Senior Python Developer

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Position: Senior Python Developer

Locations: New York, NY; Alpharetta, GA; or Arlington, VA (Hybrid)

Employment mode: Long-term contract role

Job Description:
• The mission of the Cloud Security & Developer Enablement team is to implement the Firm's Cybersecurity Strategy by architecting, engineering, deploying, and operating technical security controls and capabilities for the Enterprise.
• This is achieved by continued focus on architectural rigor, automation, agile delivery, and adoption of Cloud and application security control implementations by the development community.

What You ll Do:
• Be part of a team of engineers to implement client-specific security policies in the CI/CD security tools including but not limited to SAST, DAST, and SCA applications.
• Work with Development, DevOps, and Security teams to identify and develop automated security and compliance capabilities in support of DevOps processes.
• Define the security rules that need to be adhered to at a code level in web and mobile applications written in .NET, Java, React, Python, and other languages.
• With your development background and security knowledge, provide security guidance to developers in the form of secure coding standards and guidelines.
• Support security standards, and create templates and patterns to increase the efficiency and adoption of security programs.
• Work with our partners to implement, manage, and optimize security measures within our GitHub repositories to continuously improve code integrity and protect against vulnerabilities. Required skillset:
• Must have: 5+ years of software development experience using Python
• Working with APIs, including but not limited to ReST
• Unit testing frameworks
• Multi-process and multi-thread architecture
• Must have: 5+ years in Linux, strong bash scripting skills.
• Good understanding of SQL to extract relevant information for reporting and analysis
• Working knowledge of Windows environment, simple scripting dos-batch, etc.
• Bachelor s degree with 10+ years of work experience in the IT field
• Ability to process large datasets for reporting and analysis.

Desired Skillset:
• A self-starter, with a strong desire to learn new technologies and apply them to solve problems
• Knowledge of SAST, OSS technologies
• Ability to perform Python code reviews with minimal assistance
• Expertise in monitoring, alerting, reporting, and data analysis is desired.
• Experience with application build environments like Jenkins, TeamCity, etc.
• Devops container/orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Docker, Puppet, etc) are a plus
• Experience with evaluation, integration, and onboard of security tools such as DAST, RASP, WAF, vulnerability scanner results, container analyzers, open source scanning, etc is a plus