Senior Security Engineer: Threat Modeling & IR

Truist Financial; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401k plan

Paid holidays

Job summary

Truist Financial is seeking an experienced Senior Security Engineer to design and implement cybersecurity solutions across the software development lifecycle. You will perform threat modeling, security testing, and penetration testing to identify and remediate vulnerabilities, while integrating security technologies into production environments.

You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to enforce secure-by-design practices and guide incident response activities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education, training, and work-related experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in security engineering or related cybersecurity roles.
• Advanced knowledge in cybersecurity principles, theories, and concepts.
• Proven experience in software development lifecycle security practices.
• Advanced knowledge of threat modeling, security testing, and penetration testing.
• Experience implementing and managing complex information security technologies.

Responsibilities

• Designs and implements cybersecurity solutions that protect critical assets within the job area, contributing to the technical design and implementation approach while following established strategies and patterns.
• Performs threat modeling, security testing, and penetration testing for the platforms and services in scope, using structured analysis to identify and remediate significant vulnerabilities.
• Integrates and configures information security technologies in production environments, implementing and refining configuration patterns, automation, and handoff steps for assigned systems or services.
• Serves as a technical escalation point within the team for challenging security issues, investigating root causes and developing practical, reusable fixes that improve team workflows.
• Evaluates relevant security threats, tools, and design options, and provides input that helps shape technical plans, priorities, and goals for the job area.
• Collaborates closely with product and engineering teammates to apply security architecture guidance, secure-by-design practices, and governance controls in day-to-day development activities.
• Develops and maintains security baselines, guardrails, and control implementations for systems and applications in the area of responsibility, helping support regulatory and policy compliance.
• Leads the technical execution of incident response and basic forensic activities for services in scope, following playbooks, coordinating tasks with teammates, and suggesting improvements to procedures and tooling.
• Provides guidance, coaching, and informal training to other security engineers and technical teammates, sharing best practices through design and code reviews and knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Leads significant security engineering workstreams or end-to-end processes within the job area, coordinating contributions from lower-level technical professionals and reviewing outputs for quality and alignment.

Skills

Security engineering

Threat modeling

Security testing

Penetration testing

SDLC security

Information security technologies

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

CISSP or equivalent

CISM

CEH

Tools

Security automation tools

Orchestration tools

Threat detection tools

Job description

Truist Financial is seeking an experienced Senior Security Engineer to design and implement cybersecurity solutions across the software development lifecycle. You will perform threat modeling, security testing, and penetration testing to identify and remediate vulnerabilities, while integrating security technologies into production environments.

You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to enforce secure-by-design practices and guide incident response activities.