Associate Application Security Engineer

Veeva Systems, Inc.; London; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in life sciences is seeking an Application Security Engineer to enhance application security across its teams. This role involves active engagement with product development, platform tuning, and the integration of security protocols. Applicants should have a strong background in coding and familiarity with industry security standards. Ideal for individuals eager to make a positive impact in a rapidly growing sector, the position offers the flexibility to work remotely or from the office.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of experience as a security engineer or application developer.
• Knowledge in security engineering, infrastructure, and network security.
• Experience with interpreted or compiled languages: Python, Java, React.

Responsibilities

• Support Checkmarx SAST & SCA platform.
• Automate security tools in DevSecOps processes.
• Create and maintain integrated security dashboards.

Skills

Coding skills in Java

Coding skills in Python

Understanding of OWASP Top 10

Utilization of Static Application Security Testing tools

Experience with cloud service providers

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Bachelor of Science in Cyber Security

Job description

Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $2B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead.

At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We're not just any public company – we made history in 2021 by becoming apublic benefit corporation(PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.

As aWork Anywherecompany, we support your flexibility to work from home or in the office, so you can thrive in your ideal environment.

Join us intransforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.

The Role

Veeva’s Security Engineering team is seeking an aspiring Application Security Engineer that wants to work with Veeva’s product teams to secure their applications. This role has a broad scope, ranging from assisting with managing our SAST/SCA environment to developing Dev Sec Ops automation services, and system integrations using APIs, Webhooks, or other custom integrations of Veeva’s infrastructure. Development of automated processes of security tools, coloration of data through analytics, and design of integrated dashboard tools across our multiple platforms. You will be working as a security expert supporting our product development teams on code quality issues and findings.

What You'll Do

• Support Checkmarx SAST & SCA platform, tuning and supporting product development
• Assist application product teams with scan automation via pipeline build such as Jenkins or CI/CD
• Automation of security tools into the DevSecOps processes
• Create best practices, system troubleshooting, or process documentation
• Write code supporting data lake and data warehouse collection and data transformation processes
• Maintain security infrastructure, tools, and systems
• Integration of security tools through APIs, webhook, or other custom integration
• Conduct full life cycle engagements with business units independently or as part of a team
• Create and maintain integrated security dashboards pulling multiple security systems into a unified global view

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field, or equivalent work experience
• Coding skills in at least one primary language, such as Java or Python and React
• Understanding of OWASP Top 10, SANS Top 20, NIST 800-53, CIS, CSC, or other security standards
• Utilize Static Application Security Testing tools (i.e. Checkmarx) to identify and remediate code vulnerabilities
• 1+ years as a security engineer or application developer
• Knowledge and understanding in various disciplines such as security engineering, infrastructure and network security, authentication and security
• Knowledge of protocols, cryptography, or application security
• Experience with interpreted or compiled languages: Python, Java, React, Ruby, Perl, PHP, C/C++, C#
• Experience with cloud service providers and their offerings, preferably AWS and its various technologies and APIs, Azure, and Alibaba Cloud

Nice to Have

• Bachelor of Science in Cyber Security, Information Security, MIS, or equivalent
• Experience in Web and Mobile (Android/iOS) based application/service assessment
• Knowledge of fuzzing, memory corruption, and exploit development
• Familiar with Jenkins, Bamboo, CI/CD Pipelines, and other automation tools
• Experience with Big Data technologies such as Elastic, Cloudera, Hadoop, Datadog, or others
• Experience maintaining security tools and automation scripts to streamline security processes

#RemoteUK

Veeva’s headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries around the world.

As an equal opportunity employer, Veeva is committed to fostering a culture of inclusion and growing a diverse workforce. Diversity makes us stronger. It comes in many forms. Gender, race, ethnicity, religion, politics, sexual orientation, age, disability and life experience shape us all into unique individuals. We value people for the individuals they are and the contributions they can bring to our teams.

If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need when applying for a role or in our recruitment process, please contact us [e-mail].