Job Abstract

JOB PURPOSE-

The Sr. Manager, Application Security at Skechers is a key member of our global information security leadership team who will work as a subject matter expert, trusted partner, and ambassador to help protect Skechers critical customer facing and core business applications. We are looking for someone who can help lead our practice; who appreciates that securing applications requires an end to end approach that accounts for the full development, integration, and operations lifecycle.

Skechers’ digital technology strategy demands an individual who is well versed in modern application development and public cloud infrastructure and brings a broad understanding of secure development and information security best practices. The candidate who will find the most success and fulfillment brings a genuine passion for information security, a love for learning, a positive attitude, a desire to roll up their sleeves and dive into the deep end, and a belief that being excellent doesn’t mean you have to give up on having fun. 

ESSENTIAL JOB RESULTS-

• Lead the team and practice responsible for application and cloud security at Skechers
• Remain accountable for the selection and maintenance of tools and technology which :
  • Help protect production applications, e.g. bot mitigation, code injection prevention, WAF, etc.
  • Support application risk assessment, secure code training, code review, etc.
  • Enable cloud security posture management, workload protection, and security monitoring
• Collaborate with various groups in the global technology organization on the development of standards and best practice guidelines and procedures
• Participate in the development of application security training plans and provide input on security awareness and secure coding initiatives
• Proactively identify potential issues at various stages of the SDLC and provide input on issue avoidance
• Work with development, cloud engineering, and devops teams to provide remediation guidance and perform post-remediation validation
• Coordinate and manage periodic application audits and manual penetration tests
• Plan and oversee internal and external security assessments and red team exercises
• Stay up-to-date and informed on changing IT and information security trends
• Create, communicate, and continuously monitor and improve metrics and KPIs
• Manage vendor relationships for both technology and operations
• Collaborate effectively with diverse internal teams to help drive security maturity
• Contribute positively to the culture of information security across the org

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES-

• Other duties as assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES-

• Yes