Security Engineer

Summary

Join Precisely's global Product Security team as a Security Engineer, leading key internal security programs across a diverse portfolio of 100+ products. This role involves ethically hacking products via penetration testing and red teaming, contributing to the secure development lifecycle, and identifying security issues in web and thick client products. You will integrate with internal pen testing and red teaming activities, leveraging bug bounty program experience. Experience with FedRAMP regulations is valuable. This position offers growth and specialization opportunities. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in ethical hacking and a strong understanding of security tools and vulnerabilities.

Requirements

• 4+ years minimum of Security Experience Required
• Proven experience in ethical hacking of web applications through penetration testing or red teaming. Bug bounty success ideal
• Experience security testing non-web applications is highly desirable, including mainframe and cloud infrastructure
• Advanced knowledge of security tooling and vulnerability toolkits
• Good understanding of application architectures designs, and the common tech stacks involved
• Full understanding of the OWASP Top 10 Risks, and how to mitigate them
• Common authentications models (SAML, OAuth, OIDC, JWT)
• AWS related security and attack vectors (or Azure / GCP) essential
• Kubernetes related security and attack vectors (or other container-based deployments) useful
• Experience of leading security tooling (SCA, SAST, DAST and beyond)
• Knowledge of WAF / DDoS protection options and virtual patching techniques
• Experience of DevSecOps, and the common vulnerabilities and weaknesses within the software delivery pipeline
• Experience with scripting and automation (Python, Bash, PowerShell, workflow engines or other automation systems)
• Awareness of OWASP, SANS and MITRE ATT&CK frameworks
• Demonstrated ability to mentor others
• Demonstrated excellence in English communication skills in a stakeholder facing environment
• Must be self-directed, resilient, and creative

Responsibilities

• Monitor, analyze and respond to security events and incidents and participate in forensic investigations
• Manage identity and access controls, including role-based access, SSO, MFA and zero trust implementation models
• Ethically hack the wide range of internally developed products
• Participate in Red and Purple Teaming activities
• Assist with Threat Modelling and product design security reviews
• Investigate possible issues in a FedRAMP production environment, and assist in ensuring its secure configuration with our SRE and DevSecOps teams
• Consult on security best practices across our Engineering, Cloud, SRE, DevOps and Product management groups to achieve end to end security for our products
• Collaborate with the application development teams to ensure a common and shared understanding of any security issues
• Help develop internal security standards, procedures and policies
• Mentor & train peers in advanced security testing, tools, and automation
• Review and understand results from SCA, SAST, DAST and other vulnerability scanning tools
• Research and advise on usage of the latest tools and techniques to ethically hack and defend applications
• Maintain awareness of the latest security trends and zero-day findings

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of FedRAMP requirements and processes advantageous
• Software Engineering background useful
• CISSP, CSSLP and other similar certifications can help
• Full agile scrum working experience a benefit