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Papa Johns · 15 hours ago

Principal Cyber Security Engineer

Atlanta, GA

Full-time

Hybrid

Lead/Staff

Papa John's is a leading pizza delivery company that values diversity as a competitive advantage. The Principal Cybersecurity Engineer serves as a technical expert and strategic leader, focusing on advanced threat defense, cloud security architecture, and incident response to enhance the organization's overall security posture.

Restaurants

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Architect, design, and implement advanced security capabilities across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid systems

Serve as the top engineering authority for Zero Trust architecture, cloud security architecture, detection engineering, and data protection strategies

Lead technical evaluations of new security technologies, tools, and platforms

Collaborate with enterprise architecture to integrate security into major programs and cloud transformations

Build and optimize SIEM, EDR, NDR, and cloud detection logic, rules, and automated responses

Lead advanced threat-hunting activities, identifying novel attack patterns and evolving adversary behaviors

Create detection frameworks aligned to MITRE ATT&CK, CIS Controls, and PCI-DSS requirements

Engineer telemetry pipelines, data collection standards, and monitoring strategies

Serve as the highest-level escalation point for major cyber incidents

Direct containment, forensics, eradication, and recovery operations

Conduct root cause analysis and design systemic improvements to prevent recurrence

Mentor and guide junior responders in advanced IR methodologies

Lead enterprise vulnerability management strategy, including prioritization models and compensating controls

Design hardened configurations, baselines, and secure CI/CD practices for cloud and infrastructure

Partner with product, cloud, and infrastructure teams to eliminate systemic risks

Ensure continuous measurement and reporting of vulnerability and risk posture

Architect security controls and guardrails across Azure, and GCP platforms

Design secure patterns for identity, networking, encryption, key management, and workload protection

Lead cloud threat modeling, secure design reviews, and red/blue collaboration activities

Support security automation at scale through scripting, IaC, and cloud-native services

Align engineering efforts with CIS Controls v8.1, PCI-DSS 4.0.1, NIST, ISO 27001, and regulatory requirements

Develop documentation, engineering standards, playbooks, and architecture artifacts

Provide expert evidence and technical representation to auditors, regulators, and internal governance boards

Qualification

Cloud Security ArchitectureZero Trust ArchitectureDetection EngineeringIncident ResponseVulnerability ManagementSecurity GovernanceThreat HuntingMentoringCollaboration

Required

Deep technical leadership across enterprise security domains, including advanced threat defense, cloud security architecture, detection engineering, vulnerability reduction, incident response, and Zero Trust enablement