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Lead Security Engineer

Role overview

Summary

This role focuses on designing and implementing security automation to validate vulnerabilities and improve security practices. You will collaborate with engineering teams to enhance security measures and ensure safe testing processes, contributing to the overall security posture of the organization.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in security engineering with a strong development focus.
  • 5+ years of experience with Python for security automation and exploit scripting.
  • Leadership experience guiding technical approaches and code quality for security tooling.
  • Strong knowledge of OWASP Top 10 and common API flaws such as IDOR.
  • Preferred: Upper-Intermediate English (B2) proficiency, both written and spoken.

Responsibilities

  • Design automated exploit chains that sequence vulnerabilities to validate real-world impact
  • Build autonomous scripts and tools to orchestrate network and web application exploit workflows
  • Implement safe execution controls to validate issues in production without disrupting services
  • Analyze threat intelligence to prioritize validation scenarios and detection gaps

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Communication

About the company

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EPAM Systems

  • IT Services & Consulting
  • XLarge
  • 10,001+
Since 1993, EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE: EPAM) has used its software engineering expertise to become a leading global provider of digital engineering, cloud and AI-enabled transformation services, and a leading business and experience consulting partner for global enterprises and ambitious startups. We address our clients’ transformation challenges by fusing EPAM Continuum’s integrated strategy, experience and technology consulting with our 30+ years of engineering execution to speed our clients’ time to market and drive greater value from their innovations and digital investments. We make GenAI real with our AI LLM orchestration, testing and engineering solutions, EPAM DIAL, EPAM EliteA™ and EPAM AI/RUN™, respectively. We deliver globally, but engage locally with our expert teams of consultants, architects, designers and engineers, making the future real for our clients, our partners and our people around the world. We believe the right solutions are the ones that improve people’s lives and fuel competitive advantage for our clients across diverse industries. Our thinking comes to life in the experiences, products and platforms we design and bring to market. Added to the S&P 500 and the Forbes Global 2000 in 2021 and recognized by Glassdoor and Newsweek as a Top 100 Best Workplace, our multidisciplinary teams serve customers across six continents. We are proud to be among the top 15 companies in Information Technology Services in the Fortune 1000 and to be recognized as a leader in the IDC MarketScapes for Worldwide Experience Build Services, Worldwide Experience Design Services and Worldwide Software Engineering Services. Learn more at www.epam.com.

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Job description

We are looking for a Lead Security Engineer who combines development depth with offensive security to design autonomous exploit chains and continuous validation. You will help build safe, production-aware automation for web and network security testing and collaborate across engineering to raise the security bar. Responsibilities Design automated exploit chains that sequence vulnerabilities to validate real-world impact Build autonomous scripts and tools to orchestrate network and web application exploit workflows Implement safe execution controls to validate issues in production without disrupting services Configure and scale continuous automated security validation frameworks and test harnesses Analyze threat intelligence to prioritize validation scenarios and detection gaps Conduct threat modeling to identify high-risk attack paths and required security controls Validate and triage findings aligned to OWASP Top 10 and API authorization weaknesses Collaborate with engineering to drive remediation plans and verify fixes Document attack logic, automation results, and risk narratives for technical audiences Guide secure testing standards and code review practices for security automation Improve vulnerability management workflows by integrating repeatable validation into pipelines Requirements 5+ years of experience in security engineering with a strong development focus 5+ years of experience with Python for security automation and exploit scripting Leadership experience guiding technical approaches and code quality for security tooling Project experience designing multi-stage exploit chaining and validation workflows Strong knowledge of OWASP Top 10 and common API flaws such as IDOR Strong threat modeling skills for web and networked systems Strong vulnerability management skills, including validation and remediation support Strong cyber threat intelligence skills to prioritize and contextualize findings Strong understanding of network and web infrastructure, including OSI model and core protocols Strong communication skills to explain risk and safe testing approaches to stakeholders Upper-Intermediate English (B2) proficiency, both written and spoken Nice to have Go language for exploit development and security tooling Bash scripting for automation in security validation environments OAuth protocol knowledge for automating authentication flows safely Multi-Factor Authentication knowledge, including programmatic handling of TOTP/MFA flows

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