The posting
Hiring near our Irving, TX or Stamford, CT Centers of Excellence with a hybrid environment.
About Gartner IT:
Join a world-class team of skilled engineers who build creative digital solutions to support our colleagues and clients. We make a broad organizational impact by delivering cutting-edge technology solutions that power Gartner. Gartner IT values its culture of nonstop innovation, an outcome-driven approach to success, and the notion that great ideas can come from anyone on the team.
About the Role:
The Lead Security Engineer will be responsible for supporting Gartner’s AppSec function. This individual will play an integral role in, executing daily vulnerability Assessments functions; working closely with Information Security partners, and technology stakeholders to identify risks/vulnerabilities and collaborate with key stakeholders on remediation, developing and tracking risk/vulnerability remediation and prioritize effort across our various business units, partnering to implement security tools, technologies and controls with an appropriate balance of security, business, and user experience, while providing education and training; and engineer automation solutions and/or security tool integrations to assist with day-to-day AppSec responsibilities.
What you’ll do:
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to design secure applications, test applications for security weakness, and partner on remediation of identified issues.
- Mentor engineers and security champions on practical threat modeling techniques
- Triage and prioritize security risks, vulnerabilities, and exceptions in alignment with business impact and risk tolerance.
- Coordinate the orchestration, automation, and management of security technologies and platforms.
- Own day-to-day life cycle management, including identification, threat assessment, threat modeling and risk avoidance.
- Create reasonable and actionable reports showing direct impact to the security posture.
- Define and implement meaningful metrics to measure the effectiveness of security controls through KRIs and security scorecards.
- Serve as a subject-matter-expert for Application Security; act as a first point of contact for critical issues, security risk assessments and triaging CI/CD issues with Partners and stakeholders.
- Evaluate business and technical requirements to identify and implement tools, processes, and technologies to improve our security posture in our environments.
- Use data to drive prioritization, highlight systemic issues, and influence roadmap decisions
What you’ll need:
Ideal candidates will have 6-8 years of experience in a Security Engineering role with proven experience in DevSecOps, Cloud Security, and Application Security. Candidates should have strong independent critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and the ability to consistently evaluate and pivot based on the current organizational priorities.
Must Have:
- Experience using vulnerability scanning technologies, AST platforms, and cloud security tooling.
- Formal experience with threat modeling.
- Experience leading projects, initiatives, and resources through direct and indirect leadership.
- Deep knowledge of Assessing and prioritization of Risk with an ability to think like a bad actor and use that context to conduct threat models.
- Cloud experience (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Policy as Code (PaC) Concepts.
Nice to Have:
- Familiarity with technical security controls, guidelines, and frameworks outlined by standards such as SOC2, ISO 27001/27013, NIST 800-53.
- Ability to automate tasks and code solutions to repetitive problems.
- Scripting or programming experience (Java, .NET, HTML, Ruby, PHP, Perl, C#, Python, JavaScript, PowerShell, Bash)
- Experience with penetration testing and web application assessment.
Who you are:
- Proven communication, collaboration, and critical thinking skills.
- Ability to build trusting, meaningful relationships with peers, stakeholders, partners and suppliers.
- Ability to define and communicate risk in a business-relevant language to both non-technical and technical audiences.
- Ability to apply expert knowledge to solve complex business/technical issues strategically.
- Desire for life-long learning and continuous personal/professional development
Don’t meet every single requirement? We encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right candidate for this, or other roles!
What you will get:
- Competitive compensation.
- Limitless growth and learning opportunities.
- Ongoing mentorship and apprenticeship; Leadership courses, development programs, technical courses, certification opportunities and more!
- A collaborative and positive culture - join a diverse team of professionals that are as smart and driven as you.
- A chance to make an impact – your work will contribute directly to our strategy.
- Enjoy the flexibility of working from home and the energy of collaborating with peers in our dynamic offices.
- 20+ PTO days plus holidays and floating holidays in your first year.
- Extensive medical, dental insurance and vision plan.
- 401K with corporate match, immediate vesting.
- Health-and-wellness-related allowance programs.
- Parental leave.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Gartner Gives Charity Match. And much more!
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Who are we?
At Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT), we guide the leaders who shape the world.
Our mission relies on expert analysis and bold ideas to deliver actionable, objective business and technology insights, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities.
Since our founding in 1979, we’ve grown to 20,000 associates globally who support over 13,000 client enterprises in ~90 countries and territories. We do important, interesting and substantive work that matters. That’s why we hire associates with the intellectual curiosity, energy and drive to want to make a difference. The bar is unapologetically high. So is the impact you can have here.
What makes Gartner a great place to work?
Our vast, virtually untapped market potential offers limitless opportunities – opportunities that may not even exist right now – for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. How far you go is driven by your passion and performance.
We hire remarkable people who collaborate and win as a team. Together, our singular, unifying goal is to deliver results for our clients.
Our teams are inclusive and composed of individuals from different geographies, cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities and generations.
We invest in great leaders who bring out the best in you and the company, enabling us to multiply our impact and results. This is why, year after year, we are recognized worldwide as a great place to work.
Gartner is the world authority on AI
At Gartner, you’ll join a company at the very center of the AI revolution. Gartner has proactive, objective guidance throughout clients’ AI journeys. We set the standard for how organizations leverage artificial intelligence to drive meaningful impact. You’ll have access to unmatched resources, expertise, and technology, and play a key role in helping Gartner and our clients innovate and grow as we leverage AI to transform business and technology landscapes.
It’s an exciting time to be at Gartner, with limitless opportunities to make a real impact, grow your skills, and build a lasting, meaningful career in a field that’s reshaping the way we operate. If you’re passionate about AI and want to be part of a team that’s guiding the leaders who shape the world, Gartner is the place for you.
What do we offer?
Gartner offers world-class benefits, highly competitive compensation and disproportionate rewards for top performers.
In our hybrid work environment, we provide the flexibility and support for you to thrive — working virtually when it's productive to do so and getting together with colleagues in a vibrant community that is purposeful, engaging and inspiring.
Ready to grow your career with Gartner? Join us.
Gartner believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is 116,000 USD - 170,000 USD. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range, or be above or below the range, based on factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, professional achievement, business need, and location. In addition to base salary, employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role-based, uncapped sales incentive plan. Our talent acquisition team will provide the specific opportunity on our bonus or incentive programs to eligible candidates. We also offer market leading benefit programs including generous PTO, a 401k match up to $7,200 per year, the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount, and more.
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