Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Authentication: Stand up and operate authentication flows across all Strike Team projects — JWT, AWS Cognito, SSO integrations, and machine-to-machine auth patterns.

• Authorization & Access Controls: Implement role-based and attribute-based access control patterns. Maintain a reusable authorization library that Strike Teams consume rather than rebuild.

• Compliance Implementation: Translate compliance requirements (SOC 2, regional data privacy, customer-driven controls) into concrete technical controls — encryption, key management, audit logging, data residency.

• IP & Network Controls: Implement IP restrictions, VPC-level network segmentation, and traffic policies that protect customer data without blocking legitimate Strike Team workflows.

• Security Patterns Library: Build and maintain a library of vetted security components (auth middleware, secret management helpers, audit log clients) that every Strike Team uses by default.

• Security Reviews & Audit Support: Review Strike Team designs for security gaps, support customer audits, and partner with the QA Architect on security-focused testing standards.

KPIs & Success Metrics

• Security controls implemented across all Strike Team projects (auth, authz, encryption, audit logging) with no critical gaps.

• Reusable security library adoption — share of teams consuming vetted components rather than rebuilding.

• Compliance readiness: SOC 2 and data-privacy controls in place; successful customer audit support.

• Time-to-remediate security findings within SLA.

• Zero preventable authentication or access-control incidents.

Key Skills & Experience

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field.

• Experience: 8+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on security implementation — auth systems, compliance controls, or platform security.

• Technical Proficiency:

– Expert-level knowledge of authentication and authorization patterns (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, SAML).

– Hands-on experience with AWS Cognito, IAM, KMS, and Secrets Manager.

– Strong backend development skills (Python, Java, or TypeScript) — this is a hands-on engineering role, not a pure advisory one.

– Working knowledge of common compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR) and how to translate them into engineering controls.

– Familiarity with secure CI/CD patterns and supply-chain security (SBOM, dependency scanning).

• Engineering Excellence: Track record of shipping production-grade security components. Comfortable being a coding security engineer, not just a reviewer.

• Domain Context: (Preferred) Experience in regulated industries (insurance, finance, healthcare) or multi-tenant SaaS.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• AI Security: Experience securing LLM-based applications — prompt injection defenses, output filtering, model access controls.

• Cloud Security: AWS Security Specialty certification or equivalent.

• Guidewire Knowledge: Familiarity with Guidewire Cloud security model.

• Threat Modeling: Hands-on experience running threat modeling sessions for production systems.