Junior Data Security Engineer

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You'll be a contributing member of the Data Services team that builds and maintains the MCP server infrastructure powering enterprise security data operations at Verizon - vulnerability data tooling, data transfers to Google Cloud Storage, analytics data sharing, and the pipelines and services that connect it all together.

You'll work on real services with real ownership - not in isolation, but alongside senior engineers who will help you build context and judgment. You're expected to complete assigned work end-to-end, ask the right questions when you're stuck, and grow your understanding of how the data platform fits together over time.

You're expected to actively use AI tools in your daily workflow. This team works that way by design, and we expect Engineer IIs to come in ready to learn and apply those capabilities as a productivity accelerator, not just a convenience.

• Contributing to the team's MCP server - building, maintaining, and extending MCP tools that expose vulnerability data and security datasets to AI agents and internal consumers.

• Implementing feature work and bug fixes across data pipeline services under the direction of senior engineers - ingestion improvements, schema changes, and reliability work.

• Building and maintaining data transfer pipelines to Google Cloud Storage - moving structured security data reliably between enterprise systems and GCS buckets.

• Supporting data sharing integrations for analytics consumers - contributing to the services and exports that make security datasets available to downstream reporting and analytics platforms.

• Participating in breaking-change analysis when shared data schemas or MCP tool contracts evolve: understand downstream impact and surface concerns to senior engineers.

• Contributing to internal tooling and operator-facing surfaces where data platform capabilities are exposed - learning to think about what the consuming side needs, not just what the service provides.

• Contributing to GCP-hosted services and infrastructure work - deploying and maintaining workloads in Google Cloud Platform as the team expands its cloud footprint.

• Implementing security remediations identified through assessment, including application-layer vulnerability fixes and security configuration hardening, with senior engineer review.

• Applying cloud-native secrets management patterns under guidance:
  Key Vault integration, Managed Identity, encrypted connections, and JWT validation.

• Writing secure code by default - parameterized queries, input validation at system boundaries, least-privilege service accounts.

• Participating in white-box security reviews of internal services - beginning to read code with an attacker's eye and learning to identify common application-layer vulnerabilities.

• Contributing to documenting findings with specificity: file paths, line numbers, and reproduction steps under the direction of senior team members.

• Translating security findings into working code fixes with senior engineer guidance on scope and remediation approach.

• Using AI coding assistants as a daily accelerator - for…