Principal DevSecOps Engineer (Remote)

AbbVie Inc; Salt Lake City (UT); Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the healthcare sector seeks a Principal DevSecOps Engineer to enhance security practices in their software development lifecycle. The role requires extensive knowledge of application security, coding practices, and the ability to integrate security tools within CI/CD pipelines. This position offers a competitive salary and benefits package, and the opportunity to work remotely anywhere in the U.S.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance

401(k) plan

Short-term and long-term incentive programs

Qualifications

• 8+ years’ experience with a Bachelor's Degree, or equivalent qualifications.
• Extensive knowledge of secure coding practices across programming languages like Java and Node.js.
• Experience in integrating security testing within CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain Application Security Testing tools to identify vulnerabilities.
• Develop reports on security findings and remediation efforts.
• Act as support for users in resolving false positives and security queries.

Skills

Application Security

Software Development

Secure Coding Practices

DevSecOps Practices

Technical Communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree

PhD

Tools

SAST

DAST

IAST

SCA

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us atwww.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie onX,Facebook,Instagram,YouTube,LinkedInandTik Tok.

Job Description

Become a key player in our Information Security team as a Principal DevSecOps Engineer, where you will leverage your expertise in application security, security engineering, and software development to support and enhance our inline code testing and reporting processes. This role involves the implementation and administration of application security tooling, integration into CI/CD pipelines, and providing support for development teams using these products and consuming their findings.

This position can be virtual anywhere in the U.S.

Responsibilities

• Implementing and maintaining Application Security Testing (AST) tools (SAST, DAST, IAST, SCA, etc.) to identify code and dependency vulnerabilities during the software development lifecycle.
• Implementing and maintaining Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) tools to centralize and deduplicate findings from multiple solutions and integrate into software development processes.
• Acting as the first line of support for users by helping resolve false positives, providing guidance on finding remediation, and evaluating security exception requests.
• Integrating security tooling with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CICD) pipelines.
• Developing detailed reports on security findings and remediation efforts.
• Demonstrate high proficiency across a wide range of technologies and platforms related to application security, software design and development, containerization, and cloud environments.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree and 8 years’ experience OR Master’s Degree and 7 years’ experience OR PhD and 3 years’ experience
• 5+ years of experience in application security and software development
• 3+ years of experience implementing, administering, and supporting application security tooling such as SAST/DAST/IAST/SCA
• Extensive knowledge of secure coding practices across multiple programming languages (esp. Java, Node.js)
• Extensive experience integrating security testing into CICD pipelines
• Strong knowledge of application security principles along with common vulnerabilities (e.g., OWASP Top 10, CWE, etc.) and associated mitigations
• Experience implementing and scaling DevSecOps practices and tooling within large organizations
• Experience implementing DevSecOps workflows in cloud environments such as AWS and Azure
• Experience developing Infrastructure As Code (IAC) via solutions such as TerraForm and/or CloudFormation
• Experience supporting developers with assessing and mitigating application security test findings
• Ability to effectively communicate technical findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to function as a principal engineer, generating original technical ideas and strategies. Demonstrated creative 'out of the box' thinking to solve difficult technical problems and champion new technologies to achieve program goals.
• Excellent written and oral English communication skills, as demonstrated by presenting at leading scientific or technical conferences.
• Experience coaching and supporting the development of junior engineers

Preferred:

• Experience implementing tooling to consolidate application security test findings from multiple sources to facilitate developer engagement and integrate with development workflows and tracking systems
• Experience administering Snyk and Endor Labs
• Experience integrating Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) tooling with application security pipelines
• Experience automating workflows via programming and scripting languages such as Python
• Experience building logging into DevSecOps pipelines to gain insights into pipeline performance
• Experience collaborating with vulnerability and risk management partners to interface with risk management and acceptance processes

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state orlocal law:

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Companybelieves ingood faith it will pay for this role at the timeof this posting based on the job grade for this position.Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, andwemay ultimatelypay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in thefuture.

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),medical/dental/visioninsurance and 401(k) to eligibleemployees.

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentiveprograms.

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentiveprograms

Note: No amount of payis considered to bewages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, anddeterminable.The amount and availability of any bonus,commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form ofcompensation and benefitsthat are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole andabsolutediscretion unless and until paid andmay be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable law.

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