Senior Security Engineer

Kensho is S&P Global’s hub for AI innovation and transformation. With expertise in machine learning, natural language processing, and data discovery, we develop and deploy novel solutions to innovate and drive progress at S&P Global and its customers worldwide. Kensho's solutions and research focus on business and financial generative AI applications, agents, data retrieval APIs, data extraction, and much more.

At Kensho, we hire talented people and give them the autonomy and support needed to build amazing technology and products. We collaborate using our teammates' diverse perspectives to solve hard problems. Our communication with one another is open, honest, and efficient. We dedicate time and resources to explore new ideas, but always rooted in engineering best practices. As a result, we can innovate rapidly to produce technology that is scalable, robust, and useful.

As a Security Engineer at Kensho, you are a thoughtful, collaborative, and seasoned technologist who will be working closely with the Infrastructure and product teams to ensure security across a number of systems and web applications. You will help us protect network boundaries, keep systems and network devices against attacks and provide security frameworks and processes to protect confidential data like passwords and client information.

We also value in-person collaboration, so this role will be hybrid, working on-site a minimum of two days a week at one of our Kensho hubs (Cambridge, MA or NYC), with additional on-site participation in team meetings or company events as required.

Kensho states that the anticipated base salary range for the position is 160k-190k. In addition, this role is eligible for an annual incentive bonus and equity plans. At Kensho, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.

What You'll Do:

• Implement security frameworks to ensure Kensho maintains a security envelope aligned with S&P Global standards.

• Developing and updating security plans: Planning and managing security projects and initiatives

• Emergency response: Demonstrating excellent surveillance and emergency response skills

• Identifying and mitigating security vulnerabilities: Perform static and dynamic vulnerability assessments and incorporate tools in the SDLC using commercial and open source tools.

• Implementing de-escalation techniques: Prioritizing training in de-escalation techniques to effectively deal with conflicts

• Maintain a GenAI security posture: Help establish and enable a GenAI security posture at an enterprise scale and have complete oversight of the AI Accelerator Security program

• Risk assessment and management: Spotting risky behaviors and configurations in critical infrastructure components to stop network intrusions and preempt cyberattacks

• Auditing policies and controls continuously: Driving the cybersecurity process forward by regularly auditing the policies and controls in place

• Building a vulnerability management program: Ensuring that people in the organization continuously check for known vulnerabilities and take appropriate steps to remediate them

• Design and implement security controls and processes across Kensho and provide monitoring to ensure compliance.

• Analyze and recommend security practices and tools for engineering teams to incorporate into the software development lifecycle.

• Execute security architecture reviews for e2e application frameworks.

• Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), working with Infrastructure teams to continuously improve.

• Support SIEM integration for the security stack.

What You'll Need:

• Five or more years of experience as a security engineer.

• Experience securing modern web applications and distributed data infrastructure in a cross-team setting.

• Prior experience working with enterprise security technologies such as WAF, CSPM, OAuth2, and SIEM.

• Strong understanding of cryptography and current best practices.

• Experience with penetration testing tools, techniques and methodologies and understanding of common vulnerabilities and remediation strategies.

• Three or more years experience writing code in Python, Javascript, Java, or Go.

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