API Security Lead — Drive Vulnerability Management & DevSecOps

Habitat For Humanity Of Durham; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k plan

Paid vacation

Job summary

Truist Financial Corporation is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to lead API security testing and enterprise vulnerability management within bank-grade environments. You will work with DevSecOps, developers, and security teams to identify, assess, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities in APIs and applications.

Responsibilities include conducting security testing and pen testing across platforms, designing risk-based remediation strategies, and integrating automated API security testing

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and work-related experience.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in security engineering or related cybersecurity roles.
• Deep specialized knowledge in cybersecurity principles, theories, and concepts.
• Proven experience in software development lifecycle security practices.
• Deep knowledge of threat modeling, security testing, and penetration testing.
• Experience implementing and managing complex information security technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead the enterprise vulnerability management program for automated API testing, including identification, assessment, prioritization, tracking, and remediation of security vulnerabilities.
• Performs security testing, and penetration testing tasks for assigned platforms and services, using defined methods to identify and remediate vulnerabilities.
• Develop risk-based remediation strategies and collaborate with application teams to reduce organizational security exposure
• Reviews relevant security threats, tools, and design options for assigned work, and provides input that supports technical plans and priorities for the job area.
• Perform triage and validation of security findings to reduce false positives and improve remediation effectiveness.
• Design, implement, and maintain automated API security testing capabilities within CI/CD pipelines.
• Implements and updates security baselines, guardrails, and control configurations for systems and applications within the area of responsibility, helping maintain regulatory and policy compliance.
• Shares knowledge and best practices with technical teammates, offering informal guidance and support during code reviews, design discussions, and pairing sessions.
• Plans and manages own work to meet defined objectives and milestones, seeking feedback, pursuing self-development, and adjusting approaches to improve quality and effectiveness over time.

Skills

API security

Security testing

Penetration testing

Vulnerability management

Threat modeling

CI/CD pipelines

Python scripting

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Akamai

Salt Security

OWASP ZAP

ReadyAPI

Job description

Truist Financial Corporation is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to lead API security testing and enterprise vulnerability management within bank-grade environments. You will work with DevSecOps, developers, and security teams to identify, assess, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities in APIs and applications.

Responsibilities include conducting security testing and pen testing across platforms, designing risk-based remediation strategies, and integrating automated API security testing