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Lead Security Engineer

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Join us and make a real impact as you help shape the future of software security at one of the world’s largest and most influential companies. You’ll be part of a high-performing team delivering secure, innovative solutions that protect our business and clients. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, work with cutting-edge technology, and collaborate with talented professionals. We value your expertise and encourage you to bring your ideas to the table. Together, we’ll build a safer, more resilient digital future.

As a Lead Security Engineer in the Cloud Security Engineering organization, you will play a pivotal role in delivering software solutions that meet functional and user requirements while preventing misuse and malicious behavior. You will carry out critical technology solutions using tamper-proof, audit-defensible methods across multiple technical areas and business functions. You will help drive secure engineering practices and foster a culture of innovation and excellence. Your contributions will directly impact the security and scalability of our cloud environment.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Engage and improve the lifecycle of services from inception and design through deployment, operation, and refinement
  • Develop and build solutions for cloud environment governance, protection, auditing, monitoring, remediation, and reporting
  • Use enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate threat modeling, vulnerability analysis synthesis, and security documentation, validating outputs and ensuring sensitive data is handled appropriately
  • Design, develop, and improve services to scale with the firm’s cloud usage
  • Develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software and tooling solutions
  • Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
  • Perform system design and code reviews
  • Advocate for engineering and operational excellence
  • Lead stakeholder interactions and mentor junior engineers
  • Apply reuse-first, AI-assisted practices within SDLC/toolchain routines to strengthen security testing and control validation, ensuring traceability/auditability and alignment to resiliency and security expectations

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience developing and architecting cloud-native applications with AWS services, including proficiency with Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, and EKS
  • Hands-on expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions such as Terraform and CloudFormation
  • Proficiency in developing enterprise software and multiple programming languages, preferably Python
  • CI/CD experience utilizing tools like GitHub and Jenkins, with familiarity in Agile development methodologies
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively convey technical design ideas to stakeholders
  • Ability to conceptualize, design, validate, and implement creative solutions to complex technical issues
  • Skill in analyzing system metrics and data to draw insightful conclusions and make forward-thinking decisions that prevent technical debt
  • Capacity to work independently and collaboratively within a team to achieve common goals
  • Demonstrated experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to support security engineering workflows with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity
  • Ability to review and validate AI-assisted code/security recommendations before adoption, escalating uncertainty and ensuring outcomes align to security, resiliency, and auditability expectations

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

  • Cybersecurity knowledge
  • Experience with Azure, GCP, or other public cloud environments
  • Cloud certifications such as AWS Developer Associate or AWS Solutions Architect Associate

If you’re ready to make a difference and grow your career in a collaborative, innovative environment, we invite you to join us.

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