Senior Security Engineer

Join a team of cybersecurity professionals and help Swiss Re to fulfil its mission in making the world more resilient. As a Security Engineer in the Applications Identity and Access Management team, you'll be tasked with improving operational environment security and accelerating digital transformation by helping us to engineer solutions for managing access and secrets of technical and system identities. What's more, you'll be working in a hybrid setup, perfectly balancing work from home and the office premises.
 
About the team 
The Applications IAM  team lives for securing access and secrets of technical identities all across the Swiss Re group's IT eco-systems, including the public cloud. We are part of the CSOs Product and Engineering Unit – as a whole we are responsible for cybersecurity engineering and operations, governance, risk, and compliance. We define and advance the company's information security strategy.
 
We are looking for a creative subject-matter expert, keen to deal with interesting security challenges, hungry to learn and collaborate with a highly specialized team.
 
In your role, you will…

• Understand business requirements and translate them into functional, non-functional and technical requirements.
• Deep dive into technology topics that are in scope of the team, documenting and sharing useful knowledge.
• Explore potential solutions to complex technical problems around secret management, implementing prototypes and spikes, giving clarity to the rest of the team about the way technology works.
• Participate in the design, specification and implementation of services for application secret and access management.
• Design and code individual components of moderate complexity, using cloud technologies and frameworks, following SR development standards and services.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues of the components we deliver.
• Support the team Product Owner and Architect to:
  • Understand technical aspects of specific security issues or risks.
  • Understand pros, cons, effort of the solutions being designed.
  • Prioritize implementation tasks in the backlog

 
What we need from you

• In depth technical knowledge and experience of Identity & Access Management as a discipline
• Willingness to understand how things work, what the specific risks are, and what exploits could pose a threat
• Ability to present complex IAM topics to both expert and non-technical audiences
• Customer-oriented attitude
• Coding and Scripting skills (Java, JS, SQL, PowerShell)
• Can-do attitude and the ability to push IAM topics forward as part of a team or independently
• Excellent oral and written skills in English

 
Nice-to-have

• Cyber security and public cloud certifications
• Experience with security audits
• Experience with cloud-based applications and cloud environments (Azure, Alibaba, AWS, etc.)
• Experience with Sailpoint IdentityIQ
• Experience with Hashicorp Vault
• Experience working in an agile environment

 
 
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