API Security Engineer Company Hidden Finance Cincinnati, OH 1 Opening 2 months ago $1,500 rewar[...]

Agility Partners is seeking a qualified API Security Engineer to fill an open position with one of our banking clients. In this exciting opportunity, you will play a crucial role in securing APIs, leading technical conversations, and establishing an API management strategy.

Responsibilities:

1. Lead technical discussions to determine API security items and define API patterns.
2. Write best practices and create business and security requirements with a focus on threat modeling.
3. Collaborate with stakeholders to determine control criticality and work with application owners to create patterns.
4. Address Information Security risks, ensuring alignment with business objectives and regulatory requirements.
5. Provide expertise on decisions and priorities regarding the enterprise's Information Security strategy.

Benefits and Perks

Reasons to Love It:
Work within a collaborative team environment where ideas and creativity are welcomed! Family and Work Life balance are important to this organization and valued for the employees.

• Working for an organization that focuses on company culture, inclusion and diversity
• 50% medical coverage for you and your entire family, short/long term disability and life insurance options
• 401(k)
• Life Insurance
• Disability coverage

The Ideal Candidate

Qualifications:

1. Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technology field or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
2. 8+ years of engineering or IT/Security work experience.
3. 5+ years of interdisciplinary experience in Access Control Systems, Application Security, Application SDLC, Operating Systems, Cryptographic Controls, API Security, and Networking.
4. Excellent communication skills and the ability to build effective relationships with business leaders.
5. Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
6. Solid understanding of IT security best practices.
7. Skilled in designing, implementing, and supporting complex technical solutions.
8. Experience in API security testing, architecture, design, and lifecycle management.
9. Proficient in integrating security-focused API initiatives with other development teams.
10. Ability to provide clear and concise documentation on delivered code and customer onboarding.

Additional Preferred Skills:

1. Experience with Jenkins pipelines and automating security controls within CI/CD pipelines.
2. Extensive development experience with different API capabilities.
3. Previous microservice development and application vulnerability remediation experience.
4. Knowledge of serverless solutions within AWS.