Security Engineer II

Yum! Brands; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Yum! Brands seeks an experienced application security professional to lead security guidance across mobile and web platforms. You will prioritize vulnerabilities, coordinate remediation with engineering teams, and maintain scanning programs for SAST/DAST and container security.

With 4+ years in cybersecurity or development, you will work with global teams to ensure OWASP-aligned practices and compliance is integrated into development and deployment pipelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and at least 4 years of experience in cybersecurity and/or software development.
• Experience reviewing application cybersecurity vulnerabilities for risk and remediation planning.
• Ability to communicate with technical personnel and third parties.
• Knowledge of CI/CD platforms and secure development practices.
• Familiarity with PCI DSS, GDPR, CCPA and how they impact application security.

Responsibilities

• Partner with US teams to provide security guidance as subject matter expert around application security.
• Collaborate with third-party engineers and product owners to identify and remediate vulnerabilities in mobile and web apps.
• Review vulnerability scanner reports and address issues with timelines and remediation activity.
• Maintain scan profiles and policies for containers, SAST, DAST, and crowd-sourced pen testing.
• Conduct awareness campaigns to ensure secure development standards.
• Monitor published vulnerabilities and set remediation priority, re-scan to verify fixes.
• Conduct threat modeling to identify risks at design/architecture stages and guide secure design.
• Coordinate with incident response teams to contain and analyze security incidents.

Skills

Communication skills

Security guidance

Threat modeling

Risk-based prioritization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Information Technology

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD platforms

Vulnerability scanners

SAST/DAST tools

Job description

• Partner with US teams to provide security guidance as a subject matter expert around application security and operate YUM! application security services for the brand.
• Aligning with a risk-based approach, collaborate with third-party engineers, and product owners to identify, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities in mobile and web applications across YUM! systems. These include e-commerce websites, e-commerce mobile apps, and restaurant operations apps.
• Leveraging established YUM! security services, review vulnerability scanner reports/results and work with application and/or engineering teams to communicate and address/remediate issues. This includes ensuring adherence to established remediation timelines, including recommending and monitoring remediation activities.
• Maintain the brand’s application security scan profiles and scan policies as per baseline standards across scanning tools for containers, SAST, DAST, and crowd sourced pen testing. This will include reviewing findings of security scans and onboarding new applications into scanning tools or services.
• Conduct awareness campaigns with engineering teams to ensure application development adheres to YUM! Global Technology Risk Management development standards.
• Continuously monitor published vulnerabilities for various applications, operating systems, and databases. Based on the publicly disclosed vulnerabilities determine the remediation priority and engage the stakeholders. Review the solution by re-scanning the disclosed vulnerabilities. (Familiar with OWASP Top 10, etc.)
• Conduct threat modeling exercises to identify potential risks at the design and architecture stages and provide guidance to development teams in secure design and best practices.
• Coordinate with incident response teams to contain, remediate, and perform root cause analysis on security incidents affecting applications.
  
  
  
• Bachelor's degree and at least 4 years of experience in cybersecurity and/or software development. Additional years of relevant cybersecurity or development experience may be considered in lieu of bachelor's degree.
• Experience with reviewing application cybersecurity vulnerabilities for risk and relevance as well as in vulnerability mitigations/remediation planning, for identified vulnerabilities
• Able to successfully communicate with technical personnel and third parties.
• Knowledge of continuous integration and continuous delivery platforms
• Familiarity with relevant compliance and data privacy regulations (e.g. PCI DSS, GDPR, CCPA) and how they impact application security with the ability to incorporate compliance requirements into security testing and remediation processes.
• Knowledge of common programming languages and paradigms ( OOP, functional, concurrent, etc)
  
  
  

Responsibilities

• Partner with US teams to provide security guidance as a subject matter expert around application security and operate YUM! application security services for the brand.
• Aligning with a risk-based approach, collaborate with third-party engineers, and product owners to identify, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities in mobile and web applications across YUM! systems. These include e-commerce websites, e-commerce mobile apps, and restaurant operations apps.
• Leveraging established YUM! security services, review vulnerability scanner reports/results and work with application and/or engineering teams to communicate and address/remediate issues. This includes ensuring adherence to established remediation timelines, including recommending and monitoring remediation activities.
• Maintain the brand’s application security scan profiles and scan policies as per baseline standards across scanning tools for containers, SAST, DAST, and crowd sourced pen testing. This will include reviewing findings of security scans and onboarding new applications into scanning tools or services.
• Conduct awareness campaigns with engineering teams to ensure application development adheres to YUM! Global Technology Risk Management development standards.
• Continuously monitor published vulnerabilities for various applications, operating systems, and databases. Based on the publicly disclosed vulnerabilities determine the remediation priority and engage the stakeholders. Review the solution by re-scanning the disclosed vulnerabilities. (Familiar with OWASP Top 10, etc.)
• Conduct threat modeling exercises to identify potential risks at the design and architecture stages and provide guidance to development teams in secure design and best practices.
• Coordinate with incident response teams to contain, remediate, and perform root cause analysis on security incidents affecting applications.
  
  
  

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and at least 4 years of experience in cybersecurity and/or software development. Additional years of relevant cybersecurity or development experience may be considered in lieu of bachelor's degree.
• Experience with reviewing application cybersecurity vulnerabilities for risk and relevance as well as in vulnerability mitigations/remediation planning, for identified vulnerabilities
• Able to successfully communicate with technical personnel and third parties.
• Knowledge of continuous integration and continuous delivery platforms
• Familiarity with relevant compliance and data privacy regulations (e.g. PCI DSS, GDPR, CCPA) and how they impact application security with the ability to incorporate compliance requirements into security testing and remediation processes.
• Knowledge of common programming languages and paradigms ( OOP, functional, concurrent, etc)
  
  
  

Preferred Requirements

• Knowledge of cloud environment topics including secrets management, infrastructure as code, and serverless technologies
• Knowledge of CI/CD techniques and build/deployment pipeline technologies
• Knowledge of application scanning tools using both dynamic and static techniques
• Knowledge of containers and container management tools (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes) including how to interpret and remediate security findings and best practices for securing container images and deployments.
• Knowledge of HTTP communication
• Knowledge of package management tools for languages and operating systems (e.g. npm, pip, apt, yum)
  
  
  

BTECH - Computer Science / Information Technology