Senior Application Security Engineer

Do you want to help bring PlayStation technology to a worldwide audience? Are you passionate about securing infrastructure that constantly pushes the boundary of the gaming industry? Are you ready to work with innovative technology, forward-thinking engineers, and a passionate security team? If so, join us!

The position is a hands-on application security engineering role for someone who likes working in multi-disciplined teams and with other sharp engineers in a fast-paced and fun environment.

You will provide expert technical guidance and hands on validation of secure solutions during the design, development, and testing of systems supporting the PlayStation products and services.

As a Sr. Application Security Engineer in the Product Security team it is also expected to be the domain specialist in one or several parts within the Secure Development Lifecycle program to mentor and empower other members in the team.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineers, consultants and leadership to address security risks and provide mitigation recommendations within the Secure Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Perform security architecture and design reviews of all systems and applications developed at PlayStation.
• Perform validation of security controls to insure consistency with compliance and industry standard methodologies.
• Perform hands on security testing of products and services to proactively discover risks and supervise them to resolution.
• Understand, balance and communicate business risk with security risk.
• Ability to understand business requirements and apply security without adversely affecting the desired functionality.
• High level of personal integrity, with the ability to professionally handle confidential matters, and reflect appropriate level of judgment as it pertains to security.
• Leading includes keeping better communication with other specialists and leadership in order to conduct other job duties in the above as a team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years previous experience in information security.
• 2+ years’ experience working within software development.
• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Information Security/Cyber Security or equivalent.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, as well as social skills including the ability to articulate to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Able to work both independently as well with development teams and multi-task effectively.
• Firm understanding of enterprise class application architectures that are highly scalable and reliable and the ability to secure them.
• Experience of security architecture and design reviews.
• Experience with multiple languages such as Java, Go, Python and Perl etc. and understand how to detect and remedy related security issues such as OWASP top 10.
• Experience with AWS and Akamai technologies.
• Experience with securing host, database, and application solutions for multi-tier systems.

Desired Experience

• Excellent analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience with Penetration Testing.
• Knowledge of automated attack tools and developing mitigation techniques.
• Hacker Mindset and always strives to think like an attacker.
• Technical certifications within information security are a plus (CISSP, CCSP, GIAC or equivalents).
• Experience with multiple development methodologies such as Agile, DevOps etc.

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