Sr Security Engineer

Role overview

Sr Security Engineer at H&R Block

Responsibilities

• Conduct code reviews, penetration testing, and static/dynamic analysis.
• Provide security training and awareness for developers and stakeholders.

Employment details

• Location: Thiruvananthapuram [Kerala] [India]

Application details

• T he Senior Application Security Engineer is responsible for ensuring the security of an organization’s products throughout their lifecycle.
• Risk Assessment and Mitigation: Perform threat modelling application design solutions and vulnerability assessments to identify relevant risks, security gaps or risks in product design and development.
• Integrate security tools and technologies into the CI/CD pipeline (e.g., static and dynamic application security testing (SAST/DAST), software composition analysis (SCA), and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) scanning).
• Audit source code and perform code review for critical application changes What you'll bring to the team... 5+ years of experience in an application security role.
• Experience with deploying application security tools in the CI/CD pipeline.

Additional role details

• What you'll do...
• This role also consults with security adjacent stakeholders and business units to provide suggestions, education, guidance and feedback from a security perspective.
• Secure Development Practices: Implement security tooling and automation to scale the Application Security team’s practices.
• Advocate for and integrate security best practices in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Ensure compliance with industry standards (e.g., AICPA SOC2, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOX ISO 27001, NIST CSF).
• Security Architecture and Development : Working with product and engineering teams to design, program development, software development and implement security controls and protections within the product via automation.
• This task ensures the product is built with security in mind from the ground up .
• Planning, Collaboration and Training: Product roadmap planning with key stakeholders, collaboration with cross functional teams to develop mitigation strategies.
• Working closely and mentor Product, Engineering, and IT teams for security best practices.
• Compliance and Reporting: Maintain documentation of security controls and processes.
• Prepare reports on security risks and mitigation efforts for management and regulatory bodies.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
• Experience leading architectural changes or complex cross team efforts to mitigate security vulnerabilities.
• Strong understanding of: Threat modelling methodologies such as MITRE ATT&CK, STRIDE, and PASTA; Amazon AWS Services, MS Azure and their capabilities; Securing web applications; Orchestration tools (ex.
• Anisible, Terraform).
• Experience with frameworks such as OWASP Top 10, SAST/DAST tools, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Fluency in Python, React, and Django Rest Framework.
• Experience with manual source code review, and embedding security to code in production environments.
• Experience with securing software development lifecycle including building programs. that eliminate full classes of vulnerabilities.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and within a team.
• Strong organizational and time-management abilities.
• It would be even better if you also had...
• Certifications such as CISSP, CSSLP, CEH, or equivalent.
• Experience in IoT, embedded systems, or mobile app security.
• Knowledge of regulatory and compliance standards (e.g., AICPA SOC2, NIST CSF, GDPR, HIPAA) Why work for us
• H&R Block does not tolerate discrimination based on a person’s race, color, religion, ancestry, age, sex/gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions and sex-based stereotypes and transgender status), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, service in the Armed Forces, national origin, physical or mental disability, genetic information, citizenship status or any other status protected by law.
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