Boston - Massachusetts; Carmel - Indiana; Chicago - Illinois; Lambertville - New Jersey; Remote - USA Hybrid Employment

Real Chemistry / 21GRAMS is hiring a Security Engineer — Application Security & Identity

Responsibilities

  • Perform security assessments of internally built software applications
  • Verify data flow integrity and traceability across systems
  • Design and implement security controls for application protection
  • Ensure secure handling and management of secrets
  • Implement data loss prevention measures for AI and large language models
  • Co-lead readiness evaluations for highly regulated production environments
  • Conduct threat modeling exercises to identify potential risks
  • Validate system hardening measures against security baselines
  • Map controls to compliance frameworks including SOC 2, contracts, and regulations
  • Define and enforce corporate and service identity architecture
  • Manage corporate identity using Entra ID
  • Oversee workload identity via AWS IAM and GitHub OIDC
  • Establish and maintain GitHub security configurations
  • Implement GitHub Advanced Security features such as CodeQL and SAST
  • Configure and monitor Dependabot for dependency vulnerability detection
  • Enforce secret scanning to prevent exposure of credentials
  • Implement branch protection rules and deployment environment safeguards
  • Develop standards for security tool integration across the development lifecycle
  • Standardize static application security testing using CodeQL and Semgrep
  • Set policies for software composition analysis with Dependabot and Snyk
  • Implement container image scanning using Trivy and ECR scanning tools
  • Define policy enforcement for infrastructure as code with OPA, Sentinel, and tfsec
  • Establish secure AWS configurations focusing on identity and access management
  • Enforce least privilege principles in IAM policies
  • Ensure comprehensive logging and audit trail requirements are met

Work Arrangement

Hybrid — available in New York City, Boston, Chicago, Carmel, San Francisco, or remotely within the US

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Real Chemistry / 21GRAMS
A global agency providing a full suite of services across healthcare communications and marketing to clients, including top players in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. 21GRAMS, part of Real Chemistry, takes an innovative approach to advertising, focusing on making healthcare more human.
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Job Details
Department Information Security
Category security
Posted 4 days ago