Principal Product Security Engineer

AspenTech•Houston, MA

About The Position

The Principal Product Security Engineer role is a key member for the day-to-day operations of Product Security at Aspen Technology. This role will help protect clients, enable teams to deliver secure development, and position the company for future security needs. This thought leader will help drive mitigation of risk through activities such as developing Threat Models, driving Risk Assessments, reviewing alignment of standard controls to mitigate risks in products, oversee vulnerability tracking, ensure security documentation and compliance with security lifecycle activities for product security releases. This could include supporting compliance documents, secure patch release, security incidents, security communications, the security champion program, and product security verification/validation activities. This role will work closely with development teams, senior leaders, and teams across the organization to mitigate risks, protect assets, and enable secure activities. The Principal Security Engineer will support the development and execution of product security strategic efforts to meet business and technology objectives. This role will also support continuously improving product security policies, procedures, tools, guidelines, and security awareness. This role will also maintain a vigilant awareness of industry threats, standards, regulations, and best practices to enhance our security profile.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree (B.A./B.S.) or equivalent in computer science or technical equivalent discipline from an accredited college or university required.
8+ years of experience in IT required.
5+ years of experience in an information security role or experience with security and development teams.
Knowledge of information security regulatory requirements for privacy, secure by design, and defense in depth.
Broad understanding of information security including ISO27002, NIST and other information security frameworks and regulations.
Experience with Application/Product Security, Risk Assessment, Threat Models, Secure Architecture/Design, Security Scanning (SAST, DAST, SCA, cloud security configuration scanning).
Experience with cloud solutions such as Azure and AWS.
Experience with security policy, procedures, tools, services, and cloud security models.
Demonstrated ability to plan, design, develop, deploy, and maintain application security best practices.
Ability to assume high levels of responsibility and to work with a minimum of day-to-day supervision.
Ability to cooperatively and effectively work with people from all organizational levels and build consensus through negotiation and diplomacy.

Nice To Haves

Preferable exposure to the following: IEC 62443-4-1, IEC 62443-4-2, NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, ISO 27002, Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), SANS, OWASP, CWE 25, ethical hacking, and AI Security best practices.
Desired domain knowledge and/or certification: CISSP, CISA, CCSP, CSSLP, CEH, SANS GIAC, security certification from AWS or Azure.
Desired knowledge of the following Technologies: Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), Software Composition Analysis (SCA).
Experience with Application Security Best Practices such as web security, cloud security, pen testing, fuzz testing, security coding guidelines, security architecture/design principles, CVSS, STRIDE, DREAD.
Experience with Application development technologies, processes, and best practices. For example: Agile, RUP, CICD, DevSecOps.

Responsibilities

Supporting the design, implementation, and oversight of Product Secure Development Lifecycle, including security requirements, secure architecture/design, risk assessment, threat models, security scanning, triage and vulnerability management, and product security validation/verification.
Administering product security practices to product teams, technology, and security champions across the organization.
Driving Product Security efforts to resolve challenges, enable automation, and impact organization security culture.
Monitoring information security best practices, standards, regulations, industry threats and risks for improvements to product security practices.
Maintaining a deep understanding of current issues in the realm of information security.
Subscribing to major industry newsgroups and mailing lists and assessing the impact of all emerging issues on systems and practices at Aspen Technology.
Monitoring security bulletins and alerts from all Aspen Technology’s information system vendors.
Evaluating vulnerability impact and formulating and executing risk mitigation plans for product security.
Providing expert analysis of security customer reported security incidents as a member of the AspenTech Security Emergency Response Team (ASERT).
Working with information resource owners during and after security incidents; working with product teams for analysis; recommending best practices and solutions.
Working with product teams, technology teams, client support and customer contacts.
Performing tasks that cannot be done during business hours, occasionally requiring after-hours and weekend work.