What are the responsibilities and job description for the SECURITY ENGINEER OR SECURITY ARCHITECT position at Visionsoft International?
Title: Security Engineer
Organization: Information Technology
PRIMARY LOCATION: New York, NY
Roles: 2
DESCRIPTION
As a member of the Information Security team, the Security Engineer will be responsible for helping to develop, mature, and sustain the Application Security program for the company. We have incorporated key industry security best practices, technologies and integrated processes to further strengthen our defense posture. This is an exciting time to join the Information Security Vulnerability Management team as we are continuing to expand the Application Security program.
Responsibilities:
- Perform as an application security SME in the following areas: Web Applications, Mobile Applications, Databases, APIs, Containers and other domains.
- Support and maintain application security testing platforms and develop integrations with automation platforms
- Work with Application Development teams to review potential false-positive scan results and evaluate proposed mitigating factors
- Produce and track application security metrics
- 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
- Work with Internal Audit, IT Governance, IT Compliance and other key stakeholder groups on specific projects
Requirements:
- 10 years of application security experience
- 10 years of experience performing manual testing of APIs and web applications to identify/validate vulnerabilities.
- 5 years of experience developing and maintaining enterprise security libraries, components, best practices checklists.
- 5 years of experience performing application security risk evaluation, partnering with key stakeholders to further enhance application security CI/CD pipeline and continually assess security posture for improvement.
- 5 years of experience creating and maintaining scan profiles for performing static, authenticated dynamic, IAST, and 3rd party library automated analysis with application scanning tools
- 5 years of experience with reviewing and analyzing vulnerability scan results and tracking closure of vulnerabilities
Core Competencies:
- 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
Preferences:
- 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 as well as manual tools such as Burpsuite and Postman
- Experience working with security of applications developed in C#, Java, and web (HTML, CSS, JS, React, Angular, REST) technologies
- Experience working with DevSecOps and CI/CD pipelines