Product Security Engineer

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Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team youll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the worlds toughest challenges like protecting the environment making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

What we do

The Product Security team is a group of Builders Breakers and Fixers that specialize in collaborative security engagement. The goal of the Software Security (DevSecOps) team is to provide self-service security and to that end the team is focused on enabling the 3 Ways of DevOps: Fast Flow Rapid Feedback and Continuous Learning. As the business moves through its digital transformationthe DevSecOps team is a vanguard for promoting and enabling DevOps practices across the organization. We aim to integrate and enhance current processes remove bottlenecks and enable safe experimentation whenever possible.

Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Software Security Engineer to join our Product Security team. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the security of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) practices across the organization from design to deployment.

How will you make an impact

Software Security Engineer engages with product development teams across the organization and acts as asubject matter expert for providing mentorship related tosecure software development practices.

Key responsibilities

As a software security engineer on the Product Security team you will be responsible for promoting and implementing secure software development lifecycle (SDLC) practices reviewing software security architecture and code developing and maintaining security tools and automation and mentoring and training other engineers on security topics. You will also collaborate with product teams security management and other stakeholders to identify and drive process improvement initiatives and security metrics.

• Work closely with development teams to identify and mitigate security risks in our software and systems.

• Implement and maintain security tools and processes to ensure the security of our software development lifecycle.

• Conduct security assessments and code reviews to identify vulnerabilities and ensure compliance with security standards and best practices.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the timely and successful delivery of secure software.

• Promote and implement Secure SDLC practices based on compliance requirements.

• Review software security practices and architecture as requested by product teams.

• Develop solutions to automate processes and workflows.

• Develop and promote automated scanning tools and practices throughout the organization.

• Identify and drive process improvement initiatives to increase our productivity and/or reduce costs.

• Develop metrics and reporting from aggregated sources to assist Software Security Management with remediation prioritization within the company.

• Contribute to the teams strategy and long-term roadmap.

How will you get here

Education

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent work experience.

Experience

We are looking for candidates with 2.5 years of experience in software development with a focus on security including:

• Experience writing and/or testing software applications; experience with automation.

• Basic understanding of container technologies and cloud providers such as AWS.

• Familiarity with one or more of the following languages: C/C JavaScript Python Bash PowerShell and/or Ruby.

• Familiarity with one or more development tools such as: Eclipse Visual Studio Visual Studio Code IntelliJ Git Jira Jenkins and/or Docker.

• Strong attention to detail.

• The ability to communicate effectively and professionally with a diverse group of people.

Knowledge Skills Abilities

In addition to the experience requirements we are looking for candidates with the following:

• Self-motivated person with an agile attitude

• A track record of performing application security assessments either via Bug Bounty programs or capture the flag events.

• Experience with mobile application security a plus.

• A history of involvement in general information security practice and/or the community.

• Proficient written and verbal communication in the English language.

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin protected veteran status disability or any other legally protected status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.