Engineer, Cybersecurity

Company Description

NIQ 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, NIQ 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—NIQ delivers the Full View™.

NIQ, is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world’s population. For more information, visit NIQ.com.

Job Description

Engineer, Cyber – Product Security 

REFID215191 -  Chennai/Pune

NielsenIQ is maturing 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.

As the Web Application Firewall Engineer, you will be responsible for integration, maintenance and analyses of the tools and technologies used in securing NIQ products/applications. You will oversee WAF capabilities within a multi-national matrixed environment. The WAF engineer will have the opportunity to expand and optimize the current Web Application Firewall Services in use, and integrate them as part of a DevSecOps transformation program.

This position will involve working closely with development/engineering teams, business units, technical and non-technical stakeholders, educating them and driving the adoption and maturity of the NIQ’s Product & Application Security programs.

Responsibilities 

• Collaborate within Product Security Engineering and Cybersecurity teams to support delivery of its strategic initiatives.
• Work with engineering teams (Developers, SREs & QAs) to ensure that products are leveraging 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 and recommend baseline security controls and hardening requirements, supporting threat modelling of NIQ’s products.

Qualifications

• 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 if you:

• Have experience building serverless functions in Cloud environments.
• Have 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.
• Ability to think like a hacker.

Additional Information

• Enjoy a flexible and rewarding work environment with peer-to-peer recognition platforms. 
• Recharge and revitalize with help of wellness plans made for you and your family. 
• Plan your future with financial wellness tools. 
• Stay relevant and upskill yourself with career development opportunities

Our Benefits

• Flexible working environment
• Volunteer time off
• LinkedIn Learning
• Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)

About NIQ

NIQ 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, NIQ 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—NIQ delivers the Full View™. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world’s population.

For more information, visit NIQ.com

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