Manager, Application Engineer, Cyber Security

The Manager, Application Engineering, Cyber Security is responsible for leading the Application Security team, which is responsible for developing automation and tooling to identify, manage and monitor security risks at scale, integrating security requirements into products and processes, proactively performing security assessments to detect and prevent security vulnerabilities, conducting trainings to raise developer awareness of security best practices, performing security testing before release, and partnering closely with our development teams to produce innovative and secure solutions.

The Manager, Application Engineering, Cyber Security has broad and deep technical experience in a wide variety of enterprise technologies and is the subject matter expert (SME) for concepts behind security controls and how they apply to the application engineering, configuration and deployment lifecycles. This individual provides hands-on technical leadership, e.g. design, code review, quality assurance, both to the security engineering team and collaboratively to cross-organization engineering teams. Accountable for identifying key security risks, as well as targeted and prioritized planning and implementation of respective mitigations.

The incumbent must have a service-oriented mentality, a high sense of ownership of the problems and requests assigned, a focus on managing and resolving issues in alignment with the SLAs, policies and standards, establishing and maintaining communication with technology customers to keep them updated with status of their requests, initiating and performing changes on production systems and proactively escalating any issues that cannot be resolved within the established timeframes.

Additional insights, experience or background in any of the following are also of great value: CIS, NIST, ISO27001, Data Protection, Software Engineering, Static Code Analysis, Dynamic Code Analysis, Penetration Testing, Containers, MicroServices, CI/CD Pipelines, Agile, Project Planning, Team Leadership and Management, Git, Jira, Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Security (AWS, Azure, GCP) and design, process maturity, and other related focuses. Primary Accountabilities

Technical (40%)

Provide hands-on technical leadership on multiple fronts, e.g. architecture, design, code review, quality assurance, directly to the security engineering team and indirectly to other engineering and/or product teams

Establish and drive adoption of design, standards, documentation and coding best practices within the security engineering team

Define, evangelize and drive security engineering best practices and improvements across organizational boundaries

Collaborate on engineering-wide initiatives as a member of the broader engineering leadership team

Drive compliance through evangelizing, partnership, and education, as well as a robust program of third-party/vendor, application, and data security reviews, threat modeling, proactive auditing and penetration testing

Develop policy, standards and other relevant documentation to guide the practical implementation of application security best practices

Evaluate client needs, coordinate design for a solution, and clearly communicate the value proposition of complex and highly technical subjects.

Design systems characterized by managed levels of risk, manageable business and technical complexity and meaningful impact; works with well-understood technology and identifies appropriate patterns.

Strategic (20%)

Integrate and collaborate with business and engineering organizations to facilitate early identification and implementation of security standards and compliance.

Proactive identification of security engineering goals and objectives, development of implementation plans to address targeted and prioritized threat mitigations.

Drive engineering innovation by producing quality code and artifacts for inter-team collaboration

Operational (20%)

Work with application development teams to ensure secure software development lifecycle (S-SDLC) implementation and validation.

Educate and train product and engineering teams.

Evaluate client needs, coordinate design for a solution, and clearly communicate the value proposition of complex and highly technical cyber security subjects.

Schedule and manage prioritized pipeline of engineering objectives and tasks and ensure timely delivery, while managing technical project risks

Train new team members on documented guidelines

Leadership (20%)

Manage and grow a team of world-class application security engineers to deliver high impact projects on schedule with high-quality

Accountable for staffing projections, year-end performance reviews, salary planning and administration, employee development and mentoring, and promoting a culture of open and honest communication, partnership, continuous improvement and opportunities.

Responsible for measuring and improving technical competence of team members.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science, related field or relevant experience

10+ years of related work experience in security engineering, systems engineering and/or DevOps with a focus on information security o r any equivalent combination of experience and training/certification that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to complete the major responsibilities/essential functions of the position

Proven ability to lead engineering teams, particular within an Agile environment

Experience with regulatory and compliance frameworks, such as HIPAA, PCI-DSS, CCPA, GDPR

Certifications preferred. CISSP, Security +, CISM, GSLC

Experience in web, application, server and endpoint security

Strong experience in distributed platform development security and design

In-depth knowledge of application, platform and system security standards and best practices (OWASP, CIS, etc.)

Foundational experience in core information security principles and concepts (HTTPS, TLS, OAuth, etc.)

Experience with industry tools and technologies such as Burp, Metasploit, etc.

Strong knowledge of common languages such as Python, GO, JavaScript, Java, etc.

Solid understanding of public cloud security deployment and implementation issues (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Strong knowledge of web application firewall deployment, configuration, tuning and associated infrastructure components

Understanding of audits and standards requirements such ISO 27001, PCI DSS, SOC 1 & 2, etc.

Proven expertise in enterprise-grade and web scale security solutions

Exceptional oral and written communication skills

Specific Technical Skills Needed:

Security and Risk Assessment

Aware of Security governance principles and able to apply them to the enterprise

Understands the legal and regulatory Issues relevant to the enterprise and does not place the enterprise at risk.

Security Engineering

Working knowledge of secure design principles

Working knowledge of database security

Working knowledge of cloud computing

Working knowledge of Cryptography

Identity and Access Management

Physical and logical access

LDAP

Multi-factor authentication

Session management

Credential management

Software Development Security

Practical understanding of software development lifecycles

Familiarity with software development methodologies used in the enterprise and can explain what it means

Practical experience with DevOps concepts

Working knowledge of security vulnerabilities, e.g. OWASP Top 10, and understands how the following work: Bounds checking, Input/output validation, Buffer overflow, Privilege escalation

Practical understanding of secure coding practices

Solid working knowledge of application security testing, e.g. OWASP WSTG and/or ASVS

Solid working knowledge of web application firewall deployment, configuration, tuning and maintenance, including associated infrastruct