We are seeking a Lead Security Engineer to become part of our team. This position calls for working autonomously alongside the client team, including senior leadership on the client side, paired with a proactive mindset. It is a completely hands-on role involving daily engagement across numerous issues, making the ability to prioritize work, clear obstacles, and communicate across teams just as vital as technical expertise. Being proactive in this role means continuously working to elevate security standards while improving, updating, and expanding processes, security pipelines, and alerting systems.

Responsibilities

Assist with vulnerability management across applications and microservices
Offer direction on secure authentication, authorization, secrets management, and data protection
Assess, improve, and suggest application security automation within CI/CD pipelines to catch and fix security issues early
Track, review, and triage alerts and logs from a range of security platforms, including Security Scorecard and other third-party monitoring tools
Handle triage, remediation,



and escalation of security alerts, events, and reports
Keep up to date on emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and attacker behaviors, using this insight to strengthen detection and response
Assist with responding to and resolving vulnerabilities surfaced through the penetration testing program
Partner with Engineering, IT, Infrastructure, and Compliance teams to roll out security controls aligned with frameworks like NIST, HITRUST, and CIS
Uphold production security procedures and track relevant metrics
Research and build enhanced security training materials
Operate independently to meet goals defined by leadership, while contributing effectively within a team setting
Push continuous improvement by spotting automation opportunities, incorporating emerging best practices, and boosting detection and response capabilities
Assess and apply AI/LLM based tooling to speed up triage, deduplicate and

📌 Lead Security Engineer (Argentina)
🏢 EPAM Systems
📍 Argentina