As a Web Application Security Engineer , you will provide technical expertise and solutions to remediate persistent and challenging portfolio-wide vulnerabilities. We're looking for someone who has passion for IT, resourceful problem-solving abilities, and a desire to learn our indicators of success in this role. The ideal candidate will have a breadth of experience over a variety of application and web based technologies. The candidate will not necessarily have deep experience in all domain areas but should have a good understanding of how the various layers of an enterprise application stack interact with one another. You will work directly with system admin teams to assist and remediate vulnerabilities and harden environments, while providing recommendations on ways to enhance vulnerability management. Additionally, you will work in a team environment to develop proactive solutions to improve overall enterprise security posture through process streamlining and automation.
Responsibilities include :
- Provide subject matter expertise for various risk assessments, working in an Agile environment with an understanding of the full software development lifecycle.
- Advocate for and ensure appropriate security practices are communicated and implemented within application development portfolios.
- Ability and proven experience in securing multiple areas of an enterprise application stack, including the OS, Database, Application Server, Load Balancer, and Web Server layers. Understanding how PKI / TLS certificates work is a must.
- Integrate with both the application development and security assurance divisions to ensure vulnerability findings are understood, remediated or baselined as appropriate.
- Document & Socialize security findings and remediation solutions in an enterprise knowledge base.
- Support the Information Assurance Branch and the SOC with scan analysis and partner with development teams to understand and remediate security findings.
Required :
Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security ClearanceMaster's Degree and 3 years of relevant experience; ORBachelor's Degree and 5 years of relevant experience; OR
No degree and 9 years of relevant experiencePossesses at least one professional certification relevant to the technical service provided. Maintain a certification relevant to the product being deployed and / or maintained.Preferred :
Former Developer or Systems Administrator experienceWorking knowledge of technologies used for building and deploying enterprise applications, such as, Maven, Grade, GIT, Jenkins, Ansible, Java, C# / .NET, Apache Tomcat, Apache HTTP Server, IIS, F5, Oracle, MSSQLSEVER, PostGresWorking knowledge and experience in AWS and Azure GovCloudsAbility to analyze DISA STIG audit compliance scan results and provide recommendations for resolutionAnalyze security environment, provide recommendationsWorking knowledge of JIRA, Service Now or equivalentWorking knowledge of operating system and dynamic application security testing scan tools - Invicti, Web Inspect, DAST / IAST suitesExperience using Python to automate tasksCertifications :
CEH, GFACT, GPEN, OSCP or other relevant industry certificationsOther Application based Technology specific certifiations