Sr. Application Security Engineer

CW Government Travel; India; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plans

Parental leave

Adoption assistance

Wellbeing resources

Travel perks

Learning platform access

Job summary

Amex GBT in India is hiring a security-focused software engineer to design and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines with embedded testing. You will deploy SAST/DAST, SCA, and container scanning, and manage API security across multi-cloud environments.

You will guide teams on secure coding and establish guardrails for AI tool adoption, aligning with PCI-DSS, GDPR, SOC 2 standards and driving security-driven culture.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development with security focus.
• 3+ years hands-on application security or DevSecOps experience.
• Deep knowledge of OWASP Top 10 and secure coding practices.
• Proficient in cloud security across AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and IaC technologies.
• Hands-on security tooling and vulnerability management.
• Familiarity with agentic AI programming tools and AI security tooling.
• Strong communication and mentoring skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with DevOps to architect secure CI/CD pipelines with integrated security testing.
• Deploy and tune SAST, DAST, SCA, and container scanning with centralized reporting.
• Manage API security tools and cloud-native security across IAM, encryption, and secrets management.
• Guide development teams on secure coding standards and security-first culture.
• Establish guardrails for AI-assisted coding tool adoption and mitigate risks.
• Ensure compliance with PCI-DSS, GDPR, SOC 2 and KPI dashboards for security initiatives.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to evolving security posture.

Skills

DevSecOps

Secure coding

OWASP Top 10

Cloud security

Multi-cloud

CI/CD tooling

AI tool security

Mentoring

Communication

Education

CISSP

GIAC

OSCP

AWS Security Specialty

Azure Security Engineer

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

GitHub Actions

CircleCI

Azure DevOps

SAST/DAST

WAF

SIEM

Vulnerability scanners

IAM

Encryption

Secrets management

GitHub Copilot

Job description

What You'll Do

• Partner with DevOps teams to architect and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines that embed security testing throughout the software development lifecycle, ensuring security is built in from the start.
• Deploy and fine‑tune automated security tools including SAST, DAST, SCA, and container scanning, with centralized reporting and aggregation of findings across the organization.
• Deploy and manage API security tools while ensuring cloud‑native security best practices across IAM, network security, encryption, secrets management, and compliance frameworks.
• Collaborate with development teams to establish and reinforce secure coding standards, provide hands‑on security guidance, and champion a security‑first culture across engineering.
• Evaluate and establish guardrails for the safe adoption of AI‑assisted coding tools across engineering teams, identifying and mitigating risks such as hallucinated dependencies, injected vulnerabilities, and governance gaps.
• Maintain adherence to industry standards (PCI‑DSS, GDPR, SOC 2) relevant to the travel industry, build KPI dashboards for application security initiatives, and communicate findings to leadership.
• Guide junior engineers in security best practices, foster a security‑conscious engineering culture, and contribute to the evolution of the organization's security posture.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of professional software development with demonstrated mastery in at least one major programming language (Python, Go, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, or equivalent)
• 3+ years of hands‑on application security or DevSecOps experience
• Deep expertise in OWASP Top 10, secure coding practices, and API security
• Strong cloud security knowledge with hands‑on experience in AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Proficiency with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Azure DevOps) and infrastructure‑as‑code technologies (Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes)
• Advanced understanding of cloud‑native security, including IAM, network security, encryption, and secrets management
• Practical experience with security tools (SAST/DAST scanners, WAF solutions, SIEM platforms, vulnerability scanners)
• Familiarity with agentic AI programming tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) and AI‑specific security tooling
• Experience evaluating and securing agentic AI coding tools with understanding of associated risks (hallucinated dependencies, code injection, governance gaps)
• Ability to design and implement guardrails and detection strategies for safe AI tool adoption
• Excellent communication abilities-capable of translating complex security concepts for both technical and non‑technical audiences
• Mentoring mindset with a passion for building security culture
• Developer‑first perspective that bridges application development and security
• Multi‑cloud experience (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Professional security certifications (CISSP, GIAC, OSCP, AWS Security Specialty, Azure Security Engineer)
• Background in penetration testing, red team operations, or threat modeling
• Knowledge of MLSecOps and AI/ML supply chain security
• Experience in travel, hospitality, or e‑commerce industries
• Open‑source security contributions or published security research

Location

India

The #TeamGBT Experience

Work and life: Find your happy medium at Amex GBT.

Flexible benefits are tailored to each country and start the day you do.

• health and welfare insurance plans
• retirement programs
• parental leave
• adoption assistance
• wellbeing resources to support you and your immediate family
• Travel perks: get a choice of deals each week from major travel providers on everything from flights to hotels to cruises and car rentals.
• Develop the skills you want when the time is right for you, with access to over 20,000 courses on our learning platform, leadership courses, and new job openings available to internal candidates first.

We strive to champion Inclusion in every aspect of our business at Amex GBT. You can connect with colleagues through our global INclusion Groups, centered around common identities or initiatives, to discuss challenges, obstacles, achievements, and drive company awareness and action.

A ll applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to age, sex, gender (and characteristics related to sex and gender), pregnancy (and related medical conditions), race, color, citizenship, religion, disability, or any other class or characteristic protected by law.

Furthermore, we are committed to providing reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.