Security Engineer - Lead Engineer

FICO (NYSE: FICO) is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in 100+ countries make better decisions. Join our world-class team today and fulfill your career potential!

The Opportunity

“As a part of FICO’s highly modern and innovative analytics and decision platform, the Cyber-Security Engineer will help shape the next generation security for FICO’s Platform. You will address cutting edge security challenges in a highly automated, complex, cloud & microservices driven environments inclusive of design challenges and continuous delivery of security functionality and features to the FICO platform as well as the AI/ML capabilities used on top of the FICO platform." – VP of Engineering.

What You’ll Contribute

• Secure the design of next next-generation FICO Platform, its capabilities, and services.
• Support full-stack security architecture design from cloud infrastructure to application features for FICO customers.
• Work closely with product managers, architects, and developers on implementing the security controls within products.
• Develop and maintain Kyverno policies for enforcing security controls in Kubernetes environments.
• Collaborate with platform, DevOps, and application teams to define and implement policy-as-code best practices.
• Contribute to automation efforts for policy deployment, validation, and reporting.
• Stay current with emerging threats, Kubernetes security features, and cloud-native security tools.
• Implement required controls and capabilities for the protection of FICO products and environments.
• Build & validate declarative threat models in a continuous and automated manner.
• Prepare the product for compliance attestations and ensure adherence to best security practices.
• Provide expertise as a subject matter expert regarding edge services for public/private cloud information system controls related infrastructure, policy, and decision-making processes.
• Provide timely resolutions for security configuration or solutions in support of service availability.
• Work on problems of diverse scope where analysis of situation requires evaluation and troubleshooting including network packet analysis, Linux or Windows DNS, certificates lifecycle, logfile analysis, and related.

What We’re Seeking

• Strong knowledge and hands-on experience with Kyverno and OPA/Gatekeeper (optional but a plus).
• Experience in threat modeling, code reviews, security testing, vulnerability detection, attacker exploit techniques, and methods for their remediation.
• Hands-on experience with programming languages, such as: Java, Python, etc.
• Experience of deploying services and securing cloud environments, preferably AWS
• Experience of deploying and securing containers, container orchestration and mesh technologies (such as EKS, K8S, ISTIO).
• Experience with Crossplane to manage cloud infrastructure declaratively via Kubernetes.
• Certifications in Kubernetes or cloud security (e.g., CKA, CKAD, CISSP) are desirable
• Ability to articulate complex architectural challenges with the business leadership and product management teams.
• Independently drive transformational security projects across teams and organizations.
• Experience with securing event streaming platforms like Kafka or Pulsar.
• Experience with ML/AI model security and adversarial techniques within the analytics domains.
• Hands-on experience with IaC (Such as Terraform, Cloudformation, Helm) and with CI/CD pipelines (such as Github, Jenkins, JFrog).
• Resourceful problem-solver skilled at navigating ambiguity and change.
• Customer-focused individual with strong analytical problem-solving skills and solid communication abilities.

Our Offer to You

• An inclusive culture strongly reflecting our core values:  Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others.
• The opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally by leveraging your unique strengths and participating in valuable learning experiences.
• Highly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs that encourage you to bring your best every day and be recognized for doing so.
• An engaging, people-first work environment offering work/life balance, employee resource groups, and social events to promote interaction and camaraderie.

Why Make a Move to FICO?

At FICO, you can develop your career with a leading organization in one of the fastest-growing fields in technology today – Big Data analytics.  You’ll play a part in our commitment to help businesses use data to improve every choice they make, using advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, optimization, and much more.

FICO makes a real difference in the way businesses operate worldwide:

•    Credit Scoring — FICO® Scores are used by 90 of the top 100 US lenders.

•    Fraud Detection and Security — 4 billion payment cards globally are protected by FICO fraud systems.

•    Lending — 3/4 of US mortgages are approved using the FICO Score.

Global trends toward digital transformation have created tremendous demand for FICO’s solutions, placing us among the world’s top 100 software companies by revenue. We help many of the world’s largest banks, insurers, retailers, telecommunications providers and other firms reach a new level of success. Our success is dependent on really talented people – just like you – who thrive on the collaboration and innovation that’s nurtured by a diverse and inclusive environment. We’ll provide the support you need, while ensuring you have the freedom to develop your skills and grow your career.  Join FICO and help change the way business thinks!

Learn more about how you can fulfil your potential at www.fico.com/Careers

FICO promotes a culture of inclusion and seeks to attract a diverse set of candidates for each job opportunity. We are an equal employment opportunity employer and we’re proud to offer employment and advancement opportunities to all candidates without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Research has shown that women and candidates from underrepresented communities may not apply for an opportunity if they don’t meet all stated qualifications. While our qualifications are clearly related to role success, each candidate’s profile is unique and strengths in certain skill and/or experience areas can be equally effective. If you believe you have many, but not necessarily all, of the stated qualifications we encourage you to apply.

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