Application Security Engineer

Sofia Stars is a fast-growing global service provider that guides high-growth businesses to success. Our range of tailored solutions includes R&D, Customer Support, Sales, KYC, Risk, and Anti-Fraud services. We make every connection shine with fresh tech and cultural understanding.

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with other teams to achieve complex objectives.
• Responsible for security architecture design from cloud infrastructure to application through the implementation of "secure by design" principles.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, and developers on the implementation of the security controls platform ecosystem and products.
• Proof security implementations within infrastructure and application deployment manifests and the CI/CD pipelines.
• Define required policies, controls, and capabilities for the protection of products and environments.
• Build and validate declarative threat models automation.
• Participate in engineering teams’ product planning cycles and committees.
• Oversee the product security aspects for migration of products and services from Data Center to public cloud, e.g., AWS.
• Serve as a trusted cyber security advisor to product and application teams.

Minimum Requirements:

• Experience integrating security scanning/tooling into the development pipeline.
• Experience in analysing and securing microservices and applications developed using JavaScript and Typescript.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (such as Gitlab, Jenkins) and infrastructure-as-a-code models (such as Terraform, Helm, or CloudFormation).
• Hands-on development experience in Python/shell scripting.
• Strong understanding of supply chain security, software integrity, and secure software delivery.
• Experience with Docker and mesh technologies (such as ISTIO).
• Experience with architecture and security reviews, threat modelling, and application risk is highly desired.
• Experience working with Agile methodologies.
• Knowledge of privacy laws and regulations, such as GDPR desired.
• Familiarity with industry regulations, frameworks, and practices. For example, PCI, ISO 27001, NIST, etc.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• In-depth experience with architecting secure services on Kubernetes.
• Extensive experience with architecting secure services on AWS or on-prem data centers.
• Security-related professional certifications e.g., CISSP, CISM, CCSK, CCSP, CEH, are highly desirable.

Our Excellent Benefits:

• Up to 25 vacation days
• 6 undocumented sick leaves
• Medical insurance and dental coverage
• Sport card 70% coverage (Multisport and/or CoolFit)
• Food vouchers (102 EUR)
• Appreciation gifts (birthday, wedding, newborn, etc.)
• Office massages
• Breakfast, lunch & snacks in the office
• Education budget
• Monthly team events
• Great office location

Working Model:

• This is an office-based position in Sofia, Bulgaria.

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