Software Security Engineer/Architect

American Fidelity; Oklahoma City (OK); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

American Fidelity seeks a software security professional in Oklahoma City to lead secure coding initiatives, perform vulnerability testing, and guide project teams in secure software design. You will collaborate across departments to remediate vulnerabilities, conduct code reviews, and ensure secure vendor software adoption.

Responsibilities include architecture reviews, design patterns documentation, and incident response participation to strengthen the organization’s software security posture.

Qualifications

• Evaluate, implement, test, and administer security testing tools.
• Provide ongoing education to software teams on secure coding practices.
• Perform due diligence on vendor software from a security perspective.

Responsibilities

• Develop architectures and designs to mitigate security vulnerabilities in new software solutions.
• Conduct architecture and design reviews from a security perspective.
• Lead code reviews to identify and remediate security vulnerabilities.
• Create diagrams and document secure design patterns for new systems.

Skills

Secure coding practices

Security education

Code reviews

Incident response collaboration

Tools

Vulnerability testing tools

Penetration testing tools

Job description

• Provide deep expertise on secure coding practices. Regularly provide continuing education to the software department regarding secure coding practices in the form of lunch n learns, formal classes, and secure coding courses.
• Evaluate, implement, test, and administer security vulnerability and penetration testing tools. Interpret results from tests and collaborate with project teams to remediate any vulnerabilities found.
• Working with project teams, provide architectures and engineering designs for new software solutions that help mitigate possible security vulnerabilities. Perform due diligence from a software security aspect on any vendor supported software being considered by the organization.

• Provide deep expertise on secure coding practices. Regularly provide continuing education to the software department regarding secure coding practices in the form of lunch n learns, formal classes, and secure coding courses.
• Evaluate, implement, test, and administer security vulnerability and penetration testing tools. Interpret results from tests and collaborate with project teams to remediate any vulnerabilities found.
• Working with project teams, provide architectures and engineering designs for new software solutions that help mitigate possible security vulnerabilities. Perform due diligence from a software security aspect on any vendor supported software being considered by the organization.

Additional Job Description

• Evaluate, implement, test, and administer security vulnerability and penetration testing tools. Interpret results from tests and collaborate with project teams, security, risk management, compliance, internal audit, privacy officer, and other interested parties to remediate any vulnerabilities found.

30%

• Regularly provide continuing education to the software department regarding secure coding practices in the form of lunch n learns, formal classes, secure coding courses, and team collaboration sessions. Keep abreast and keep software department informed of current security trends, new vulnerabilities or breaches in the industry, secure coding techniques, and new tools to help mitigate vulnerabilities. Document key components for writing secure code.

20%

• Regularly perform code reviews for all project teams to help improve software security. Collaborate with, assist, and train developers on determining security vulnerabilities in code, and make changes to the code as necessary to remediate vulnerabilities. Perform architecture and design reviews from a security perspective on all new systems projects and on projects containing architecturally significant changes.

25%

• Provide architecture diagrams and document design patterns for new software solutions that help mitigate possible security vulnerabilities. Participate in any divisional or departmental discussions related to defining or building new secure infrastructures or data designs.

5%

• Perform due diligence from a software security aspect on any vendor supported software being considered by the organization.

10%

• Participate in incident response activities to assist with identification, exposure, and mitigation of potential breaches. Additionally collaborate with IT Governance, Risk, & Compliance area and Internal Audit to conduct audits on secure software development practices, and to answer audit questions on software security from internal and external auditors.

10%

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