Summary
Position Summary
Job title:
API Security – Senior Consultant
About
At Deloitte, we do not offer you just a job, but a career in the highly sought-after risk Management field. We are one of the business leaders in the risk market. We work with a vision to make the world more prosperous, trustworthy, and safe. Deloitte’s clients, primarily based outside of India, are large, complex organizations that constantly evolve and innovate to build better products and services. In the process, they encounter various risks and the work we do to help them address these risks is increasingly important to their success—and to the strength of the economy and public security.By joining us, you will get to work with diverse teams of professionals who design, manage, and implement risk-centric solutions across a variety of domains. In the process, you will gain exposure to the risk-centric challenges faced in today’s world by organizations across a range of industry sectors and become subject matter experts in those areas.Our Risk and Financial Advisory services professionals help organizations effectively navigate business risks and opportunities—from strategic, reputation, and financial risks to operational, cyber, and regulatory risks—to gain competitive advantage. We apply our experience in ongoing business operations and corporate lifecycle events to help clients become stronger and more resilient. Our market-leading teams help clients embrace complexity to accelerate performance, disrupt through innovation, and lead in their industries. We use cutting-edge technology like AI/ML techniques, analytics, and RPA to solve Deloitte’s clients ‘most complex issues. Working in Risk and Financial Advisory at Deloitte US-India offices has the power to redefine your ambitions.
The Team
Cyber & Strategic Risk
Deloitte’s API Security is aligned with the industry preferred practices and leverages security framework to address the API security challenges in a comprehensive manner. This process enables the client to address key vulnerabilities and risks associated with APIs at different stages of their development lifecycle.Deloitte plays a crucial role in identifying and remediating vulnerabilities in APIs accessible from within an organization, exposed to the internet, or in the client’s API infrastructure that may potentially become a threat to an organization.
Work you’ll do
Roles & Responsibilities:
As a Senior Consultant in the API Security domain, you are responsible for adhering to the defined operating procedures and guidelines in the API security services, which includes the following:
- Support and consult with development and engineering teams in the areas of API security to discover and inventory all APIs and their exposed data across environments.
- Integrate automated security testing (e.g., SAST, DAST, API-specific scanners) into CI/CD pipelines.Provide remediation guidance and support to development teams for identified vulnerabilities.
- Implement and enforce security guardrails for API development, including authentication, authorization, and data protection.
- Collaborate with DevOps, cloud, and security teams to ensure consistent delivery of secure APIs and microservices.
- Stay current with emerging API security threats, tools, and best practices.
- Monitor API traffic for anomalous behavior and potential threats.
- Research and help develop security solutions to help secure applications (API Security, Data Protection, Identity Protection)
- Experience working with AWS or other cloud environments (development/architecture)
- Experience with cloud and API security standards (OWASP API Top 10, CIS Top 20)
- Perform security risk assessments for all proposed application-related (APIs) changes.
Required Skills
- 5+ years of experience in software development in one or more of the following programming languages, .NET, Python, Java/Springboot (REST), JavaScript (Node/React), and/or Go
- Experience with tools like OWASP ZAP, Veracode, Postman, etc.
- 3+ years of experience with API Security (Design patterns, Architecture, B2B/A2A/B2C Integration)
- Experience with API security tools like Noname, Salt, Neosec, etc.
- Experience with API Management solutions like Mulesoft, Apigee, etc.
- Technical and foundational knowledge of software engineering, computer systems, security engineering, authentication, and/or applied cryptography.
- Excellent knowledge of all web technologies, especially web services, web applications, Service Oriented Architectures, and network/web protocols
- Knowledge of application threat modeling, Remediation of OWASP API Top 10, CIS Top 10, SANS Top 25 a plus
- Strong understanding of authentication (OAuth2, JWT), authorization, and encryption for APIs.
- Familiarity with cloud-native environments, containers, and microservices architectures.
- Experience with attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures, and corresponding mitigation methods.
- Sound knowledge of all procedures, standards, and regulations for authorization and authentication, applied cryptography, and security vulnerabilities.
Qualification
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
- Experience with application monitoring, Managed Services business primarily on DevOps, Threat and Vulnerability Management for Application infrastructure, source code verification, link analysis, and threat modeling.
- Solid and demonstrable comprehension of Information Security including OWASP/SANS, Security Test Case development (or mis-use case), OOAD notations, emerging threats, attacks, and vulnerability management.
- Experience with automated monitoring, alerting, and incident response for APIs.
- Knowledge of regulatory and compliance requirements relevant to API security.
- Ability to research and characterize security threats to include identification and classification of application related threat indicators.
- Certification such as SANS Secure Coding, Security Engineering, Web Application Security, ISC2 CSSLP, OSCP etc. are preferred.
Good to have:
- Experience with integrating and operating SAST tools to identify code-level vulnerabilities early in the development lifecycle.
- Familiarity with DAST tools and methodologies for identifying runtime vulnerabilities in web applications and APIs.
- Proficiency in using SCA tools to detect and manage risks from third-party and open-source components,
- CI/CD integration
- Hands-on experience embedding security controls and automated testing (SAST, DAST, SCA) into CI/CD pipelines
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