Key Responsibilities :

- Authentication : Stand up and operate authentication flows across all Strike Team projects JWT, AWS Cognito, SSO integrations, and machine-to-machine auth patterns.

- Authorization & Access Controls : Implement role-based and attribute-based access control patterns. Maintain a reusable authorization library that Strike Teams consume rather than rebuild.

- Compliance Implementation : Translate compliance requirements (SOC 2, regional data privacy, customer-driven controls) into concrete technical controls encryption, key management, audit logging, data residency.

- IP & Network Controls : Implement IP restrictions, VPC-level network segmentation, and traffic policies that protect customer data without blocking legitimate Strike Team workflows.

- Security Patterns Library : Build and maintain a library of vetted security components (auth middleware, secret management helpers, audit log clients) that every Strike Team uses by default.

- Security Reviews & Audit Support : Review Strike Team designs for security gaps, support customer audits, and partner with the QA Architect on security-focused testing standards.

KPIs & Success Metrics :

- Security controls implemented across all Strike Team projects (auth, authz, encryption, audit logging) with no critical gaps.

- Reusable security library adoption share of teams consuming vetted components rather than rebuilding.

- Compliance readiness : SOC 2 and data-privacy controls in place; successful customer audit support.

- Time-to-remediate security findings within SLA.

- Zero preventable authentication or access-control incidents.

Key Skills & Experience :

- Education : Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field.

- Experience : 8+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on security implementation auth systems, compliance controls, or platform security.

Technical Proficiency :

1. Expert-level knowledge of authentication and authorization patterns (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, SAML).

2. Hands-on experience with AWS Cognito, IAM, KMS, and Secrets Manager.

3. Strong backend development skills (Python, Java, or TypeScript) this is a hands-on engineering role, not a pure advisory one.

4. Working knowledge of common compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR) and how to translate them into engineering controls.

5. Familiarity with secure CI/CD patterns and supply-chain security (SBOM, dependency scanning).

- Engineering Excellence : Track record of shipping production-grade security components. Comfortable being a coding security engineer, not just a reviewer.

- Domain Context : (Preferred) Experience in regulated industries (insurance, finance, healthcare) or multi-tenant SaaS.

Preferred Skills & Experience :

- AI Security : Experience securing LLM-based applications prompt injection defenses, output filtering, model access controls.

- Cloud Security : AWS Security Specialty certification or equivalent.

- Guidewire Knowledge : Familiarity with Guidewire Cloud security model.

- Threat Modeling : Hands-on experience running threat modeling sessions for production systems.