Senior Software Security Engineer

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. Our critical communications, video security and command center technologies support public safety agencies and enterprises alike, enabling the coordination that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals and safer businesses. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

Department OverviewThe Senior Software Security Engineer will be responsible for analysing software designs and implementations from a security perspective, identifying and proposing remediations to security issues throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
Job Description

This role is primarily hybrid, with occasional travel to our UK offices, likely to be Uxbridge / London.

Responsibilities

Security Design and Implementation

• Perform threat modelling, risk assessments, and architecture reviews to identify and mitigate risk.
• Support the engineering teams on definition on detailed security requirements to meet compliance requirements and industry best practices.
• Perform security code reviews looking for potential security vulnerabilities.
• Act as a subject matter expert to advise and answer questions from engineering and compliance teams on technical product security matters.

Security Testing

• Define and oversee the deployment of Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools to compile SBOMs of software components, helping to identify known vulnerabilities and license compliance violations.
• Define and oversee the deployment of automated security testing tools into CI pipelines, including Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), and Secret Detection scanning tools.
• Manual penetration testing of web applications (backend and frontend).Manual penetration testing skills in the domains of cloud infrastructure, embedded/OS or mobile are desirable.
• Write custom scripts or unit test cases to check for vulnerabilities or broken/missing security controls.
• Recommend improvements to existing security scanning tools and processes, and propose new ones.

Vulnerability Management

• Periodically triage the findings from the automated security scanning tools.
• Validate potential security vulnerabilities to determine whether they are actual true positives, or false positives (i.e. non-applicable) in the product context. Write proof of concept exploits when necessary to achieve this.
• Assess the risk of vulnerabilities and threats in order to help the business determine their remediation priority order.
• Communicate the identified security issues to engineering and compliance stakeholders, and manage them throughout the SDLC process to ensure they are properly addressed.

SDLC and DevSecOps Integration

• Establish and maintain secure coding standards, baseline product security requirements and more general best practices to provide guidance to development teams.
• Assist the program area with implementing a secure Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline utilizing DevSecOps principles and practices to increase automation.
• Implement automated security controls as part of CI/CD pipelines.

Incident Response and Compliance

• Support product security incident response processes, including root cause analysis (identify the affected product components, data, and the overall impact level) and definition of mitigation strategies.
• Define clear criteria and protocols for security incident response.
• Conduct post-incident analysis to compile lists of lessons learned, and measures to prevent similar incidents from reocurring, and refine response strategies.
• Monitor emerging security threats, vulnerabilities, and trends to proactively investigate, remediate, and integrate new protections.
• Ensure products comply with relevant security standards, certifications, and regulations (e.g., OWASP, NIST).

Basic Requirements

Required Qualifications

Experience and Education

• 5+ years of experience in Security Engineering with a focus on product security and/or application security.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related technical field.

Technical Skills

• In-depth knowledge of Linux and Docker container-based infrastructures, including their orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes).
• Working knowledge of techniques, standards, and state-of-the-art authentication and authorization technologies, applied cryptography, security vulnerabilities and remediations.
• Significant software development experience. Experience in Go (our main backend language), Typescript/Javascript, C/C++, Python and Bash is desirable.
• Working knowledge of web-related protocols and technologies (HTTP, REST APIs, DOM, CSP), networking protocols (IP, TCP, UDP), and security protocols (TLS).
• Experience in performing threat modeling, with a good grasp of common threat vectors and frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of security principles, best practices, and industry standards, such as NIST, ISO 27001, and CIS Critical Security Controls, OWASP ASVS and Testing Guides.
• Familiarity with industry-standard security frameworks such as OWASP and NIST.
• Experience with security tools such as SAST, DAST, IAST, and SCA.
• Exceptional analytical and investigative skills, with hands-on experience in root cause analysis.
• Knowledge of current and emerging threats and techniques for exploiting security vulnerabilities.
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline, security tools integration, and secure SDLC.
• Experience with cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud), and on best practices on how to secure cloud environments.

Desirable Qualifications

Advanced Expertise

• Familiarity with security considerations for AI/ML systems is desirable.
• Understanding of distributed systems design, implementation and operation.
• Understanding of privacy threats and controls, including on how to adapt generic best practices to specific scenarios in the product by providing detailed specifications to stakeholders.
• Exploit development experience, and good understanding of the necessary conditions to trigger different vulnerability types, and the maximum impact achievable.
• Experience with enterprise log collection and analysis platforms (e.g., Splunk, OSQuery).

Education and Certifications

• Master's degree or equivalent experience preferred.
• Security certifications are a plus, including OSCP, OSEE, SANS/GIAC, CCSP, and CISSP.

Soft Skills and Leadership

• Excellent verbal and written communication, with the ability to translate complex security concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to design, document, and implement new security processes.
• Experience in a high-growth technology environment or SaaS business.
• Ability to remain calm under pressure, especially during incidents or audits.

In return for your expertise, we’ll support you in this new challenge with coaching & development every step of the way. Also, to reward your hard work you’ll get:

• Competitive salary and bonus schemes

• Two weeks additional pay per year (holiday bonus).

• 25 days holiday entitlement + bank holidays.  

• Attractive defined contribution pension scheme.

• Private medical insurance.

• Employee stock purchase plan.

• Flexible working options. 

• Life assurance.

• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay.

• Career development support and wide ranging learning opportunities.

• Employee health and wellbeing support EAP, wellbeing guidance etc.

• Carbon neutral initiatives/goals.

• Corporate social responsibility initiatives including support for volunteering days.

• Well known companies discount scheme.

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Travel RequirementsUnder 10%
Relocation ProvidedNone
Position TypeExperienced

Referral Payment PlanYes

CompanyMotorola Solutions UK Limited

EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic. 

We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture, empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If you’d like to join our team but feel that you don’t quite meet all of the preferred skills, we’d still love to hear why you think you’d be a great addition to our team.