Application Security Engineer II

Phenom; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Phenom ITX Platform seeks a security engineer to research, triage and remediate vulnerabilities across the platform and its infrastructure. You will collaborate with engineering teams to strengthen security controls and adopt shift-left practices.

You will deploy and optimize SAST/DAST/SCA tools, perform threat modeling, and deliver clear vulnerability reports to all audiences while driving continuous security improvements and training across teams.

Qualifications

• Research, identify and analyze vulnerabilities affecting Phenom ITX Platform and its supporting infrastructure.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve software assurance and shift-left security practices.
• Deploy fixes and remediation in collaboration with engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, improve and utilize security tools (SAST/DAST/SCA) to identify vulnerabilities.
• Report progress on vulnerability status and ensure closure per Phenom standards.
• Deliver vulnerability assessment reports to stakeholders at all levels.
• Support threat modeling, risk assessment, and security requirements definition.

Skills

Vulnerability assessment

Threat modeling

SAST/DAST

Cloud security

CI/CD security

Automation

Technical writing

Threat intelligence

Incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent

Security Certification (e.g., CISSP, CISM)

Tools

AWS security controls

SAST tools

DAST tools

SCA

OWASP

Job description

Job Requirements

• Research, identify and analyze and triage vulnerabilities that could affect Phenom ITX Platform and its supporting infrastructure, and determine its severity, exploitability and corrective action recommendations, summarizing and reporting results.
• Collaborate with engineering/development teams to evolve software assurance processes to address security risks, and help teams learn and adopt shift-security-to-left practices.
• Work on implementing the required fixes to remediate the vulnerabilities in collaboration with the engineering team
• Deploy, improve and utilize SAST/DAST/SCA and other cybersecurity solutions to identify and communicate security vulnerabilities to Phenom production teams
• Maintain and report progress on the state of application vulnerabilities and elevate as necessary to ensure vulnerability issues are closed and handled in a manner consistent with Phenom standards
• Work closely with the business, support and production teams to provide input and guidance on development of planned remediation plans and strategies to solve identified vulnerabilities
• Use technical writing and effective communications to prepare and deliver vulnerability assessment result reports to all levels of audiences (peers and or leadership).
• Drive compliance support and improvements over time through the management, analysis and tracking of vulnerabilities discovered through audits, products or collaborations.
• Perform research and analytics and stay apprised on new security vulnerability, threats, risks, attack tools and techniques to contribute and improve Phenom’s Threat model and collaborate with senior engineering and product management staff to incorporate effective security standards and controls into product design.
• Help in the deployment of Phenom Secure Architecture & Software Development program to support the best cybersecurity development practice, and ensure Phenom ITX Platform is highly secure, resilient and aligned with business and product development strategy.
• Continuously review and identify security improvement opportunities in existing processes, services, and workflows to ensure Phenom ITX platform is robust against current and future cybersecurity threats.
• Support cybersecurity process activities including security requirements definition, threat modelling, code reviews and cyber risk assessment.
• Support on development and maintenance of a “security by default” standard to be used in the development, infrastructure, or any other technology project.
• Deliver training on Security Development Lifecycle to engineering/development teams
• Contribute to the review of internal processes and activities and assist in identifying potential opportunities for improvement and automation.
• Drive continuous improvement activities to define, measure, visualize and improve key cyber security metrics related to Application Security.
• Provide analytic support to answer questions about vulnerabilities, and general threat intelligence trends

What You’ll Do

• Research, identify and analyze and triage vulnerabilities that could affect Phenom ITX Platform and its supporting infrastructure, and determine its severity, exploitability and corrective action recommendations, summarizing and reporting results.
• Collaborate with engineering/development teams to evolve software assurance processes to address security risks, and help teams learn and adopt shift-security-to-left practices.
• Work on implementing the required fixes to remediate the vulnerabilities in collaboration with the engineering team
• Deploy, improve and utilize SAST/DAST/SCA and other cybersecurity solutions to identify and communicate security vulnerabilities to Phenom production teams
• Maintain and report progress on the state of application vulnerabilities and elevate as necessary to ensure vulnerability issues are closed and handled in a manner consistent with Phenom standards
• Work closely with the business, support and production teams to provide input and guidance on development of planned remediation plans and strategies to solve identified vulnerabilities
• Use technical writing and effective communications to prepare and deliver vulnerability assessment result reports to all levels of audiences (peers and or leadership).
• Drive compliance support and improvements over time through the management, analysis and tracking of vulnerabilities discovered through audits, products or collaborations.
• Perform research and analytics and stay apprised on new security vulnerability, threats, risks, attack tools and techniques to contribute and improve Phenom’s Threat model and collaborate with senior engineering and product management staff to incorporate effective security standards and controls into product design.
• Help in the deployment of Phenom Secure Architecture & Software Development program to support the best cybersecurity development practice, and ensure Phenom ITX Platform is highly secure, resilient and aligned with business and product development strategy.
• Continuously review and identify security improvement opportunities in existing processes, services, and workflows to ensure Phenom ITX platform is robust against current and future cybersecurity threats.
• Support cybersecurity process activities including security requirements definition, threat modelling, code reviews and cyber risk assessment.
• Support on development and maintenance of a “security by default” standard to be used in the development, infrastructure, or any other technology project.
• Deliver training on Security Development Lifecycle to engineering/development teams
• Contribute to the review of internal processes and activities and assist in identifying potential opportunities for improvement and automation.
• Drive continuous improvement activities to define, measure, visualize and improve key cyber security metrics related to Application Security.
• Provide analytic support to answer questions about vulnerabilities, and general threat intelligence trends

Work Experience

• Experience with Amazon Web Services cloud environments and its security controls and their corresponding challenges.
• Experience with microservices architectures & distributed Platforms especially in the SaaS businesses
• Experience with Agile software development
• Coding Experience in Scripting & programming languages (such as Terraform, Java, Python, Ruby, etc.)
• Knowledge of information security principles (Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability Authentication & Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Data Security or Cryptography), and understanding of common exploitation techniques and mitigation.
• Experience implementing, managing, and supporting a vulnerability management program (process and technology).
• Experience and well-known understanding of Dynamic and Static Application Security Testing (DAST & SAST) and infrastructure automation/development utilizing APIs.
• Understanding of the main cybersecurity tools (SIEM, IPS, XDR, etc.) and how they help to protect an application.
• Experience working with Threat modeling (e.g., STRIDE, PASTA, FAIR, Security Cards) and vulnerability frameworks standards (e.g., OWASP, CVSS, CWE) with a good understanding of the Cyber Kill Chain and pervasive threat attack methods and remediation.
• Thought leadership, critical thinking, strong organizational skills, report writing skills to senior level, ability to prioritize and multitask