Senior Cybersecurity Software Engineer (Remote), Texas

Job Description

The Information Security Strategy and Analytics team is looking for an experienced technologist with expertise in software engineering and information security to help improve security at AbbVie. In this role, you will develop software to perform automated tests of security controls and support efforts to measure enterprise security control coverage and application security maturity. The ideal candidate will possess a comprehensive understanding of both enterprise IT and information security, strong software development skills, and the ability to structure what you learn in a way that is consumable and actionable by senior leadership.

This position can be remote anywhere in the U.S.

In this role, you’ll be responsible for:

This position is a 50/50 split of software development and security engineering

Transforming a proof-of-concept (PoC) solution developed in Python designed to validate security control effectiveness into a mature application. You will lead efforts to mature and expand the existing code base, implement additional control validation use cases, and make the data accessible to others via REST APIs and/or interactive websites.

Using your strong enterprise IT and information security knowledge to measure application security and security control coverage.

Supporting additional software development and reporting initiatives as required.

Tools and skills you will use in this role:

Experience with hybrid cloud solutions with both on-premise and cloud-hosted components.

Developing software, REST APIs, and websites in Python and web development languages.

Git for version control and code management.

Enterprise IT and Information Security knowledge spanning across infrastructure, networking, application development, and other key enterprise IT components and associated Information Security disciplines.

The ability to clearly communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences.