Application Security Engineer

Job Responsibilities

• Perform security assessments and manual penetration testing using tools such as Burp Suite and other proxy tools.
• Triage static (SAST), dynamic (DAST), interactive (IAST) analysis results to identify, prioritize and remediate security vulnerabilities.
• Integrate security practices into C/CD pipeline to support DevSecOps initiative.
• Maintain documentation of security findings, remediation plans, and compliance requirements.
• Develop and interpret security policies and procedures.
• Participate in security compliance efforts.
• Develop and deliver training materials and perform general security awareness and specific security technology training.
• Evaluate and recommend new and emerging security products and technologies.
• Leverage GenAI technologies to scale application security reviews and automate code analysis.
• Evaluate various application security tools/capabilities i.e., SAST, DAST, IaC, Secrets detection tools.
• Stay current with emerging security threats and countermeasures.
• Ability to train or explain the common security issues to raise the security awareness among developers and assurance engineers.
• Perform AWS configuration reviews.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required.
• 5+ years of experience required in Cyber security and application security.
• Familiarity with SAST, DAST, IAST tools.
• Understanding of AWS is required.
• Deep understanding of OWASP top issues and remediation guidelines.
• Proficiency in one or more programming language (Java, Python, JavaScript is preferred).
• Understanding of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and GITLAB.
• Familiarity with GenAI tools is a plus.
• Strong experience and detailed technical knowledge in security engineering, system and network security, authentication and security protocols, cryptography, and application security.
• Candidates with software development is a plus.
• Consistent implementation of security solutions.
• Experience in infrastructure or application-level vulnerability testing and auditing.

Skills

• application security
• owasp
• information security
• penetration test