Senior Manager, Application and Pipeline Security
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Senior Manager leading Nielsen’s application and pipeline security for its media insights business. Driving AWS governance, AI-driven DevSecOps, automated remediation, and security engineering team performance.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and mentor a high-performing Application Security engineering team
- Align team priorities with organizational goals and operational challenges
- Drive Application and Pipeline Security strategy toward an autonomous, AI-driven DevSecOps model
- Establish architectural guardrails and validation standards for secure AI-assisted development
- Partner with Platform Engineering on cloud security baselines and Policy-as-Code guardrails
- Oversee application penetration testing, triage findings, integrate them into pipeline guardrails, and ensure remediation within SLA
- Establish observability, regulatory standards, SBOM safeguards, CI/CD security gates, and risk-approval protocols
- Prioritize and resolve security vulnerabilities across application environments and cloud infrastructures
- Calibrate SAST, DAST, SCA, and IaC scanning telemetry to reduce false positives
- Design AWS automated response triggers for rapid isolation and runtime threat containment
- Embed security into IDEs and CI/CD pipelines
- Define and report performance indicators such as MTTR and Auto-Fix Acceptance Rates
- Define policies, ensure compliance, and adapt departmental plans to operational challenges
- Provide subject matter guidance to employees, colleagues, and customers
Requirements:
- Minimum of 5-8 years of experience in specialized roles across Application Security or Cloud Engineering
- At least 3 years in a management or leadership capacity
- Proficiency in designing AWS security governance and deploying automated incident mitigation within large-scale cloud ecosystems
- Technical mastery of CI/CD orchestration, containerization safeguards, and SAST/DAST/SCA integrations
- Advanced automation capabilities and ability to architect security tooling
- Familiarity with AI-enhanced security technologies, including LLM-driven remediation tools and automated code-fixing platforms
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as Computer Science or Cybersecurity, or equivalent professional background
- Substantial professional history as a Staff or Principal Software Engineer, or DevOps Specialist, before moving into security management
- Track record of partnerships with software engineering and platform teams
- AWS Certified Security – Specialty or AWS Solutions Architect – Professional certifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
Benefits:
- Comprehensive health and wellness plans
- 401(k) with a Nielsen company match
- Generous paid time off policy
- Company-provided vehicle (depending on the role)
- Discretionary incentive/bonus eligibility (depending on the role)
- Potential bonuses, equity, or other incentives
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