Description

Key Responsibilities:

Conduct Static Application Security Test (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Test (DAST) and Source Code Analysis (SCA) using VeraCode
Correlate findings from tools such as VeraCode Source Code Agent to identify presence of vulnerable methods in code
Research open-source community contributors and NIST NVD to understand residual risk and recommend course of action
Determine how frequently and quickly fixes should be delivered for open-source findings
Review SCA reports to track new and changes to SCA components in the environment
Experience working with tools such as Sonatype nexus firewall and lifecycle to track and block risk 3rd- party components
Work within the DevSecOps model to secure Containers, withing ROSA, Tekton and OpenShift pipelines
Design, develop, plan, implement, and maintain Cloud DevSecOps processes across multiple technical organizations, instantiating security testing for internally developed systems, applications, and infrastructure against business requirements. 
Guide development teams in integrating new services and applications into the CI/CD pipeline, troubleshoot installations and build automated deployments of products into a high-security architecture. 
Possess a knowledge of CI/CD orchestration tools such as Jenkins, Tekton, GitLab, or Bamboo. 
Provide operational support for container security tools (Palo Alto Prisma, Aqua, Wiz or equivalent)
Perform Baseline Image validation of new container template images. 
Evaluate scans results for container runtime environments to reduce security risk
Troubleshoot any connectivity or operational issues for clusters being evaluated in the Prisma tool. 
Apply software development skills (e.g., Java, C#.NET, JavaScript) to recommend and apply secure coding practices
Validate and address vulnerability / threat findings from static and dynamic analysis tools
Characterizes threats and provides recommendations for remediation; manages remediation efforts to completion
Develops and presents finding and remediation reports to audiences including team members from all department areas and levels of the company
Perform security reviews of software designs and assist developers to ensure quality and robustness of our internal products
Conduct security assessments against web applications and APIs across a variety of technology stacks
Ensure adequate security requirements and privacy by design are built into all architecture/infrastructure/projects
Integrating threat modeling practices into the application testing lifecycle
Impart application security and ethical hacking subject matter expertise into team processes
Drive improvements in the security testing practice to include execution methodology and metrics
Drive awareness and knowledge of security in the developer community
Continually improve proficiency in application and API exploitation, tools, techniques, and countermeasures

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

B.S. degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Assurance or related field
Minimum 5+ years of professional experience in application security, penetration testing, security assessment, secure software development or related field
Hands-on experience working with Cloud and/or DevSecOps related technologies
Excellent understanding of DevSecOps techniques and processes, guide integration of various tools in DevSecOps processes (GitLab/GitHub, SonarQube, Jenkins, Selenium, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, and containerization). 
Should be well versed with the AWS well architected framework or TOGAF and able to apply those principles while designing a solution
Experience building and supporting applications in the Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Experience engineering software within an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure
Troubleshoot and resolve problems with existing cloud controls
Extensive knowledge of the OWASP Top 10
Experience with vulnerability risk and impact assessment
Experience integrating security capabilities in cloud and application lifecycle management platforms especially in a DevOps model
Extensive knowledge with static analysis tools and flaw triage such as Client Fortify, IBM Rational, Veracode or Coverity, FindBugs, FindSecurityBugs, Brakeman and Open Source scanning tools such as Sonatype CLM
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Strong sense of urgency and ownership
Extensive experience in application security and ethical hacking
Extensive experience exploiting web, mobile and application security vulnerabilities
Extensive experience in software development
Extensive experience integrating secure coding techniques with product teams
Professional certifications such AWS practitioner, cloud security certification for AWS, and CISSP
 

Education

B.S. degree in Computer Science