Position: Application Security Engineer
Company: PSR Company
Category: Security
Experience required: 2y
Published: 2021-12-01T00:00:00+02:00

In this role, the specialist will collaborate closely with all our internal and our customer’s development teams to ensure adherence to security policies, processes and standards, provide information security recommendations and guidance in order to identify, manage, and mitigate security risks.

Areas of Responsibility:

Perform system & application security requirements review, definition and clarification
Conduct security audits for corporate systems, perform application security testing
Participate in threat modelling and application risk assessment
Work closely with development teams to support integration of the best security practices into their development processes
Participate in enhancement of SAST/DAST/IAST integration into application CI/CD pipeline
Contribute to corporate SDLC enhancement, design and implement security controls and best practices
Investigate and pilot commercial and open-source application security tools
Participate in developing corporate regulations, technical reports, and presentations related to application security

Qualifications

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent experience
3+ years of experience in secure development, technical security audit or security consulting areas
Solid understanding of fundamental building blocks of application security such as: authentication, authorization, data validation, encryption, security assurance
Good understanding of software architectures and technologies (including web application architectures, operating systems architectures, cloud architectures, TCP/IP Stack, software development processes)
Detailed familiarity with application security concepts/standards/laws/best-practices (e.g. OWASP, CIS, NIST SP 800, ISO 27K series)
Experience in security testing, application threat modelling and systems/applications security risk assessment
A burning desire to grow in both engineering and security expertise

Will be an advantage

Practical experience in using popular commercial and open-source security testing tools (e.g. Acunetix, Nessus/Tennable.io, Burp, ZAP, Kali Linux)
Practical experience in Microsoft Cloud Security
Good understanding of at least two of following programming languages (i.e. ability to figure out what’s going on by looking at code snippets): C#, C++, Java, Python, JS
Practical experience in application development, secure coding and scripting languages for automation
Practical experience in hardening systems

Personal Skills

Well-developed analytical and problem-solving skills
Strong ability to conduct research
Ability to work independently
Ability to manage multiple tasks according to priorities
Being a result-oriented person
Having good communication skills (writing and speaking), including giving presentations
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