Senior Lead Engineer, Information Security

About this role

Key Responsibilities
Security Engineering & Architecture

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise security controls across cloud, infrastructure, and application environments.

• Evaluate emerging threats and technologies and recommend improvements to the organization's security architecture.

• Develop security standards, engineering patterns, and technical guidance to improve the overall security posture.

Security Automation & DevSecOps

• Design and develop security automation solutions that improve operational efficiency and reduce manual effort.

• Integrate security controls and validation activities into CI/CD pipelines and software delivery workflows.

• Build and maintain GitHub Actions and related automation to support secure development practices.

• Automate vulnerability management, policy enforcement, reporting, and remediation tracking activities.

Application Security

• Lead security engineering efforts focused on protecting internally developed applications and APIs.

• Perform and coordinate:

• Threat modeling

• Secure design and architecture reviews

• Secure code reviews

• Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

• Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)

• Software Composition Analysis (SCA)

• Open-source dependency and supply chain security reviews

• Secret and credential exposure detection

• API security testing and assessments

• CI/CD pipeline security reviews

• Security validation of application deployments

• Partner with development teams to identify, prioritize, and remediate security risks.

Web Application Firewall (WAF) & Edge Security

• Design, implement, and maintain Web Application Firewall (WAF) capabilities.

• Develop and tune security rules, attack detection logic, bot mitigation, rate limiting, and application-layer protections.

• Continuously monitor and improve protections against OWASP Top 10 and emerging web application threats.

Offensive Security & Penetration Testing

• Conduct application red team exercises and adversarial security assessments.

• Perform manual and automated penetration testing of web applications, APIs, and supporting services.

• Simulate real-world attack techniques to identify weaknesses in application design, authentication, authorization, and deployment architectures.

• Document findings, provide remediation guidance, and validate corrective actions.

Collaboration & Security Operations Support

• Partner with engineering, infrastructure, and cloud teams to implement secure solutions.

• Support incident response investigations involving applications, cloud services, and development platforms.

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship on security engineering practices and security tool adoption.

Success Measures

• Increased automation and efficiency of security processes.

• Successful integration of security controls into engineering and CI/CD workflows.

• Reduction of application and cloud security risks.

• Effective implementation and management of WAF protections.

• Timely identification and remediation of vulnerabilities.

• Successful execution of penetration testing and red team activities.

• Improved security posture across applications, APIs, and software delivery platforms.

Originally posted on Himalayas