Web Application Security Specialist

5 hours ago


Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India NielsenIQ Full time

Job Description

NielsenIQ is enhancing its Application Security programs and is recruiting a Web Application Firewall Engineer who will be responsible for supporting the rollout and optimization of enterprise-grade Web Application Firewall (WAF) capabilities across all geographies and business units.

Key Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with Product Security Engineering and Cybersecurity teams to support delivery of strategic initiatives.
  • Work with engineering teams to ensure that products leverage Web Application Firewall capabilities as part of their lifecycle.
  • Actively contribute to building and maintaining Product Security team WAF services, including integrations of Infrastructure-As-Code WAF policies in the CI/CD process.
  • Report on security key performance indicators (KPIs) to drive improvements across engineering teams' security posture.
  • Contribute to Product Security Engineering team security education program and become an advocate within the organization's DevSecOps and application security community of practice.
  • Review IaaS / PaaS architecture roadmaps for the cloud to recommend baseline security controls and hardening requirements, supporting threat modeling of NIQ's products.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience working in a technical/hands-on application security, development, or DevOps professional environment.
  • Working knowledge of Web Application Firewalls & Application Gateway technologies.
  • Working knowledge of web stack, web security, and common vulnerabilities (e.g. SQLi, XSS, & beyond).
  • Experience maintaining & deploying Infrastructure-As-Code using CI/CD pipeline tools like GitHub Actions, Gitlab Pipelines, Jenkins, and Terraform or Helm.
  • Self-starter, technology and security hobbyist, enthusiast.
  • Lifelong learner with endless curiosity.

Bonus Points

  • Experience building serverless functions in Cloud environments.
  • Knowledge of Cloud Workload Protection.
  • Experience using SAST and DAST tools.
  • Demonstrated engagement in security conferences, training, learning, associations is highly desired and fully supported.

About NielsenIQ

NielsenIQ is the world's leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NielsenIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NielsenIQ delivers the Full View.

NielsenIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world's population.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

NielsenIQ is committed to reflecting the diversity of the clients, communities, and markets we measure within our own workforce. We exist to count everyone and are on a mission to systematically embed inclusion and diversity into all aspects of our workforce, measurement, and products. We enthusiastically invite candidates who share that mission to join us.



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