Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Nielsen is a media and audience insights company focused on powering better media decisions through audience engagement data. Nielsen is seeking a Senior Manager within Product Security to lead Application Security engineering, expand cloud and application security initiatives, and transition security operations toward an automated, AI-driven DevSecOps model.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a high-performing Application Security engineering team, fostering professional development and aligning team priorities with organizational goals and operational challenges
- Drive a forward-thinking Application and Pipeline Security strategy that transitions operations to an autonomous, AI-driven DevSecOps model, pioneering agentic security workflows for automated remediation while establishing robust architectural guardrails and validation standards for secure AI-assisted development
- Partner collaboratively with Platform Engineering to define cloud security baselines and Policy-as-Code (PaC) guardrails
- Oversee application penetration testing initiatives ensuring findings are triaged, fed into pipeline guardrails, and remediated within SLA
- Establish comprehensive observability and regulatory standards across the development lifecycle, including supply chain safeguards (SBOM), automated CI/CD security gates, and risk-approval protocols to drive rapid, friction-free remediation and ensure high-confidence visibility
- Implement structured prioritization protocols to effectively resolve existing security vulnerabilities across application environments and cloud infrastructures
- Refine and calibrate scanning telemetry (SAST, DAST, SCA, IaC) to minimize false positives and enhance the delivery of high-confidence, actionable intelligence
- Design automated response triggers within AWS ecosystems utilizing native orchestration tools for rapid isolation and runtime threat containment
- Cultivate an environment where security is seamlessly embedded into native development workflows, including IDEs and CI/CD pipelines
- Architect and report on critical performance indicators, such as Mean Time to Remediate (MTTR) and Auto-Fix Acceptance Rates, to demonstrate program efficacy
Skills
- Minimum of 5-8 years of experience in specialized roles across Application Security or Cloud Engineering, including at least 3 years in a management or leadership capacity
- Demonstrated proficiency in designing AWS security governance and deploying automated incident mitigation within large-scale cloud ecosystems
- Comprehensive technical mastery of CI/CD orchestration, containerization safeguards, and the integration of SAST/DAST/SCA solutions within developer-centric workflows
- Advanced automation capabilities with the ability to architect security tooling
- Familiarity with emerging AI-enhanced security technologies, such as LLM-driven remediation tools and automated code-fixing platforms
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field like Computer Science or Cybersecurity, or equivalent professional background
- Substantial professional history serving as a Staff or Principal Software Engineer, or DevOps Specialist, preceding a career move into security management
- Demonstrated track record of building strong, collaborative partnerships with software engineering and platform teams without relying on dogmatic authority
- Possession of elite certifications such as AWS Certified Security – Specialty or AWS Solutions Architect – Professional
- 5-8 years with overseeing background
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Benefits
- Comprehensive health and wellness plans
- A 401(k) with a Nielsen company match
- A generous paid time off policy
- Depending on the role, a company-provided vehicle
- Depending on the role, discretionary incentive/bonus eligibility
- Bonuses, equity, or other incentives
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