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Senior Staff Security Engineer - Infrastructure + Product Security, Disney+ Hotstar

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Job ID 3920950d-7795-4168-abc7-cbe143f5429c Location Mumbai, India / Gurgaon, India Business Disney+ Hotstar Date posted Dec. 14, 2023

Job Summary:

Job Summary
As an Senior Staff Security Engineer you will lead, mentor, and develop engineers who are part of our Security team

About the team

The Security team helps secure Infrastructure that run the Hotstar business, streaming product, live broadcast and social gaming. As devsecops engineer you would be developing software tools that work reliably at scale and extending our operational excellence around securely operating a large cloud infrastructure.

We need passionate hacker who derives purpose in life by finding potential weaknesses and then crafting creative solutions to eliminate those weaknesses. 

The pace of our growth is incredible – if you want to tackle hard and interesting problems at scale, and create an impact within an entrepreneurial environment, join us!

Reporting to - Senior Principal Manager - Engineering (Cyber Security)

Key Responsibilities

  • Championing security: Educate and train people at all levels of the business to advocate for a security-conscious culture
  • An advocate for a policy as a code, security, and automation
  • Growing our security tech stack: Maintain our existing tooling and stay on top of emerging technologies that could improve our security posture and drive their evaluation, rollout and adoption
  • Promoting security by design: Work closely with the engineering teams to embed security considerations, including vulnerability management, in the design, development, and maintenance of products and features
  • Manage internal efforts to successfully end security incidents 
  • Build and design toolings to automate security operations without compromising our posture 
  • Define and refine measurements of security risk
  • Advocate and support engineering teams in developing secure platform toolings and services 
  • Mentoring team members to uplevel technical and interpersonal security skills
  • You will exert technical influence over Infosec team members, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience

Skills & Attributes for success

  • Extensive knowledge of security risks and mitigations through process and technology, especially for cloud-based applications and infrastructure
  • Experienced with securing AWS infrastructure managed and provisioned using IaC
  • Architect, design, develop and operationalize high-performance, scalable, reliable, and resilient services
  • You have experience working with and securing containers and Kubernetes
  • You have a robust knowledge of security engineering and application security
  • Strong understanding of web or mobile application security
  • Penetration Testing, threat modeling, and architecture review experience
  • Strong communication skills to translate security requirements into business objectives and to effectively convey security considerations to both technical and non-technical audiences
  •  Confidence to engage with peers, both internally and at prospects/customers, to understand their information security concerns
  • You have experience working with a fully distributed, remote team
  • Excellent problem-solving abilities
  • Sound business judgment, proven ability to influence others and strong analytical thinking skills
  • Entrepreneurial spirit and willingness to have fun!

Preferred Education & Experience

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field with a minimum 8+ years of experience in securing large scalable systems
About Us

Disney+ Hotstar is India’s leading streaming platform that has changed the way Indians watch their entertainment - from their favorite TV shows and movies to sporting extravaganzas. With the widest range of content in India, Disney+ Hotstar offers more than 100,000 hours of TV Shows and Movies in 18 languages and coverage of major global sporting events.

As a mission-driven organization with a relentless focus on our users, we are dedicated to attracting and retaining world-class talent to drive our success.

About Disney+ Hotstar:

Hotstar is one of the fastest growing video-on-demand services. Scratch that. We’re Hotstar. The go-to destination for over 100mn active users who seek anything from award-winning English shows and movies to regional content to live sports. Our mission is to revolutionize internet entertainment through smart personalization, and by building a global video platform - talk about taking over the world wide web and the whole wide world. We believe there are only two ways to realize our goals – by daring or daring more.

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.

This position is with Novi Digital Entertainment Pvt Ltd, which is part of a business we call Disney+ Hotstar.

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