Job Description
Job Description Overview:
- The position is a great opportunity for an entry level Application Security Engineer or people who want to jump into Application Security Career path.
- You will provide hands-on validation of static code analysis results and software composition analysis results, then communicate with developers to fix with guidance.
- You will work with another application security engineer and be a part of the security team for the assigned business domain.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work with engineers to address security risks and provide mitigation recommendations within the Secure Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
- Analyze output of application security scanners, such as SAST and SCA, to proactively Client risks and identify security vulnerabilities
- Validate and investigate applicability of identified vulnerabilities and provide risk analysis as needed
- Configure and fine-tune security scanners to ensure scanner output is applicable to the application's context
- Collaborate with developers and report vulnerabilities to application owners, supervising issues from report to resolution
- Engage with other application security engineers to align tasks with development timelines, completing tasks according to application release timing
Qualifications:
- 2 years of experience working within software development
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Cyber Security or equivalent experience (> 7 years)
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, as well as social skills including the ability to articulate to both technical and non-technical audiences
- High level of personal integrity, with the ability to professionally handle confidential matters, and reflect appropriate level of judgment as it pertains to security
- Able to work both independently and with development teams, and multi-task effectively
- Firm understanding of enterprise class application architectures that are highly scalable and reliable, and the expertise to secure them
- Experience with security architecture and feature design reviews
- Experience with multiple languages such as Java, Go, Python and Perl etc, and understand how to detect and remedy related security issues such as OWASP top 10
Desired Experience:
- Excellent analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities
- Experience with securing host, database, and application solutions for multi-tier systems
- Experience with penetration testing
- Knowledge of automated attack tools and developing mitigation techniques
- Ability to think like an attacker
- Experience with AWS and Akamai technologies
- Technical certifications within information security are a plus (GWAPT, OSCP or equivalents)