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Application Security Engineer

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Hybrid Work Model

We are looking for highly motivated, problem solver and critical thinker software engineer to join our team and help us design/develop secure products and promote software/application security throughout our development organization. You should be flexible to work on different high priority projects related to our product security effort. 

Responsibilities

  • Providing new security related architecture and frameworks that supports secuirty in our server products and web applications.
  • Enhancing existing threat modeling tool, undertaking security and threat analysis, of different products, and working closely with the teams to implement countermeasures.
  • Monitoring new attack vectors, new exploits and sharing them with our development teams.
  • Building internal knowledge and provide KPIs about our code and product security. 

Minimum Qualifications

  • A bachelor's degree and 6 years of professional work experience (or a master's degree and 3 years of professional work experience, or a PhD degree, or equivalent experience) is required.

Additional Qualifications

Must Have:

  • 3+ years’ working on Application Security, Vulnerability Assessment, Penetration Testing
  • 1+ years’ working on Threat Modelling and Security architecture reviews
  • 2+ years’ hands on experience with one or more programming languages (such as, Java, C++, Ruby, Python, etc.)

Nice to Have:

  • Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills and demonstrated ability to investigate and solve complex problems
  • Good communication, interpersonal and organizational skills  
  • Ability to get up to speed on new security framework and concepts
  • Experience with application security such as OWASP Top 10
  • Skilled on at least one of these tools: SonarQube, Burp Suite, Black Duck, Fortify, OWASP ZAP, NESSUS, Coverity, Fortify
  • Hands-on experience with static and dynamic analysis security testing software
  • Experience with cloud computing: AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Containers, DevSecOps
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