Engineer III, Software

F5 is looking for a hands-on Security Engineer III with experience owning vulnerability management and code security program. F5 s Edge 2.0 platform provides global, scalable, and secure way to deploy applications! In this position, you will have responsibility for vulnerability management of open-source components in the software components that make up the platform. You will also be responsible for code security and handle static and multifaceted code scanning and write policies and procedures around the lifecycle of the code and associated vulnerabilities.

Responsibilities:

• We collaborate with software architects, security defenders, Operations, SRE, compliance specialists, and business leaders to understand the components of the platform and their requirements around vulnerability management, static and dynamic code analysis depending on the component s structure and place in the platform.

• We write and maintain policies and procedures around vulnerability management and code analysis following industry methodologies and compliance directives.

• We integrate with scanning tools and provide mentorship to the developers around integration, how to read the findings, and how to improve the output.

• We work with architects of underlying frameworks to minimize the number of reported vulnerabilities when there is a significant code reuse.

• We work with other members of the DevOps team to introduce tooling to increase clarity and better quantify the vulnerability remediation.

• We work with engineering teams to incorporate the best standards from vulnerability management and code analysis into the SDLC.

• We work with other team members to safely introduce dynamic code analysis tools.

• We participate in Incident Response when appropriate.

Minimum qualifications:

• BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 4+ years of secure software development experience.

• Good understanding of Docker container building process.

• Experience with vulnerability management systems like Snyk, Whitesource, Trivy, Dependency-check, Nancy etc

• Experience with SAST tools like Coverity, FindSecBugs, Fortify, Veracode, etc

• Familiarity with microservices architecture, Docker and Kubernetes.

• Good understanding of complexities and security challenges in large-scale distributed systems.