R&D Security Engineer
3M
- Maplewood, MN
- $155,615-190,196 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Partner with 3M IT and Security to design and implement robust architectures for cloud-based solutions developed by R&D development teams.
- Collaborate with 3M R&D development, operations, IT, and security teams integrate security measures throughout the entire software development lifecycle.
- Represent R&D development on security assessments and audits of cloud environments, identifying vulnerabilities, design issues, use cases, and propose appropriate remediation strategies.
- Develop and maintain R&D security policies, reference architectures, use cases, design documentation, roadmaps, standards, and guidelines specific to cloud environments.
- Support access controls, authentication mechanisms, and encryption protocols to safeguard sensitive R&D data stored and transmitted to the cloud.
- Participate as a R&D representative in incident response management.
- Monitor and analyze R&D cloud hosted solutions for security vulnerabilities, respond to potential threats, and create backlog (tasks) for R&D development teams to remediate. Use automation as needed.
- Perform audits of internally developed R&D software, workflows and deployments to support a secure software supply chain.
- Maintain a deep understanding of security trends, emerging threats, and technologies, and recommend adjustments to R&D development strategy as needed.
- Collaborate with third-party vendors, stakeholders, and partners to ensure the security of integrated solutions and services.
- Provide expert-level guidance and support in cloud-related compliance assessments, business requirements, and certifications.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution
- Eight (8) years of professional experience in security roles supporting software development in a private, public, government, or military environment.
- Five (5) years of Cloud Security background with AWS in a private, public, government, or military environment.
- Master’s degree in Information Technology or Cybersecurity from an accredited institution
- Proficiency in Python/PySpark/Scala (any object-oriented language concepts), ML Libraries
- Hands-on experience in extracting data from APIs, build data pipelines.
- Exceptional background in data engineering, data systems, and data governance and having comfort working with structured and unstructured data and analyses. Exposure to data and data types in the Materials science, chemistry, computational chemistry, physics space a definite plus, but not required.
- Industry-recognized certifications such as [CISSP, CCSP, AWS Certified Security – Specialty] are highly desirable.
- Proficiency in scripting or programming languages for automating security tasks
- Experience in R&D material and/or industrial science.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders.