Security Engineer helps develop, mature, and sustain the Application Security program for the organization. This role focuses on protecting web, mobile, database, API, and container applications. The engineer collaborates with development teams to strengthen the organization's security posture.
Key Responsibilities:
Perform as an application security SME across web, mobile, database, API, container, and other domains.
Support and maintain application security testing platforms and develop integrations with automation tools.
Work with application development teams to review false-positive scan results and evaluate proposed mitigations.
Produce and track application security metrics.
Support the secure development and testing of critical advisor and investor applications.
Mentor and educate product development and quality engineers on secure development and security best practices.
Monitor and review CVEs, industry developments, and provide inputs for continuous improvement.
Collaborate with internal audit, IT governance, compliance, and other stakeholders on specific projects.
Qualifications:
5+ years of application security experience.
5+ years of experience performing manual testing of APIs and web applications to identify and validate vulnerabilities.
5+ years of experience developing and maintaining enterprise security libraries, components, and best-practice checklists.
5+ years of experience performing application security risk evaluation, partnering with stakeholders to enhance the CI/CD pipeline and assess security posture.
5+ years of experience creating and maintaining scan profiles for static, authenticated dynamic, IAST, and third-party library automated analysis with scanning tools.
5+ years of experience reviewing and analyzing vulnerability scan results and tracking closure of vulnerabilities.
Understanding of OWASP Top 10 critical web application security risks, their identification, and architecture, design, coding patterns to mitigate them.
Knowledge of secure coding best practices, secure SDLC, secure architecture, and DevSecOps methodologies.
Strong analytical, interpersonal, and communication skills.
Preferred Skills:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent in information security, engineering, or computer science.
Application development and security engineering or security architecture experience.
Experience using application security code scanning tools such as Synopsys, BlackDuck, J-Frog, PrismaCloud, API scanners, and manual tools such as BurpSuite and Postman.
Experience working with the security of applications developed in C#, Java, and web (HTML, CSS, JS, React, Angular, REST) technologies.
Experience working with DevSecOps and CI/CD pipelines.