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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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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