Associate Architect - Product Security

Responsibilities

• Define and enforce secure coding standards and best practices.

• Perform threat modeling, security architecture reviews, and code analysis.

• Design and implement secure CI/CD pipelines with integrated security controls.

• Automate security testing (SAST, DAST, IAST, SCA, container scanning) in SDLC process.

• Evaluate and integrate security tools and platforms

• Lead DevSecOps program in collaboration with DevOps, Operations and Engineering teams

• Build automation focused on efficiency (eg increase triaging efficiency, manage false positives etc)

• Leverage ASPM and build workflows and reports

• Evaluate and integrate security tools and platforms

• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) security and cloud-native security controls.

• Monitor and respond to security incidents in development and production environments.

• Collaborate with development teams to remediate vulnerabilities and design secure applications.

• Develop and deliver secure coding training and awareness programs.

• Stay current with emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and security technologies.

• Ensure compliance with industry standards (eg, OWASP, NIST etc).

• Overall 10+ years of experience in application security, software development, or related roles.

• 6+ years of work experience in Application security, preferably in a fintech or financial services domain

• Strong understanding of web, mobile, API and cloud application architectures.

• Experience of code reviewing or code contributing in Java, Java Script, .Net. C#, Python, or IaC scripting.

• Hands-on experiences running SCA, SAST, DAST, IAST, SBOM, ASPM, Apigee, WAF etc, with approaches or optimizations for the tools to efficiently enforce the enterprise S-SDLC policies.

• Deep understanding of DevSecOps practices and experience in CI/CD automation for one of the popular platforms, such as Gitlab, GitHub or Azure DevOps.

• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).

• Perspective of supporting developer tools as a security professional (eg integrating security tools with IDE, PR checks etc)

• The experiences in building security controls for a system that follows NIST CSF and SSDF frameworks and performing the risk-based security reviews that meet the OWASP, SOC2, GDPR requirements.

• Ability to identify and summarize practical operational procedures, write standards or SOPs, and provide security scan reports.

• A good understanding of full stack software development and best practices for developing software (version control, branching, automation, IaC, documentation, testing, etc)

• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and communicate effectively with highly technical teams and provide written assessment reports as needed.

• Certifications such as CSSLP, OSWE, or CEH.