VP, SecDevOps Senior Developer

Company: Synchrony
Location: Saint Paul
Posted on: March 17, 2023

Job Description:

Job Description:

**Role Summary/Purpose:**

The VP, SecDevOps Senior Developer is responsible for designing, creating and maintaining detection, automation, and other content supporting the 24/7 Joint Security Operations Center (JSOC) and Cyber Operations Leadership requirements, while also providing key technical counsel to the SecDevOps Leader and the Cyber Intelligence Program Leadership Team. The SecDevOps Function devises detection and security automation strategies utilizing vendor-provided detection capabilities and augmenting those capabilities with custom detection, automation and other software solutions. The VP, SecDevOps Senior Developer will have extensive knowledge of programming languages, the environments in which software is developed and operated, and be well versed in the software development lifecycle.

We're proud to offer you choice and flexibility. You have the option to be remote, and work from home, or come into one of our offices. You may be occasionally requested to commute to our nearest office for in person engagement activities such as team meetings, training and culture events.

**Essential Responsibilities:**

+ Partner with leadership to define the detection roadmap and strategy for the automation within security operations.

+ Current with emerging threat landscape and develops capabilities and strategies to safeguard the business from the latest threats.

+ Serves as an information security expert, trusted advisor, and central point of contact across technical and business stakeholders

+ An ability to conceptualize complex ideas quickly and convey them to others in a clear, effective, and motivating manner

+ Lead cross functional team in designing and building complex detectionuse cases across multiple technologies.

+ Identify and design automation use-cases through proven expertise and consultation with JSOC and other customers; create, deploy, and maintain automations, via Agile-process, responding to these use cases.

+ Lead team of developers in building advanced automations and playbooks to solve complex detection and operations use-cases.

+ Identify and design behavioral detection use cases to detect high risk users and assets on the network.

+ Identifyimprovementsto security posture through detection code modifications, architectural changes, automation, and process changes.

+ Maintain and prioritize backlog of development use cases with stakeholders includingproduct owners, scrum masters, developers, and requestors.

+ Design, develop and install software solutions to meet business and technical requirements.

+ Work in a constantly evolving environment, due to technological advances and the strategic direction of the organization.

+ Investigate problem areas. Improve system quality by identifying issues and common patterns and developing standard operating procedures.

+ Test software systems to diagnose and resolve system faults; Improve existing codebases and peer review code changes.

+ Partner with technology leaders in adherence to technology strategy and roadmap.

+ Follow software development lifecycle.

+ Design and implement monitoring, alerting and appropriate metrics to track and report performance and operational efficiency of software.

+ Drive technical innovation and efficiency in software operations via simplification and automation.

+ Accountable for day-to-day leadership of security vendor engagements to maximize tool utility for detection and automation use cases.

+ Create technical specifications and standards.

+ Mentor and coach junior developers

+ Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned

**Qualifications/Requirements:**

+ Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering or related field, with a minimum of 3 years of experience in Information Security; OR in lieu of the Bachelor's degree, a minimum of 7 years of experience in Information Security.

+ Minimum of 5 years of cyber threat detection and security automation experience leveraging industry standard toolsets / frameworks or related tools for detecting anomalous / malicious cyber activity on hosts or across networks

+ Extensive programming experience and knowledge of several common programming languages

+ Capableof full-stack engineering with experiencewith the software development lifecycle including software debugging and testing.

+ Proficiency in software design and architecture, algorithm and data structures, information analysis, and integration patterns.

**Desired Characteristics:**

+ Outstanding all-round communication skills and ability to work collaboratively.

+ Deep experience building UI using popular frameworks

+ Deep experience building and consuming web services via SOAP and REST.

+ Deep Agile expertise

+ Critical thinking, problem solving and creativity

+ Experience with continuous integration environments like Jenkins

+ Experience building and deploying applications on Pivotal Cloud Foundry

+ Experience with writing unit, integration, and UI test cases

+ Hands on experience with customization and content/automation development in modern SIEM, UEBA, and SOAR tools

+ Prior incident response, security operations or security engineering experience with a focus on security content and alerting logic deployment and tuning

+ One or more relevant security certifications (GCIH, GCIA, etc.)

**Eligibility Requirements:**

+ You must be 18 years or older

+ You must have a high school diploma or equivalent

+ You must be willing to take a drug test, submit to a background investigation and submit fingerprints as part of the onboarding process

+ You must be able to satisfy the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act.

+ New hires (Level 4-7) must have 9 months of continuous service with the company before they are eligible to post on other roles. Once this new hire time in position requirement is met, the associate will have a minimum 6 months' time in position before they can post for future non-exempt roles. Employees, level 8 or greater, must have at least 24 months' time in position before they can post. All internal employees must consistently meet performance expectations and have approval from your manager to post (or the approval of your manager and HR if you don't meet the time in position or performance expectations).

**Our Commitment**

When you join us, you'll be part of a diverse, inclusive culture where your skills, experience, and voice are not only heard-but valued. We celebrate the differences in all of us and believe that our individual, unique perspectives is what makes Synchrony truly a great place to work. Together, we're building a future where we can all belong, connect and turn ideals into action. Through the power of our 8 Diversity Networks+ (https://www.synchronycareers.com/our-culture/#diversity) , with more than 60% of our workforce engaged, you'll find community to connect with and opportunity to go beyond your passions.

This starts when you choose to apply for a role at Synchrony. We ensure all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

**Reasonable Accommodation Notice:**

+ Federal law requires employers to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job or to perform your job. Examples of reasonable accommodation include making a change to the application process or work procedures, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment.

+ If you need special accommodations, please call our Career Support Line so that we can discuss your specific situation. We can be reached at 1-866-301-5627. Representatives are available from 8am - 5pm Monday to Friday, Central Standard Time.

The salary range for this position is **100,000.00 - 200,000.00** USD Annual

Salaries are adjusted according to market in CA and Metro NY and some positions are bonus eligible.

**Grade/Level: 12**

**Eligibility Requirements:**

+ You must be 18 years or older

+ You must have a high school diploma or equivalent

+ You must be willing to take a drug test, submit to a background investigation and submit fingerprints as part of the onboarding process

+ You must be able to satisfy the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act.

+ New hires (Level 4-7) must have 9 months of continuous service with the company before they are eligible to post on other roles. Once this new hire time in position requirement is met, the associate will have a minimum 6 months' time in position before they can post for future non-exempt roles. Employees, level 8 or greater, must have at least 24 months' time in position before they can post. All internal employees must consistently meet performance expectations and have approval from your manager to post (or the approval of your manager and HR if you don't meet the time in position or performance expectations).

Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

**Our Commitment:**

When you join us, you'll be part of a diverse, inclusive culture where your skills, experience, and voice are not only heard-but valued. We celebrate the differences in all of us and believe that our individual, unique perspectives is what makes Synchrony truly a great place to work. Together, we're building a future where we can all belong, connect and turn ideals into action. Through the power of our 8 Diversity Networks+ (https://www.synchronycareers.com/our-culture/#diversity) , with more than 60% of our workforce engaged, you'll find community to connect with an opportunity to go beyond your passions.

This starts when you choose to apply for a role at Synchrony. We ensure all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

**Reasonable Accommodation Notice:**

+ Federal law requires employers to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job or to perform your job. Examples of reasonable accommodation include making a change to the application process or work procedures, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment.

+ If you need special accommodations, please call our Career Support Line so that we can discuss your specific situation. We can be reached at 1-866-301-5627. Representatives are available from 8am - 5pm Monday to Friday, Central Standard Time

**Job Family Group:**

Information Technology

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