Senior Software Security Engineer
Motorola Solutions, Inc.
2 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
SeniorJob location
Tech stack
JavaScript
Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Software System Penetration Testing
Automation of Tests
Unit Testing
Azure
Bash
C++
Software as a Service
Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing Security
Code Review
Computer Security
Continuous Delivery
Continuous Integration
Linux
Distributed Systems
Python
Network Protocols
Open Web Application Security
Systems Development Life Cycle
Security Software
Software Engineering
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
TypeScript
Web Applications
Scripting (Bash/Python/Go/Ruby)
Google Cloud Platform
Cloud Platform System
Software Security
Cyber Threat Analysis
Backend
Kubernetes
Information Technology
Tenable Nessus
Machine Learning Operations
Front End Software Development
REST
Splunk
Devsecops
Docker
Static Application Security Testing
Dynamic Application Security Testing
Job description
Security Design and Implementation
- Perform threat modelling, risk assessments, and architecture reviews to identify and mitigate risk.
- Support the engineering teams on definition on detailed security requirements to meet compliance requirements and industry best practices.
- Perform security code reviews looking for potential security vulnerabilities.
- Act as a subject matter expert to advise and answer questions from engineering and compliance teams on technical product security matters., * Define and oversee the deployment of Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools to compile SBOMs of software components, helping to identify known vulnerabilities and license compliance violations.
- Define and oversee the deployment of automated security testing tools into CI pipelines, including Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), and Secret Detection scanning tools.
- Manual penetration testing of web applications (backend and frontend).Manual penetration testing skills in the domains of cloud infrastructure, embedded/OS or mobile are desirable.
- Write custom scripts or unit test cases to check for vulnerabilities or broken/missing security controls.
- Recommend improvements to existing security scanning tools and processes, and propose new ones., * Validate potential security vulnerabilities to determine whether they are actual true positives, or false positives (i.e. non-applicable) in the product context. Write proof of concept exploits when necessary to achieve this.
- Assess the risk of vulnerabilities and threats in order to help the business determine their remediation priority order.
- Communicate the identified security issues to engineering and compliance stakeholders, and manage them throughout the SDLC process to ensure they are properly addressed.
SDLC and DevSecOps Integration
- Establish and maintain secure coding standards, baseline product security requirements and more general best practices to provide guidance to development teams.
- Assist the program area with implementing a secure Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline utilizing DevSecOps principles and practices to increase automation.
- Implement automated security controls as part of CI/CD pipelines.
Incident Response and Compliance
- Support product security incident response processes, including root cause analysis (identify the affected product components, data, and the overall impact level) and definition of mitigation strategies.
- Define clear criteria and protocols for security incident response.
- Conduct post-incident analysis to compile lists of lessons learned, and measures to prevent similar incidents from reocurring, and refine response strategies.
- Monitor emerging security threats, vulnerabilities, and trends to proactively investigate, remediate, and integrate new protections.
- Ensure products comply with relevant security standards, certifications, and regulations (e.g., OWASP, NIST).
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Security Engineering with a focus on product security and/or application security.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related technical field.
Technical Skills
- In-depth knowledge of Linux and Docker container-based infrastructures, including their orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes).
- Working knowledge of techniques, standards, and state-of-the-art authentication and authorization technologies, applied cryptography, security vulnerabilities and remediations.
- Significant software development experience. Experience in Go (our main backend language), Typescript/Javascript, C/C++, Python and Bash is desirable.
- Working knowledge of web-related protocols and technologies (HTTP, REST APIs, DOM, CSP), networking protocols (IP, TCP, UDP), and security protocols (TLS).
- Experience in performing threat modeling, with a good grasp of common threat vectors and frameworks.
- Strong knowledge of security principles, best practices, and industry standards, such as NIST, ISO 27001, and CIS Critical Security Controls, OWASP ASVS and Testing Guides.
- Familiarity with industry-standard security frameworks such as OWASP and NIST.
- Experience with security tools such as SAST, DAST, IAST, and SCA.
- Exceptional analytical and investigative skills, with hands-on experience in root cause analysis.
- Knowledge of current and emerging threats and techniques for exploiting security vulnerabilities.
- Experience with CI/CD pipeline, security tools integration, and secure SDLC.
- Experience with cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud), and on best practices on how to secure cloud environments., Advanced Expertise
- Familiarity with security considerations for AI/ML systems is desirable.
- Understanding of distributed systems design, implementation and operation.
- Understanding of privacy threats and controls, including on how to adapt generic best practices to specific scenarios in the product by providing detailed specifications to stakeholders.
- Exploit development experience, and good understanding of the necessary conditions to trigger different vulnerability types, and the maximum impact achievable.
- Experience with enterprise log collection and analysis platforms (e.g., Splunk, OSQuery).
Education and Certifications
- Master's degree or equivalent experience preferred.
- Security certifications are a plus, including OSCP, OSEE, SANS/GIAC, CCSP, and CISSP.
Soft Skills and Leadership
- Excellent verbal and written communication, with the ability to translate complex security concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to design, document, and implement new security processes.
- Experience in a high-growth technology environment or SaaS business.
- Ability to remain calm under pressure, especially during incidents or audits.
Benefits & conditions
In return for your expertise, we'll support you in this new challenge with coaching & development every step of the way. Also, to reward your hard work you'll get:
- Competitive salary and bonus schemes
- Two weeks additional pay per year (holiday bonus).
- 25 days holiday entitlement + bank holidays.
- Attractive defined contribution pension scheme.
- Private medical insurance.
- Employee stock purchase plan.
- Flexible working options.
- Life assurance.
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay.
- Career development support and wide ranging learning opportunities.
- Employee health and wellbeing support EAP, wellbeing guidance etc.
- Carbon neutral initiatives/goals.
- Corporate social responsibility initiatives including support for volunteering days.
- Well known companies discount scheme.
About the company
At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We're a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that's critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future., The Senior Software Security Engineer will be responsible for analysing software designs and implementations from a security perspective, identifying and proposing remediations to security issues throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC)., Motorola Solutions UK Limited