Security Engineer III

KFC Corporation; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

KFC Corporation in India seeks an experienced security professional to lead application security for US and regional teams. You will prioritize vulnerabilities across e‑commerce and restaurant operations apps, maintain scanning policies, and guide developers to secure design.

Engage with incident response when needed and ensure regulatory alignment. Ideal candidates bring 6–8 years in cybersecurity or development, strong communication, and hands‑on experience with CI/CD and cloud security.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with 6–8 years in cybersecurity or software development.
• Experience reviewing application vulnerabilities for risk and remediation planning.
• Ability to communicate with technical personnel and third parties.
• Knowledge of CI/CD platforms and secure SDLC practices.
• Understanding of PCI DSS, GDPR, CCPA compliance impacts on testing.
• Familiarity with cloud, IAM, secrets management, and serverless tech.

Responsibilities

• Provide security guidance for YUM! applications and services as SME.
• Identify, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities in mobile and web apps across YUM! systems.
• Review scanner results and coordinate remediation with engineering teams.
• Maintain scan profiles/policies for containers, SAST, DAST, and pen testing.
• Lead awareness campaigns on secure development standards.
• Monitor disclosed vulnerabilities and set remediation priorities with stakeholders.
• Conduct threat modeling at design/architecture stages and guide secure design.
• Coordinate with incident response to contain and analyze security incidents.

Skills

Application security

Vulnerability management

OWASP Top 10

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud security

Containers Docker Kubernetes

Threat modeling

Incident response

Stakeholder communication

Regulatory compliance (PCI DSS GDPR Cb

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

SAST/DAST tools

Vulnerability scanners

CI/CD tooling

Job description

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 6‑8 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)

• 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)

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)