Senior Lead Engineer, Information Security

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