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We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.\nAperçu de l’entreprise\nChez Motorola Solutions, nous pensons que tout commence par nos employés. Nous sommes une communauté mondiale soudée, unie par la volonté incessante de contribuer à la sécurité des personnes partout dans le monde. Nous concevons et connectons des technologies qui contribuent à protéger les personnes, les biens et les infrastructures. Nos solutions favorisent la collaboration essentielle pour améliorer la sécurité des populations, des écoles, des hôpitaux, des entreprises et, finalement, des nations. Connectez-vous à une carrière qui compte et aidez-nous à bâtir un avenir plus sûr.\nDepartment Overview\nThe Avigilon security team, which you will be a key member of, is responsible for maintaining and implementing security controls for all confidential and intellectual property data across our physical security and video security platform, within the Avigilon organization.This Senior Software Security Engineer will be responsible for analyzing software designs and implementations from a security perspective, identifying and proposing remediations to security issues throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC).\nJob Description\n Responsibilities:\nSecurity Design and Implementation\nPerform threat modeling, risk assessments, and architecture reviews to identify and mitigate risk.\nSupport the engineering teams on detailed security requirements to meet compliance requirements and industry best practices.\nPerform security code reviews looking for potential security vulnerabilities.\nAct as a subject matter expert to advise and answer questions from engineering and compliance teams on technical product security matters.\nSecurity Testing\nDefine and oversee the deployment of Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools to compile SBOMs of software components, helping to identify known vulnerabilities and license compliance violations.\nDefine and oversee the deployment of automated security testing tools into CI pipelines, including Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), and Secret Detection scanning tools.\nManual penetration testing of web applications (backend and frontend).Manual penetration testing skills in the domains of cloud infrastructure, embedded/OS or mobile are desirable.\nWrite custom scripts or unit test cases to check for vulnerabilities or broken/missing security controls.\nRecommend improvements to existing security scanning tools and processes, and propose new ones.\nVulnerability Management\nTriage the findings from the automated security scanning tools.\nValidate potential security vulnerabilities to determine whether they are actual true positives, or false positives (i.e. non-applicable) in the product context. Write proof of concept exploits when necessary to achieve this.\nAssess the risk of vulnerabilities and threats in order to help the business determine their remediation priority order.\nCommunicate the identified security issues to engineering and compliance stakeholders, and manage them throughout the SDLC process to ensure they are properly addressed.\nSDLC and DevSecOps Integration\nEstablish and maintain secure coding standards, baseline product security requirements and more general best practices to provide guidance to development teams.\nAssist the program area with implementing a secure Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline utilizing DevSecOpsprinciples and practices to increase automation.\nImplement automated security controls as part of CI/CD pipelines.\nIncident Response and Compliance\nSupport product security incident response processes, including root cause analysis (identify the affected product components, data, and the overall impact level) and definition of mitigation strategies.\nDefine clear criteria and protocols for security incident response.\nConduct post-incident analysis to compile lists of lessons learned, and measures to prevent similar incidents from reoccurring, and refine response strategies.\nMonitor emerging security threats, vulnerabilities, and trends to proactively investigate, remediate, and integrate new protections.\nEnsure products comply with relevant security standards, certifications, and regulations (e.g., OWASP, NIST).\n Qualifications:\nExperience and Education\n7+ years of experience in Security Engineering with a focus on product security and/or application security.\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related technical field.\nTechnical Skills\nIn-depth knowledge of Linux and Docker container-based infrastructures, including their orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes). \nWorking knowledge of techniques, standards, and state-of-the-art authentication and authorization technologies, applied cryptography, security vulnerabilities and remediations.\nSignificant software development experience. Experience in Go (our main backend language), Typescript/Javascript, C/C++, Python and Bash is desirable.\nWorking knowledge of web-related protocols and technologies (HTTP, REST APIs, DOM, CSP), networking protocols (IP, TCP, UDP), and security protocols (TLS).\nExperience in performing threat modeling, with a good grasp of common threat vectors and frameworks.\nStrong knowledge of security principles, best practices, and industry standards, such as NIST, ISO 27001, and CIS Critical Security Controls, OWASP ASVS and Testing Guides.\nFamiliarity with industry-standard security frameworks such as OWASP and NIST.\nExperience with security tools such as SAST, DAST, IAST, and SCA.\nExceptional analytical and investigative skills, with hands-on experience in root cause analysis.\nKnowledge of current and emerging threats and techniques for exploiting security vulnerabilities.\nExperience with CI/CD pipeline, security tools integration, and secure SDLC.\nExperience with cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud), and on best practices on how to secure cloud environments.\n Desirable Qualifications:\nAdvanced Expertise\nFamiliarity with security considerations for AI/ML systems is desirable.\nUnderstanding of distributed systems design, implementation and operation.\nUnderstanding of privacy threats and controls, including on how to adapt generic best practices to specific scenarios in the product by providing detailed specifications to stakeholders.\nExploit development experience, and good understanding of the necessary conditions to trigger different vulnerability types, and the maximum impact achievable.\nExperience with enterprise log collection and analysis platforms (e.g., Splunk, OSQuery).\nEducation and Certifications\nMaster's degree or equivalent experience preferred.\nSecurity certifications are a plus, including OSCP, OSEE, SANS/GIAC, CCSP, and CISSP.\nSoft Skills and Leadership\nExcellent verbal and written communication, with the ability to translate complex security concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nDemonstrated ability to design, document, and implement new security processes.\nExperience in a high-growth technology environment or SaaS business.\nAbility to remain calm under pressure, especially during incidents or audits.\nBasic Requirements\nBachelors Degree\n5+ year of experience in security Engineering\nTravel Requirements\nUnder 10%Relocation Provided\nNonePosition Type\nExperiencedReferral Payment Plan\nYesEEO Statement\nMotorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic.\nWe are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture, empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If you’d like to join our team but feel that you don’t quite meet all of the preferred skills, we’d still love to hear why you think you’d be a great addition to our team.\nWe’re committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience for candidates with disabilities, or other physical or mental health conditions. To request an accommodation, please complete this Reasonable Accommodations Form so we can assist you.\nMotorola Solutions adopte, favorise et promeut les principes de diversité, d’équité et d’inclusion. Nous encourageons et accueillons les candidatures de toutes les personnes qualifiées, quelles que soient leur race, origines ethnique, religion ou croyance, orientation sexuelle, identité et expression sexuelle, statut d’anciens combattants ou tout autre statut protégé par la Loi.\nNous sommes fiers de notre culture axée sur les personnes et les communautés, encourageant ainsi chaque Motorolan d’être la version la plus authentique de lui-même dans ses responsabilités afin de tenir la promesse d’un monde plus sécuritaire.\nSi vous souhaitez vous joindre à notre communauté mais croyez que vous ne possédez pas toutes les exigences requises pour le poste convoité, nous aimerions tout de même connaître les raisons pour lesquelles vous pensez être un excellent candidat pour notre équipe.\nNous offrons également des mesures d’adaptation pendant toutes les étapes du processus d’embauche afin de favoriser l’inclusion des personnes vivant avec un handicap physique et/ou mental. 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