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Lead Security Engineer – Cyber Platform Engineering
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About the role
- Lead Security Engineer managing web and application security for Cyber Platform Engineering at fintech. Collaborating with teams to enhance digital platform security and protect against threats.
Responsibilities
- Own and lead the organization’s web security platform and its protection capabilities.
- Implement and tune web security controls to reduce risk while maintaining performance.
- Maintain platform standards, baselines, governance, and documentation.
- Guide teams on secure onboarding of services (routing, encryption, headers, policies).
- Strengthen protections against common web/API threats and automated abuse.
- Support DDoS readiness through runbooks and exercises.
- Support security requirements for cloud migrations and platform changes.
- Use logging/telemetry tools to investigate issues and support threat analysis.
- Contribute to secure network architecture (segmentation, ingress/egress, connectivity).
- Provide direction on firewall and network protections and rule base reviews.
- Hands-on leadership and mentorship to more junior employees.
- Advance web/API protection and detection maturity and resilience.
- Improve cloud and container security posture through best practice hardening via CSPM.
- Enhance DDoS readiness and operational preparedness.
- Develop reusable, secure engineering patterns for cross team adoption.
- Partner with application engineering, cloud platform teams, network/security architecture, and security operations to deliver unified security outcomes.
- Participate in incident response and drive follow-up improvements.
- Collaborate with domain SMEs across network, endpoint, cloud, and email security to maintain cohesive, enterprise wide protection.
- Mentor and guide engineers to embrace secure engineering practices.
- Regularly contribute to security documentation and platform standards, collaborating with team members to maintain accurate, high quality technical artifacts and ensure consistent understanding across teams.
Requirements
- Proven, hands‑on experience with CDN, WAF, and API protection technologies.
- Strong command of web protection concepts and implementation, including DDoS protection and bot defense.
- Extensive experience in security engineering with strong focus on web and application security within enterprise environments.
- Demonstrated ability to operate as a hands‑on technical lead with end‑to‑end ownership of platform outcomes, prioritization, and cross‑team delivery.
- Strong understanding of network security architecture and common web/cloud attack vectors, with ability to translate threat patterns into practical controls.
- Deep experience with at least one major cloud service provider.
- Working knowledge of container orchestration and container security.
- Solid background in firewall and network security: NGFW, IDS/IPS, etc.
- Experience conducting firewall rule‑base reviews (manual and automated).
- Familiarity with cloud‑delivered network protection models, including secure web gateways and Zero Trust Network Access.
- Experience with email security and threat‑detection tooling, including behavioral analysis and phishing/malware protection.
- Strong understanding of PKI, TLS, certificate lifecycle management, and trust‑model design.
- Excellent communication skills, able to explain complex technical issues clearly to technical and non‑technical audiences.
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