Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

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About the Team

About the Role

We are seeking a high-impact security engineer to join our Vulnerability Management this role you will be the driving force behind scaling our security program across the Product Technology and Business Technology organizations.

The role will focus on engineering solutionsbuilding the automation agents and tooling necessary to streamline our internal operations. Your mission is to empower our engineering teams to identify and remediate vulnerabilities with speed and precision.

Core Responsibilities

• Scale the Program: Design and implement strategies to expand vulnerability management coverage across global service teams.

• Engineer Automation: Develop custom tooling and automated workflows to eliminate manual bottlenecks in the vulnerability lifecycle.

• Enable Engineering: Build self-service capabilities that allow internal developers to detect and respond to security risks autonomously.

• Operational Excellence: Modernize internal security operations through AI/Agentic AI frameworks.

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 8 years experience in cyber security designing and implementing security architectures conducting vulnerability assessments and penetration testing and leading security incident response efforts.

• 6 experience in security engineering principles threat intelligence platforms and security automation tools such as insert principles platforms and tools.

• Bachelors degree in a relevant discipline such as Computer Science Cybersecurity Information Security or a related discipline or equivalent practical experience.

Other Qualifications

Thorough understanding of Threat and Vulnerability Management processes.

Comprehensive understanding of Information Security principles and best practices.

Proficiency in multiple Programming Languages used for advanced security tasks like exploit development or security tool creation.

Solid working knowledge of Public Cloud technologies automation and cloud native applications GCP and/or AWS preferred Strong knowledge of Security Engineering concepts.

Expertise with Security Platforms such as Wiz Qualys or Tenable.

Comfortable working with ambiguity and translating complex problems into clear thoughtful solutions.

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