Engineer Application Security
NielsenIQ is maturing its Application Security programs and is recruiting an Application Security Engineer who will be responsible for supporting the rollout of DevSecOps capabilities and practises across all geographies and business units.
As the Application Security Engineer you will be responsible for integration maintenance and analyses of the tools and technologies used in securing NIQ products/application throughout their development. You will oversee application security capabilities within a multinational matrixed environment. The application security engineer will have the opportunity to replace the current Static and Dynamic Application Security Tool and advocate for the tech stack used for monitoring.
This position will involve working closely with development/engineering teams business units technical and nontechnical stakeholders educating them and driving the adoption and maturity of the NIQs Product & Application Security programs.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate within Product Security Engineering and Cybersecurity teams to support delivery of its strategic initiatives.
- Work with engineering teams (Developers SREs & QAs) to ensure that products are secure on delivery and implement provided security capabilities.
- Actively contribute to building and maintaining Product Security team security tools and services including integrations security tools in the CI/CD process
- Report on security key performance indicators (KPIs) to drive improvements across engineering teams security posture.
- Contribute to Product Security Engineering team security education program and become an advocate within the organizations DevSecOps and application security community of practice.
- Review IaaS / PaaS architecture roadmaps for the cloud to and recommend baseline security controls and hardening requirements supporting threat modelling of NIQs products.
Qualifications :
- 4 years of experience working in a technical/handson application security development or DevOps professional environment.
- Working Knowledge of web stack web security and common vulnerabilities (e.g. SQLi XSS & beyond.)
- Experience deploying containers using CI/CD pipeline tools like GitHub Actions Gitlab Pipelines Jenkins and Terraform or Helm
- Selfstarter technology and security hobbyist enthusiast
- Lifelong learner with endless curiosity
Bonus Points if you:
- Have experience building serverless functions in Cloud environments.
- Have knowledge of Cloud Workload Protection.
- Experience using SAST and DAST tools.
- Demonstrated engagement in security conferences training learning associations is highly desired and fully supported.
- Ability to think like a hacker.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime