Senior Security Software Engineer (Remote)

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

The Information Security Strategy and Analytics team is looking for an experienced technologist with expertise in software engineering and information security to help improve security at AbbVie. In this role, you will develop software to perform automated tests of security controls and support efforts to measure enterprise security control coverage and application security maturity. The ideal candidate will possess a comprehensive understanding of both enterprise IT and information security, strong software development skills, and the ability to structure what you learn in a way that is consumable and actionable by senior leadership.

This position can be remote anywhere in the U.S.

In this role, you’ll be responsible for:

• Transforming a proof-of-concept (PoC) solution developed in Python designed to validate security control effectiveness into a mature application. You will lead efforts to mature and expand the existing code base, implement additional control validation use cases, and make the data accessible to others via REST APIs and/or interactive websites.
• Using your strong enterprise IT and information security knowledge to measure application security and security control coverage.
• Supporting additional software development and reporting initiatives as required.

Tools and skills you will use in this role:

• Experience with hybrid cloud solutions with both on-premise and cloud-hosted components.
• Developing software, REST APIs, and websites in Python and web development languages.
• Git for version control and code management.
• Enterprise IT and Information Security knowledge spanning across infrastructure, networking, application development, and other key enterprise IT components and associated Information Security disciplines.
• The ability to clearly communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with 7 years experience OR Master's Degree with 6 years experience OR PhD with 2 years experience in software engineering and information security. in a software engineering role developing automation, REST APIs, and websites using modern web development technologies and cloud-native solutions.
• Demonstrated understanding of information security principles in areas including application security, infrastructure security, vulnerability management, and security operations.
• In-depth understanding of enterprise IT ecosystems and associated security controls, capable of evaluating and reporting on the effectiveness of these controls to non-technical audiences.
• Advanced Python programming skills.
• Experience designing metrics and reports that effectively communicate technical security metrics and insights to senior leadership.

Beneficial:

• Experience building distributed hybrid cloud solutions in AWS.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

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• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs​

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Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. ​

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