Partner with technology leaders in adherence to technology strategy and roadmap.
Skillfully gather and analyze requirements from requesting parties and stakeholders.
Design, develop, and release new use cases to maximize the benefits and efficiencies from a SOAR platform.
Develop automations using no-code, low-code, and traditional code approaches, in that order.
Engineer for software quality through sound manual and automated testing, peer review, and customer acceptance.
Develop and maintain custom security apps and tools via python web development.
Improve performance and efficiency of existing automation solutions.
Participate in diagnosing and resolving production support issues as directed.
Required Skills/Knowledge:
Bachelor's degree with 4 to 5+ years of software engineering within Information Security or Intelligence contexts; OR in lieu of degree, 6 to 7+ years of software engineering within Information Security or Intelligence contexts
Demonstrated competence in Python, particularly HTTP client programming.
SOAR platform engineering and development preferred.
Intimate familiarity with the Agile Manifesto preferred.
Able to communicate complex information, concepts, or ideas in a confident and well-organized manner through verbal, written, and/or visual means.
Desired Skills & Knowledge
Applicable Information Security professional certifications (e.g., SANS, AWS Security and Developer based certifications) and tool-specific certifications.
Ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
Highly analytical, detail-oriented, and strong problem solving with a common-sense approach to resolving problems.
Expertise to clearly define complex issues despite incomplete or ambiguous information.
Strong oral and written communications skills.
Strong interpersonal and critical thinking skills.
Prior SOC, cyber intelligence, or incident response experience is a plus.
Eligibility Criteria:
Bachelor's degree with 4 to 5+ years of software engineering within Information Security or Intelligence contexts; OR in lieu of degree, 6 to 7+ years of software engineering within Information Security or Intelligence contexts
Work Timings: 4:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET
Benefits
Health insuranceFlexible schedule
Additional Information
Job Description:
Role Title: AVP, Security Automation Senior Developer (L10)
Company Overview:
Synchrony (NYSE: SYF) is a premier consumer financial services company delivering one of the industry's most complete digitally enabled product suites. Our experience, expertise and scale encompass a broad spectrum of industries including digital, health and wellness, retail, telecommunications, home, auto, outdoors, pet and more.
We have recently been ranked #2 among India's Best Companies to Work for by Great Place to Work. We were among the Top 50 India's Best Workplaces in Building a Culture of Innovation by All by GPTW and Top 25 among Best Workplaces in BFSI by GPTW. We have also been recognized by AmbitionBox Employee Choice Awards among the Top 20 Mid-Sized Companies, ranked #3 among Top Rated Companies for Women, and Top-Rated Financial Services Companies.
We provide best-in-class employee benefits and programs that cater to work-life integration and overall well-being.
We provide career advancement and upskilling opportunities, focusing on Advancing Diverse Talent to take up leadership roles.
Organizational Overview:
This Role deals with in-house software development for InfoSec groups (primarily, but not exclusively, for Cyber Operations personnel). Our services are currently engaged by the JSOC, IAM, Insider Risk, Digitial Risk, Cyber Threat Intel, and Advanced Threat Response teams, among others. Our solutions are deployed within two enterprise tools: Cortex XSOAR and YODA. Both tools require Python HTTP client programming expertise. We uphold an Agile software engineering / project planning discipline where our customers control their own automation road maps.
Role Summary/Purpose:
The role of the Security Automation Senior Developer involves developing and maintaining automated processes that help to minimize cyber risk by improving the organization's ability to identify and respond to threats in an efficient manner. The team-member will partner with members of cyber operations, information security and the larger business to design, develop, test, and deploy strong automation use-cases. Ideal candidates will have strong Python HTTP client programming skill sets with knowledge of cyber detection concepts/strategies and security tools. More so, the ideal candidate will be capable of critical thinking and problem solving with a customer-first attitude.
Synchrony · Hyderabad, IN