Api Security - Technical Project Manager

  • Bengaluru
  • Intraedge

API Security-Technical project manager with proven strong technical competence and leadership capability to contribute towards the success of enterprise-wide API security initiatives. The Senior API Security Engineer serves as a subject matter expert in API security and plays an integral role in managing, monitoring & reporting on API security risk reduction.


Primary Responsibilities

- Perform ongoing governance and follow-through with API owners to ensure implementation of threat-based requirements.

- Develop, deliver and keep up-to-date API security standard requirements and design patterns.

- Validate implementation of API security controls against outputs of vulnerability testing tools to enable auditability and verifiability.

- Serve as an API security technical advisor to application teams.

- Evangelize API security design principles.

- Collaborate as API security subject matter expert within the organization.

Security and Technical Experience

- Direct hands on experience developing and securing web APIs and web applications:
REST, SOAP, GRPC.

- Direct hands-on experience with security testing of web services and web APIs.

- Solid hands-on experience with leading threat modeling exercises for applications and services.

- Solid understanding of risk management, security architecture and secure SDLC practices.

- Strong experience and understanding of API identity and access management controls:
OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT

- Strong experience and understanding of familiarity with cryptography controls:
Data at rest, in motion and in-use.

- Experience with industry standards and frameworks:
NIST 800-53, NIST CSF, OWASP, SANS Top 25.

- Experience with Java, JavaScript and mobile application development.

- Familiarity with database architectures:
Oracle, SQL and NoSQL Databases.

- Information security professional certifications such as SANS GIAC, CISSP, CISM.

- Experience with service-oriented architectures and web services security.

Desired Skills:

- Experience mentoring application security and secure development practices to team.

- Experience with DevOps processes in a Cloud/SaaS environment.

- Experience architecting, securing, and operating one or more public cloud environments:
Amazon Web Services, Google App Engine, Azure, and Oracle Cloud.

- Experience with one or more emerging programming languages:
Go, Rust