Senior Security Engineer - Application Security

Job Description


Salary/ Benefits
In order to attract the very best talent on the market a generous remuneration package is on offer of £55,000 - £65,000 dependent on experience plus bonus and a range of benefits.

Client
VANRATH are pleased to be working with a global security company looking for a Senior Security Engineer.

The Ideal Person

  • Knowledge of secure web application architecture patterns and common vulnerabilities (OWASP Top 10)
  • Experience implementing application security tools (SCA, SAST, RASP, WAF, DAST)
  • Experience developing software using Java, JavaScript, Go, and/or Python
  • Experience implementing microservice-based web applications with modern cloud infrastructure services, especially AWS
  • Experience using container and container orchestration technology (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Spinnaker)
  • Excellent time management and prioritization skills with a strong ability to plan, prioritize, and execute projects independently or in coordination with other teams
  • Excellent ability to communicate to technical and non-technical audiences with a positive, collaborative, and enablement-focused attitude
  • Insatiable curiosity and desire to challenge conventional approaches to solving problems




Responsibilities

  • Implement and tune application security tools with developer user experience in mind, such as SCA, SAST, DAST, RASP, WAF
  • Automate and integrate security processes and controls throughout the entire SDLC, from IDEs to source control systems to CI/CD pipelines to production deployments
  • Define hardening and secure design standards and use them to perform application security reviews in partnership with developer teams
  • Mentor team members around security, engineering, and collaboration best practices
  • Build positive relationships with partner teams in IT, DevOps, Software Engineering, and Product Management to continuously improve the application security strategies and priorities for protecting the customers and company
  • Help create metrics to demonstrate the effectiveness of the application security program and inform continuous program improvements
  • Provide feedback and recommendations to product teams on ways to improve the client's products and partner ecosystem
  • Report and communicate security issues and topics to technical and non-technical audiences, ranging from individual contributors to C-suite executives



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