API Security-Technical project manager with proven strong technical competence and leadership capability to contribute towards the success of enterprise-wide API security initiatives. The Senior API Security Engineer serves as a subject matter expert in API security and plays an integral role in managing, monitoring & reporting on API security risk reduction.
Primary Responsibilities
- Perform ongoing governance and follow-through with API owners to ensure implementation of threat-based requirements.
- Develop, deliver and keep up-to-date API security standard requirements and design patterns.
- Validate implementation of API security controls against outputs of vulnerability testing tools to enable auditability and verifiability.
- Serve as an API security technical advisor to application teams.
- Evangelize API security design principles.
- Collaborate as API security subject matter expert within the organization.
Security and Technical Experience
- Direct hands on experience developing and securing web APIs and web applications: REST, SOAP, gRPC.
- Direct hands-on experience with security testing of web services and web APIs.
- Solid hands-on experience with leading threat modeling exercises for applications and services.
- Solid understanding of risk management, security architecture and secure SDLC practices.
- Strong experience and understanding of API identity and access management controls: OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT
- Strong experience and understanding of familiarity with cryptography controls: Data at rest, in motion and in-use.
- Experience with industry standards and frameworks: NIST 800-53, NIST CSF, OWASP, SANS Top 25.
- Experience with Java, JavaScript and mobile application development.
- Familiarity with database architectures: Oracle, SQL and NoSQL Databases.
- Information security professional certifications such as SANS GIAC, CISSP, CISM.
- Experience with service-oriented architectures and web services security.
Desired Skills:
- Experience mentoring application security and secure development practices to team.
- Experience with DevOps processes in a Cloud/SaaS environment.
- Experience architecting, securing, and operating one or more public cloud environments: Amazon Web Services, Google App Engine, Azure, and Oracle Cloud.
- Experience with one or more emerging programming languages: Go, Rust.
