good moments.

That’s why you’ll find us at the forefront of transformative technology, exploring new and innovative ways to serve our millions of customers and spread happiness one delicious Hot Fudge Sundae-dipped fry at a time. Using AI, robotics and emerging tech, we’re digitizing the Golden Arches. Combine that with our unparalleled global scale, and we’re reshaping all areas of the business, industry and every community that is home to a McDonald’s restaurant. We face complex tech challenges every day. But that’s where our diverse and talented teams come in. They’re made up of the best and brightest from all over the globe, and they thrive in the space where feel-good meets fast-paced.

Check out the McDonald’s Global Technology Technical Blog to learn how technology and our global team are directly enabling the Accelerating the Arches strategy.

Department Overview

This opportunity is part of Global Technology Infrastructure & Operations (GTIO), where our mission is to deliver modern, relevant technology that supports the way McDonald’s works. We provide foundational technology products and services across Global Networking, Cloud, End User Computing, and IT Service Management. The Cloud Security Engineer III role is part of the Cloud Ecosystem team and reports to the Senior Manager of Cloud Security Platform Engineering.

This role engineers and operates enterprise cloud security platforms across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, with a primary focus on Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), vulnerability management, identity and entitlement risk, attack-path analysis, policy enforcement, platform integrations, and automated remediation. The position uses Infrastructure as Code (IaC), policy-as-code, APIs, scripting, and CI/CD integrations to embed security controls into cloud platform workflows. The role partners with Cloud Platform, DevOps/SRE, Application Security, Detection Engineering, Incident Response, Cybersecurity, and Risk teams to enable secure-by-design cloud adoption at enterprise scale.

Responsibilities & Accountabilities:

• Engineer and operate enterprise CNAPP and cloud security platform capabilities across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including CSPM, vulnerability management, identity and entitlement risk, attack-path analysis, data security, policy management, reporting, and automated remediation.
• Configure and maintain cloud security platform policies, connectors, APIs, service integrations, dashboards, and remediation workflows, with emphasis on scalable and measurable security outcomes.
• Implement cloud security controls across identity and access, workload identity, network security, data protection, encryption and key management, vulnerability management, logging and monitoring, threat detection, and incident response.
• Design and implement preventative and detective guardrails using AWS Organizations and Service Control Policies, Azure Policy, Google Cloud Organization Policy, and equivalent cloud-native controls.
• Build automated remediation capabilities that prioritize systemic, platform-level fixes over one-time resource remediation.
• Develop reusable Terraform modules, policy-as-code, APIs, and scripts that deploy and operate cloud security controls consistently across enterprise environments.
• Integrate security checks and policy enforcement into CI/CD workflows such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, or equivalent platforms.
• Integrate cloud security platforms with SIEM/SOAR, ticketing, asset management, vulnerability management, and incident response processes.
• Analyze cloud security findings and attack paths to identify root causes, control gaps, and risk-reduction opportunities; translate findings into prioritized engineering work.
• Support cloud security incidents, investigations, and response activities by providing platform expertise, telemetry, and remediation support.
• Build prototypes and proofs of concept to validate emerging cloud security capabilities and demonstrate business and risk-reduction value.
• Serve as a cloud security subject matter expert and provide technical guidance, standards, documentation, and mentoring to engineers and partner teams.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in cloud security engineering, cloud security platform engineering, or cloud security architecture across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Hands-on experience engineering or operating an enterprise CNAPP or cloud security platform such as Wiz, Palo Alto Prisma Cloud, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Orca Security, or an equivalent platform.
• Demonstrated experience with CSPM, vulnerability management, cloud configuration risk, identity and entitlement risk, attack-path analysis, security policy development, platform integrations, reporting, and automated remediation.
• Strong knowledge of cloud security architecture and controls across IAM, workload identity, network security, data protection, encryption, secrets management, vulnerability management, logging and monitoring, threat detection, and incident response.
• Experience designing and operating security guardrails using AWS Organizations and Service Control Policies, Azure Policy, Google Cloud Organization Policy, or equivalent cloud-native policy capabilities.
• Hands-on Infrastructure as Code experience, particularly Terraform, including reusable modules and deployment of cloud security controls.
• Experience integrating security controls into CI/CD pipelines, including automated testing, policy enforcement, and deployment guardrails.
• Experience developing security automation through APIs and scripting using Python, PowerShell, Bash, Go, or an equivalent language.
• Ability to analyze cloud security findings, identify systemic control gaps, and design scalable platform-level remediation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated analytical, problem-solving, documentation, and mentoring capabilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience administering enterprise CNAPP platform, including policy configuration, connectors, APIs, automation, dashboards, reporting, and remediation workflows.
• Experience designing cloud security capabilities across multi-cloud environments spanning AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Experience with cloud-native security services such as AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, and Inspector; Microsoft Defender for Cloud; and Google Security Command Center.
• Experience with policy-as-code technologies such as Open Policy Agent (OPA), Rego, Terraform policy frameworks, or equivalent capabilities.
• Experience securing Kubernetes and container platforms, including image vulnerability management, cluster configuration, and security policy enforcement.
• Experience integrating cloud security data with SIEM/SOAR platforms, including Google SecOps, Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, or equivalent platforms.
• CCSK, CCSP, AWS Certified Security - Specialty, Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate, Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer, or an equivalent cloud security certification.

Experience

• 5+ years of cloud security engineering, cloud security platform engineering, or security architecture experience supporting enterprise AWS, Azure, or GCP environments, with a bachelor’s degree; or 3+ years of relevant experience with a master’s degree.
• Demonstrated experience using Terraform/IaC, CI/CD pipelines, APIs, and scripting to automate the deployment and operation of cloud security controls.
• Experience authoring and maintaining architecture documents, design specifications, test plans, runbooks, and operational protocols in enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership and mentor engineers while partnering across Cloud Platform, DevOps/SRE, Cybersecurity, and Risk teams.

Compensation

Bonus Eligible: YES

Long - Term Incentive: YES

Benefits Eligible: YES

Salary Range

The expected salary range for this role is $141,662.00 - $177,077.00 per year

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we may also consider your experience, and other job-related factors.

Additional Information:

Benefits eligible: This position offers health and welfare benefits, including but not limited to comprehensive health insurance, which includes medical, prescription drug, mental health, dental and vision coverage, as well as, life insurance.

Bonus eligible: This position is eligible for a bonus, calculated based on individual and company performance.

Long term Incentive eligible: This position is eligible for stock or other equity grants pursuant to McDonald’s long-term incentive plan.

McDonald’s is an equal opportunity employer committed to the diversity of our workforce. We promote an inclusive work environment that creates feel-good moments for everyone. McDonald’s provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities as part of the application or hiring process or to perform the essential functions of their job. If you need assistance accessing or reading this job posting or otherwise feel you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process, please contact [email protected]. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

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