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Senior Lead Engineer, Information Security

Job Description - Senior Lead Engineer, Information Security

Description

Key Responsibilities


Security Engineering & Architecture



  • Design, implement, and maintain enterprise security controls across cloud, infrastructure, and application environments.

  • Evaluate emerging threats and technologies and recommend improvements to the organization's security architecture.

  • Develop security standards, engineering patterns, and technical guidance to improve the overall security posture.


Security Automation & DevSecOps



  • Design and develop security automation solutions that improve operational efficiency and reduce manual effort.

  • Integrate security controls and validation activities into CI/CD pipelines and software delivery workflows.

  • Build and maintain GitHub Actions and related automation to support secure development practices.

  • Automate vulnerability management, policy enforcement, reporting, and remediation tracking activities.


Application Security



  • Lead security engineering efforts focused on protecting internally developed applications and APIs.

  • Perform and coordinate: 

    • Threat modeling

    • Secure design and architecture reviews

    • Secure code reviews

    • Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

    • Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)

    • Software Composition Analysis (SCA)

    • Open-source dependency and supply chain security reviews

    • Secret and credential exposure detection

    • API security testing and assessments

    • CI/CD pipeline security reviews

    • Security validation of application deployments


  • Partner with development teams to identify, prioritize, and remediate security risks.


Web Application Firewall (WAF) & Edge Security



  • Design, implement, and maintain Web Application Firewall (WAF) capabilities.

  • Develop and tune security rules, attack detection logic, bot mitigation, rate limiting, and application-layer protections.

  • Continuously monitor and improve protections against OWASP Top 10 and emerging web application threats.


Offensive Security & Penetration Testing



  • Conduct application red team exercises and adversarial security assessments.

  • Perform manual and automated penetration testing of web applications, APIs, and supporting services.

  • Simulate real-world attack techniques to identify weaknesses in application design, authentication, authorization, and deployment architectures.

  • Document findings, provide remediation guidance, and validate corrective actions.


Collaboration & Security Operations Support



  • Partner with engineering, infrastructure, and cloud teams to implement secure solutions.

  • Support incident response investigations involving applications, cloud services, and development platforms.

  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship on security engineering practices and security tool adoption.


Success Measures



  • Increased automation and efficiency of security processes.

  • Successful integration of security controls into engineering and CI/CD workflows.

  • Reduction of application and cloud security risks.

  • Effective implementation and management of WAF protections.

  • Timely identification and remediation of vulnerabilities.

  • Successful execution of penetration testing and red team activities.

  • Improved security posture across applications, APIs, and software delivery platforms.

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