Senior Security Engineer

Summary/Objective

The Sr. Security Engineer is responsible for implementing, maintaining, monitoring and managing secure solutions. The engineer delivers these solutions in accordance with the organization's architectural designs, best practices, and regulatory or compliance requirements. As risks change, the security engineer is responsible for recommending modifications and enhancements to ensure the organization is evolving with the threat landscape.

Essential Functions/ Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain security systems and tools, including software updates, configuration and control reviews. Build tools and automation to manage and enforce security policies, automate processes at scale.
• Actively participate and lead security team meetings that facilitate secure design.
• Engage in information security projects that evaluate existing security infrastructure and propose changes as defined by security leadership and architects.
• Work in tandem with architects, the security operations center (SOC), incident responders and technology infrastructure and development team members.
• Develop security test plans from architectural design. Identify deficiencies and make enhancements to ensure production is not impacted.
• Help review and design systems that improve the security of application software and infrastructure.
• Design, Code and Integrate application & platform security solutions in our tech stack to enable security & privacy by default.
• Oversees the configuration, customization, diagnoses, and enhancements for application & platform software.
• Performs detailed design and code reviews and addresses findings appropriately.

Supervisory Responsibility

No Supervisory responsibilities at this time.

Education and Experience

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field.
• Background in delivering projects in a timely fashion.
• 6+ years of work experience.
• Strong organization, communications and people skills required.
• CISSP Certification is a plus.
• Public cloud experience (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc).
• Experience in scripting and / or software development using languages like Python, JavaScript
• Experience with configuration management tools like Salt / Ansible / Puppet / Chef
• Experience building infrastructure using Terraform / Cloud Formation (Infrastructure as a code)
• Familiarity with secure coding practices
• Experience in network and network security administration

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as laptop computers, photocopiers and smartphones.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and ability to adjust focus. This would require the ability to lift files, open filing cabinets and bend or stand on a stool as necessary.  The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee may be required to life up to 25 lbs.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time position. Days and hours of work are Monday through Friday during normal business hours. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand.

Travel

Minimal travel

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

EEO Statement

Paymentus is an equal opportunity employer. We enthusiastically accept our responsibility to make employment decisions without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, religion, marital status, disability, military service or veteran status, genetic information, medical condition including medical characteristics, or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state, and local laws and ordinances. Our management is dedicated to ensuring the fulfillment of this policy with respect to hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, termination, recruitment advertising, pay, and other forms of compensation, training, and general treatment during employment.

Reasonable Accommodation

Paymentus recognizes and supports its obligation to endeavor to accommodate job applicants and employees with known physical or mental disabilities who are able to perform the essential functions of the position, with or without reasonable accommodation. Paymentus will endeavor to provide reasonable accommodations to otherwise qualified job applicants and employees with known physical or mental disabilities, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on the Company or pose a direct threat of substantial harm to the employee or others.

An applicant or employee who believes he or she needs a reasonable accommodation of a disability should discuss the need for possible accommodation with the Human Resources Department, or his or her direct supervisor.