Harvard Partners Trusted IT Advisors

Principal Software Security Engineer

Johnston, Rhode IslandContract
$80 - $90 hourly
About the Job
As the Principal Software Security Engineer you will be responsible for designing, building, and supporting our identity applications and APIs, primarily using Java.

Primary responsibilities include:
  • Analyzes, designs, programs, debugs, supports, and modifies software
  • Partner with business line and architects during initial project stages to ensure the accuracy of requirements and provide critical input and direction from a technology perspective
  • Completes documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance
  • Provide guidance to technology and business partners on complexity and delivery
  • Provide technical team guidance on code reviews, branching strategy, and release coordination
  • Ensuring successful incremental product releases

Qualifications:
Preferred Skills/Experience:
  • 8+ years of software development experience.
  • Hands-on experience in Java stack (including Spring Framework, Spring Boot).
  • Solid experience interfacing with back-end applications using RESTful services.
  • Solid experience in key design patterns and best practices (eg. separation of concerns).
  • Experience working in AWS cloud environments & tools and in jacoco, SonarQube, CheckStyle, JMeter and JProfiler.
  • Experience in deploying services using containers/wars(dockers/k8s).
  • Strong background in git and continuous delivery environments where repeatable processes are highly automated.
  • Solid experience in micro service frameworks (eg: Spring Boot).
  • Experience with event driven architectures and platforms (Kafka, SQS, etc.).
  • Experience in writing unit & integration test cases for services.
  • Experience in database concepts – proficient in writing relational database queries.
  • Ability to develop functional, technical and user interface designs for an application that meets the defined requirements.
  • Experience in highly secured online environments that use n-tier designs and extensive firewalling to enhance security.
  • Strong understanding of modern identity, authN, and authZ.
  • Expertise in architecting, designing and developing highly scalable large scale and available applications.
  • Develops programming guidelines/standards and makes them accessible to other programmers.
  • Ability to lead, inspire, and motivate teams through effective communication.
  • Strong focus on security.
  • Strong communication (both oral and written) and interpersonal skills.

Location: Johnston RI, Phoenix AZ or Iselin NJ.