Director Of Security Engineering

Summary

Join SmartBiz, a leading technology-powered small business financing platform, in a crucial position assessing and improving security solutions and processes. You will drive the focus on critical issues, mature our security monitoring and threat detection/reporting, and build out a maturity model for security improvements.

Requirements

• Extensive experience working with application development teams to secure front-end applications (React) and backend services (Python and Ruby)
• Deep knowledge of auditing and securing cloud-based infrastructure in AWS in a highly regulated environment
• Proficient in implementing, securing, and managing containerized and Kubernetes workloads
• Experience collaborating with Product, Engineering, and DevOps teams
• Proficiency in writing and reviewing Infrastructure as Code including CloudFormation and Terraform
• Experience managing and supporting critical Developer infrastructure and secure SDLC
• Understanding of Application Security principles, SAST, DAST, and web application vulnerabilities such as OWASP Top 10, their risk, and remediations
• Able to manage and lead a small security team, with the responsibility to oversee the work of the team and manage the development of the engineers on the team

Responsibilities

• Drive overall strategy and implementation of security processes, procedures, and governance through a combination of preventive and reactive controls and policies in a cloud environment
• Functioning in a DevSecOps capacity working closely with engineering and infrastructure teams to support and implement security at every level of the stack
• Work operations teams to implement intrusion detection and prevention processes, techniques, and solutions
• Implement security architecture, methods, and controls required to meet security, compliance, and audit requirements
• Respond to, and when appropriate, resolve or escalate security incidents
• Develop and maintain documentation for security systems and procedures

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity in a fast-growing start-up
• 100% paid medical, dental, and vision benefits for employees and their domestic partners and dependents
• 100% paid life and disability insurance
• Flexible vacation policy
• 401k plan