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Manager, Application Security Engineer
2 years ago
PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play —it’s also the Best Place to Work. We’ve thrilled gamers since 1994, when we launched the original PlayStation. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in interactive and digital entertainment. The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.
Manager, Application Security Engineer
San Diego, CA
Do you want to help bring PlayStation technology to a worldwide audience? Are you passionate about securing infrastructure that constantly pushes the boundary of the gaming industry? Are you ready to work with innovative technology, forward-thinking engineers, and a passionate security team? If so, join us!
Come lead a team of application security engineers working in multi-disciplined teams and with other engineering leaders in a fast-paced and fun environment.
You will lead a team that develops and integrates security solutions in the design, development, and testing for secure development.
As an Application Security Engineer Manager in the Product Security team it is also expected to be the domain specialist in one or several parts within the Secure Development Lifecycle program to mentor and empower the members of your team.
Key Responsibilities
- Mentor, manage and hire a team of software engineers in application security.
- Draw from your own experience to guide the team to solve complex engineering assignments.
- Instill a spirit of continuous improvement in the team’s code, architecture, and processes.
- Help to set the engineering agenda through the technical product vision.
- Collaborate with engineers, consultants and leadership to address security risks and provide mitigation recommendations within the Secure Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
- Integrate security into the development pipeline and work with engineering and business stakeholders to continue to automate security practices within application development.
- Perform validation of security controls to ensure consistency with compliance and industry standard methodologies.
- Understand, balance and communicate business risk with security risk.
- Ability to understand business requirements and apply security without adversely affecting the desired functionality.
- High level of personal integrity, with the ability to professionally handle confidential matters, and reflect appropriate level of judgment as it pertains to security.
- Leading includes keeping better communication with other specialists and leadership in order to conduct other job duties in the above as a team.
Qualifications
- Leading teams of 4+ engineers.
- Experience with team building and mentoring engineers.
- 5+ years previous experience in information security.
- 2+ years experience working within software development.
- A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Information Security/Cyber Security or equivalent.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, as well as social skills including the ability to articulate to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Firm understanding of enterprise class application architectures that are highly scalable and reliable and the ability to secure them.
- Experience with security architecture and design reviews.
- Experience with multiple languages such as Java, Go, Python and Perl etc. and understand how to detect and remedy related security issues such as OWASP top 10.
- Experience with AWS and Akamai technologies.
- Experience with securing host, database, and application solutions for multi-tier systems.
Desired Experience
- Leading a team of engineers in a global capacity
- Excellent analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities.
- Experience with Penetration Testing.
- Knowledge of automated attack tools and developing mitigation techniques.
- Hacker Mindset and always strives to think like an attacker.
- Technical certifications within information security are a plus (CISSP, CCSP, GIAC or equivalents).
- Experience with multiple development methodologies such as Agile, DevOps etc.
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