DevSecOps Engineer (AWS/Kubernetes)

DevSecOps Engineer (AWS/Kubernetes)

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Job Description

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Overview

CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces.  Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives. 

We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers.  We’ve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors.  We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation.  This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors.  By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.   

CoStar builds and operates web applications related to real estate.  Web applications include Apartments.com, Homes.com, Lands.com CoStar.com, and 75 other web applications.  The backbone of our product security is our product platform security environment, which consists of commercial and custom developed security controls that run within the IDE, the CI/CD system, across cloud and Kubernetes platforms, and our product edge.  Our product platform security engineering group builds and operates centralized controls using infrastructure as code, scripting, and API integrations to scale security across all web applications in a consistent manner.

We're looking for a few more innovative, code driven security engineers to join our team and expand the features, functions, and flow of our product platform security suite.  Any level is an option - from associate to lead architect. 

This position is located in Washington, DC or Richmond, VA and offers a hybrid schedule of 3 days onsite, 2 days remote.

Responsibilities

Features (responsibilities and goals) of our product platform security suite: (AKA - what you will be building and evolving along a rockstar team that learns from and pushes each other to do great things!)

• Real-time vulnerability feedback in the IDE for insecure build patterns and artifacts (1P code, 3P code, containers, IAC, secrets)

• Gate environment builds to enforce vulnerability remediation SLAs

• Dynamic run-time scans of pre-prod to gate vulnerabilities from escaping into production

• Continual attack surface management pen testing and exploit validation

• Cloud security posture management and workload protection

• Cloud IAM security

• Kubernetes run-time security controls

• Cloud platform threat hunting

• API Security management

• WAF and Bot controls

• Integrated runtime/drift vulnerability feedback into respective product dev team's bug tracking system

• Federated cloud security hardening, detection and enforcement

• Data security posture management

• Hunting for secrets and sensitive data leakage in logs, code, and documentation

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required from an accredited, not for profit university or college (preferably in Computer Science, Cybersecurity or a related field)

• A track record of commitment to prior employers 

• 2+ years solid experience and understanding of how to apply security at scale in one or more of: CI/CD system, Kubernetes platform, cloud environment, or CDN

• Demonstrated ability to author scripts or IAC from scratch in either Python, PowerShell, Ansible, CloudFormation, Terraform, or similar language

• Experience working in a software development environment with a mature CI/CD

• Passion for solving complex challenges, innovating, and engaging in your work

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

• Strong communication skills with both software development and software leadership audiences

• In-depth understanding of various assessment tools

• Knowledge of infrastructure operations across databases, network, and system administration

• Ability to communicate with different levels of leadership conveying risk and driving urgency for risk remediation.

• Ability to mentor and train team members to prioritize security efforts effectively.

• A self-starter who can advance the application security program and follow-through ideas to comp