API Security Consultant
IBM
Date: 3 weeks ago
City: Taguig
Contract type: Full time
Introduction
We're looking for an experienced API Security Consultant to lead and manage the operations of an enterprise-grade API Security Platform. This role will focus on maintaining API security posture, leading investigations, defining security rules and controls, and ensuring seamless integration with client infrastructure.
Your Role And Responsibilities
Bachelor's Degree
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
Qualifications and Skills
Experience
Preferred technical and professional experience
We're looking for an experienced API Security Consultant to lead and manage the operations of an enterprise-grade API Security Platform. This role will focus on maintaining API security posture, leading investigations, defining security rules and controls, and ensuring seamless integration with client infrastructure.
Your Role And Responsibilities
- Oversee daily administration, configuration, and tuning of the API Security Platform.
- Oversee the creation of detailed system architecture and design documents for the API Security platform.
- Enhance and refine API Security rules, policies, and alerts based on threat intelligence and platform findings.
- Manage platform health checks, uptime monitoring, and integration validations.
- Supervise the integration of the API Security platform with existing systems like F5 LTM and API Gateway.
- Guide the team in setting up effective alerts and notification systems for API security incidents and events.
- Coordinate with SOC, DevOps, and Infra teams for alert triage, issue resolution, and response.
- Direct the creation of comprehensive test plans for system and user acceptance testing.
- Lead the process of managing and maintaining remote collectors and other on-site components of the API Security platform.
Bachelor's Degree
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
Qualifications and Skills
Experience
- 5+ years in cybersecurity or DevSecOps, with strong exposure to API security.
- Experience with Cequence API Security is highly preferred. Familiarity with similar API security platforms (e.g., Salt Security, or equivalent) will also be considered a strong advantage.
- Strong knowledge of API architectures (REST, SOAP, GraphQL), OAuth2/OIDC, F5, API Gateways, and SIEM integration.
- Familiarity with detecting shadow APIs, PII-sensitive endpoints, and anomalous behavior.
- Deep understanding of platform integrations, custom rule writing, and correlation logic.
- Experience working with or supporting SOC teams is a plus.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with keen attention to detail.
Preferred technical and professional experience
- API Security Certified Specialist,
- CISSP, CCSP, or GWEB
- AWS/GCP/Azure security certifications
- GIAC Cloud Security Automation (GCSA) or equivalent
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