API Security Technical Engineer- Phoenix, AZ

API Security Technical Engineer
- Phoenix, AZ

Details:

American Express is seeking API Security-Technical Engineer with proven strong technical competence and capability to contribute towards the success of enterprise-wide API security initiatives. The Senior API Security Engineer serves as a subject matter expert in API security and plays an integral role in managing, monitoring & reporting on API security risk reduction.

• Perform ongoing governance and follow-through with API owners to ensure implementation of threat-based requirements.
• Develop, deliver and keep up-to-date API security standard requirements and design patterns.
• Validate implementation of API security controls against outputs of vulnerability testing tools to enable auditability and verifiability.
• Serve as an API security technical advisor to application teams.
• Evangelize API security design principles.
• Collaborate as API security subject matter expert within the organization.

• Direct hands on experience developing and securing web APIs and web applications: REST, SOAP, gRPC.
• Direct hands‑on experience with security testing of web services and web APIs.
• Solid hands‑on experience with leading threat modeling exercises for applications and services.
• Solid understanding of risk management, security architecture and secure SDLC practices.
• Strong experience and understanding of API identity and access management controls: OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT
• Strong experience and understanding of familiarity with cryptography controls:
  Data at rest, in motion and in-use.
• Experience with industry standards and frameworks: NIST 800-53, NIST CSF, OWASP, SANS Top 25.
• Familiarity with database architectures:
  Oracle, SQL and No
  
  SQL Databases.
• Information security professional certifications such as SANS GIAC, CISSP, CISM.
• Experience with service-oriented architectures and web services security.

• Experience mentoring application security and secure development practices to team.
• Experience with Dev Ops processes in a Cloud/SaaS environment.
• Experience architecting, securing, and operating one or more public cloud environments:
  Amazon Web Services, Google App Engine, Azure, and Oracle Cloud.
• Experience with one or more emerging programming languages:
  Go, Rust.