The Senior Security Engineer II will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining security services that support our business. You will understand data and automation are important ingredients to our mission and know how to actively employ these ingredients at scale. Beyond the technical expertise, we value individuals who can partner cross-functionally across various teams, driving impactful outcomes and further securing our digital landscape.
We are flexible with respect to geographic location, and the ideal candidate will be comfortable working remotely/work from home within the U.S. or from our headquarters office in Bethesda, MD.
Primary Duties:
Working cross functionally to design, build, and operate solutions that continuously improve and automate our security capabilities
Leveraging data to understand trends, metrics, and opportunities to improve our security posture and then helping execute on those opportunities with stakeholders
Leading and enhancing incident / issues response efforts, spearheading analysis, containment, and mitigation strategies in a cross-functional environment to ensure effective resolution and remediation of security incidents / issues
Helping craft and refine security documentation pertinent to our Security Program, such as policies, standards, baselines, and standard operating procedures
Mentoring and coaching more junior engineers or analysts
Minimum Qualifications:
BS/BTech (or higher) in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity or a related field, 10 years security domain experience without degree
6+ years of experience in securing and deploying applications within Cloud Native environments
3+ years of experience in a dedicated application security role with focus on establishing secure SDLC and DevSecOps processes
Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and/or Abilities:
Application Security
Knowledge of health-tech systems, like Electronic Health Records, Clinical data, PHI, etc, direct experience preferred.
Experience architecting, developing, and deploying large-scale distributed systems at scale.
Extensive experience identifying, evaluating and triaging vulnerabilities with Static/Dynamic Application Security Testing (SAST/DAST) methodologies and tools.
Proven experience conducting code reviews, and threat modeling.
Extensive experience with developing automated security testing and validation systems using Terraform, Cloudformation, Python, etc.
Proficient in coding languages such as Python, R, C++, Javascript.
Extensive experience working in AWS/Azure/GCP software development environment..
Proven experience with implementing security controls for web-based SaaS applications such as API Security, WAF, etc.
In-depth knowledge of AI/LLM and machine learning architectures and best practices for securing them.
In-depth knowledge of OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities along with containment and remediation best practices.
Strong familiarity with server-side web technologies (eg: Java, Python, Scala, C#, C++, Go).
4+ years of experience acting as a trusted technical decision-maker in a team setting, solving for short-term and long-term business value
Experience with health-tech systems, like Electronic Health Records, Clinical data, etc preferred.
Physical Requirements
Must be able to sit for prolonged periods of time
