Lead Security Engineer - Application Runtime Protection

ADP • Alpharetta, GA

88d

About The Position

ADP is hiring a Lead Security Engineer for Application Runtime Protection within its Global Security Organization (GSO). This role is crucial for safeguarding critical information and ensuring the integrity, confidentiality, and compliance of employee data. The position involves contributing to various application runtime programs, including Web Application Firewall Security, GenAI Guardrail Security, and API Security. The ideal candidate will have a passion for DevSecOps and a desire to grow within the Product Security organization at ADP.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent knowledge in a relevant field such as computer science, computer engineering, or information technology.
• Five years of experience in security or demonstrated success in at least three years of similar security work.
• Demonstrated expertise in analyzing web traffic for known common attack patterns like SQLi, XSS, etc.
• Demonstrated leadership experience or potential.
• STAR experience with public speaking and examples of ownership situations in team settings.
• Expertise in reading and writing one core coding or scripting language (Java, Python, etc.).
• Experience in querying (SQL) and data manipulation (RegEx, etc.) across various toolsets.
• Ability to self-identify patterns in metadata across individual or multiple records.
• Good understanding of application security / shift-left and interest to learn and grow in runtime protections.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in detailed & organized documentation.
• Inclination to proactively learn and grow within a cybersecurity organization.
• Ability to think and judge independently to help application teams reduce their workload in identifying false positives.

Responsibilities

• Review policy level traffic on a weekly (or daily) basis and identify actions to tighten security across all programs (WAF, GenAI Guardrails, API).
• Present recommendations to policy owners (app development leads) and drive them to adopt your recommendations.
• Aggregate metrics for reporting.
• Contribute towards team or program improvements by identifying areas to improve and working with leadership to make changes.
• Contribute towards software development activities as needed.
• Maintain consistent documentation associated with all operational activities and all developed systems or integrations.
• Self-manage with touchpoints for clarity based on high-level directives.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees