Secure Code Champion: Lead App Security & DevSecOps

XPT Software Australia Pty Ltd; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

XPT Software Australia Pty Ltd in Sydney invites an experienced Senior Application Security Engineer to lead the secure code scanning rollout across the software development lifecycle. You will drive adoption of Snyk, Fortify, Checkmarx, or Veracode with integration into existing CI/CD pipelines.

You will partner with development, DevOps and security teams to define scanning strategies, triage vulnerabilities, and establish governance for long-term platform adoption.

Qualifications

• Experience implementing Secure Code Scanning in large enterprise environments.
• Strong knowledge of SAST, SDLC and DevSecOps practices.
• Ability to design and implement secure coding standards and workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation and onboarding of Secure Code Scanning platforms such as Snyk, Fortify, Checkmarx, or Veracode across the software development lifecycle.
• Design and implement integrations with GitHub, GitLab and CI/CD pipelines to enable automated security scanning and policy enforcement.
• Collaborate with development, DevOps, and security teams to define scanning strategies, remediation workflows, quality gates, and secure coding controls.
• Proactively identify implementation challenges, integration dependencies, developer adoption issues, and performance impacts, and provide practical solutions to mitigate risks.
• Establish vulnerability management processes, including triage, risk prioritization, exception handling, SLA definition, and remediation tracking.
• Develop technical standards, deployment procedures, operational runbooks, and governance processes to support long-term platform adoption.
• Provide hands-on support during implementation, testing, rollout, and post-go-live stabilization activities while mentoring development teams on secure coding practices.

Skills

Secure coding

SAST

Vulnerability management

DevSecOps

Secure Code Scanning

Snyk

Fortify

Checkmarx

Veracode

GitHub

GitLab

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

Snyk

Fortify

Checkmarx

Veracode

GitHub

GitLab

CI/CD tooling

Job description

XPT Software Australia Pty Ltd in Sydney invites an experienced Senior Application Security Engineer to lead the secure code scanning rollout across the software development lifecycle. You will drive adoption of Snyk, Fortify, Checkmarx, or Veracode with integration into existing CI/CD pipelines.

You will partner with development, DevOps and security teams to define scanning strategies, triage vulnerabilities, and establish governance for long-term platform adoption.