Synchrony Looking for AVP, SecDevOps Senior Developer at   Delhi Full Time

Role Summary/Purpose:

The role of the SecDevOps Senior Developer involves developing and maintaining automated processes that help to minimize cyber risk by improving the organization’s ability to identify and respond to threats in an efficient manner. The team-member will partner with members of cyber operations, information security and the larger business to identify automation use-cases that they will then design, develop, and implement. Ideal candidates will have strong DevOps skill sets with knowledge of cyber detection concepts/strategies and security tools. More so, the ideal candidate will be capable of critical thinking and problem solving with a customer-first attitude.

This position is remote, where you have the option to work from home. On occasion we may request for you to commute to our nearest office for in person engagement activities such as team meetings, training and culture events. To ensure the safety of our colleagues and communities, we require employees who come together in-person to be fully vaccinated. We’re proud to offer you choice and flexibility.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Recommend, develop, and release new use cases to maximize the benefits and efficiencies from a SOAR platform.
• Lead automation use case/playbook design sessions with stakeholders to map requirements to pseudo-code in flow charts, noting integration requirements and all processes, decision points and outcomes for sign-off prior to development.
• Develop automation playbooks using either out-of-the-box (or custom) integrations and functions as outlined in the automation process design.
• Write automations in SOAR platform to accelerate incident response activities.
• Design, develop, and deploy applications and services on AWS cloud infrastructure, ensuring that they are secure, scalable, and highly available.
• Test software systems to diagnose and resolve system faults; Improve existing codebases and peer review code changes.
• Build and utilize CI/CD pipelines to develop and deliver code regularly.
• Develop and maintain custom security apps and tools via python web development.
• Ability to automate tasks with APIs and serverless scripting.
• Reviewing, debugging, and resolving technical issues throughout the SDLC.
• Design and implement automated security solutions for AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain security automation scripts and tools.
• Perform cleanup and sanitation of incoming log sources and events.
• Keeping up with the latest and greatest tools and techniques for combatting security threats.
• Partner with technology leaders in adherence to technology strategy and roadmap.
• Support the day-to-day operations of the Security Operations program.
• Maintain knowledge of current security trends and be able to clearly communicate them to the team.
• Assist in responding to emergency situations and security incidents.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of Information Security or Intelligence experience; OR in lieu of degree, 7+ years of Information Security or Intelligence experience.
• Demonstrated competence in Python and Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL).
• Demonstrated competence in SOAR platform engineering and development.
• Demonstrated competence in Agile methodologies.
• Demonstrated competence in developing and securing AWS services.
• Demonstrated competence in developing automation solutions for the triage and response of AWS Cloud security events.
• Able to communicate complex information, concepts, or ideas in a confident and well-organized manner through verbal, written, and/or visual means.
• Able to function effectively in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Desired Characteristics:

• Applicable Information Security professional certifications (e.g., SANS, AWS Security and Developer based certifications) and tool specific certifications.
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
• Highly analytical, detail-oriented, and strong problem solving with a common-sense approach to resolving problems.
• Expertise to clearly define complex issues despite incomplete or ambiguous information.
• Strong oral and written communications skills.
• Strong interpersonal and critical thinking skills.
• Strong knowledge in DevOps principals and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Cloud Foundry/Docker is a plus.
• Prior SOC, cyber intelligence, or incident response experience is a plus.