DevSecOps Security Engineer

Job Description:

Job Title:             DevSecOps Security Engineer

Location :            New York, NY (3 days onsite Hybrid)

Type:                  Contract

Job Overview

What You’ll Do:

Be part of a team of engineers to implement specific security policies in the CI/CD security tools including but not limited to SAST, OSS, and SCA applications.

• Work with Development, DevOps, and Security teams to identify and develop automated security and compliance capabilities in support of DevSecOps processes.
• Define the security rules that needs to be adhered to at a code level in web and mobile applications written in .NET, Java, React, Python and other languages.
• With your development background and security knowledge, provide secure stable platform for enforcing application security controls.
• Support security standards, design & implement architectural patterns to increase the resiliency and scalability of security platform.
• Work with our partners to implement, manage, and optimize security measures within our GitHub repositories to continuously improve code integrity and protect against vulnerabilities.

Required skillset:

• Must have 5+ years software development experience using Python
• Working with APIs, including but not limited to Rest
• Unit testing frameworks
• Multi-process and multi-thread architecture
• Must have 5+ years in Linux, strong bash scripting skills.
• Deep understanding of CI CD pipelines
• Working knowledge of windows environment, simple scripting dos-batch etc.
• Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years of work experience in the IT field
• Ability to process large datasets for reporting and analysis.

Desired Skillset:

• A self-starter, with a strong desire for learning new technologies and applying them to solve problems
• Knowledge of SAST, OSS technologies
• Ability to perform Python code reviews with minimal assistance
• Expertise in monitoring, alerting, reporting, data analysis is desired.
• Experience with application build environments like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, TeamCity etc.
• DevOps container/orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Docker, Puppet, etc) is a plus
• Experience with evaluation, integration and onboard of security tools such as DAST, RASP, WAF, vulnerability scanner results, container analysers, open-source scanning is a plus