Lead AppSec Engineer

About the role

The Lead Security Engineer will support Gartner’s AppSec function. Key responsibilities include:

• Executing daily vulnerability assessments
• Working with Information Security partners and technology stakeholders to identify risks and vulnerabilities
• Collaborating on remediation efforts and prioritizing risk remediation
• Implementing and managing security tools and technologies
• Engineering automation solutions and integrations
• Providing education and training on security practices
• Creating reports on security posture
• Defining and implementing metrics for security control effectiveness
• Serving as a subject matter expert and first point of contact for security issues
• Evaluating business and technical requirements to implement security tools and processes

Requirements

Qualifications include:

• 6-8 years of experience in a Security Engineering role
• Proven experience in DevSecOps, Cloud Security, and Application Security
• Experience with vulnerability scanning technologies, AST platforms, and cloud security tooling
• Formal experience with threat modeling
• Experience leading projects and resources through direct and indirect leadership
• Deep knowledge of assessing and prioritizing risk
• Cloud experience (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Policy as Code (PaC) concepts

Skills

Desired skills include:

• Familiarity with technical security controls, guidelines, and frameworks such as SOC2, ISO 27001/27013, NIST 800-53
• Scripting or programming experience (Java, .NET, HTML, Ruby, PHP, Perl, C#, Python, JavaScript, PowerShell, Bash)
• Experience with penetration testing and web application assessment

Benefits

At Gartner, you will receive:

• Competitive compensation
• Limitedless growth and learning opportunities
• Ongoing mentorship and apprenticeship
• Leadership courses, development programs, technical courses, certification opportunities
• A collaborative and positive culture
• A chance to make an impact
• Flexible working arrangements
• 20+ PTO days plus holidays and floating holidays in your first year
• Extensive medical, dental insurance and vision plans
• 401K with corporate match, immediate vesting
• Health-and-wellness-related allowance programs
• Parental leave
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Employee Assistance Program
• Gartner Gives Charity Match
• And much more!

Pay

Base salary range: $116,000 - $170,000

Schedule

Hybrid work environment with the option to work remotely.