Lead Analyst, Technology Centre (Security Analyst)

AIA Digital+; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

AIA Digital+ is seeking an Application Security Analyst to support SG Tech with vulnerability analysis, validation, and remediation advisory for application security findings. You will review findings from SAST, SCA, and other tooling to determine genuine issues, false positives, or tool inaccuracies, and advise remediation.

You will collaborate with development teams to validate findings, explain risks, and support secure software delivery while staying current on OWASP CWE patterns and secure

Qualifications

• 3 years of experience in Application Security, Information Security, Secure Software Development, or related areas.
• Hands‑on experience with application security testing, vulnerability validation, secure code review, or vulnerability assessment.
• Experience working with SAST, SCA, or similar application security tools.
• Good understanding of OWASP Top 10, OWASP Web Security Testing Guide, CWE, and secure coding principles.
• Ability to analyze security findings and determine whether issues are exploitable, relevant, or false positives.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, triage, and validate application security findings generated by SAST, SCA, and other application security testing tools.
• Differentiate genuine vulnerabilities from false positives, informational findings, duplicate findings, and tool-generated inaccuracies.
• Review application source code to understand vulnerability context and identify potential security weaknesses.
• Assess exploitability, attack surface, attack path, and potential business impact of reported vulnerabilities.
• Provide risk-based remediation guidance to application teams.
• Work with development teams to explain security findings, clarify remediation actions, and support closure of identified issues.
• Document vulnerability analysis, triage decisions, risk ratings, business impact, and remediation recommendations.
• Track application security findings, remediation progress, recurring issues, and key application security metrics.
• Support secure software development practices by providing application security advisory to project and development teams.
• Stay updated on application security threats, common vulnerability patterns, secure coding practices, OWASP guidance, CWE weaknesses, and emerging attack techniques.

Skills

Application Security

Vulnerability Analysis

Secure Coding

Vulnerability Validation

SAST

SCA

OWASP Guidance

CWE weaknesses

Threat Modeling

Communication with Dev Teams

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Information Security

Tools

Veracode

Checkmarx

SonarQube

Snyk

Nexus IQ

GitHub Advanced Security

Job description

Lead Analyst, Technology Centre (Security Analyst)

In AIA Digital+, we serve as AIA’s Group-led Technology, Digital & Analytics hub by evolving innovative technology to shape the future. We aim to design & develop a detailed, human centered experiences to positively impact the lives of millions of people.

Join us as a part of AIA Group today!

What is this role about?

We are seeking an Application Security Analyst under SG Tech to support the organization’s Application Security capability, with primary focus on vulnerability analysis, validation, and remediation advisory for application security findings.

The role will be responsible for reviewing findings generated by application security tools, including Static Application Security Testing (SAST) and Software Composition Analysis (SCA), and determining whether the reported issues are genuine vulnerabilities, false positives, informational findings, or tool-generated inaccuracies. The candidate should have sufficient application security and secure coding knowledge to assess exploitability, business impact, and remediation options.

The successful candidate will work closely with application development teams to validate findings, explain security risks, recommend practical remediation actions, and support secure software delivery.

• Analyze, triage, and validate application security findings generated by SAST, SCA, and other application security testing tools.
• Differentiate genuine vulnerabilities from false positives, informational findings, duplicate findings, and tool-generated inaccuracies.
• Review application source code to understand vulnerability context and identify potential security weaknesses.
• Assess exploitability, attack surface, attack path, and potential business impact of reported vulnerabilities.
• Provide risk-based remediation guidance to application teams.
• Work with development teams to explain security findings, clarify remediation actions, and support closure of identified issues.
• Document vulnerability analysis, triage decisions, risk ratings, business impact, and remediation recommendations.
• Track application security findings, remediation progress, recurring issues, and key application security metrics.
• Support secure software development practices by providing application security advisory to project and development teams.
• Stay updated on application security threats, common vulnerability patterns, secure coding practices, OWASP guidance, CWE weaknesses, and emerging attack techniques.

Requirements

• 3 years of experience in Application Security, Information Security, Secure Software Development, or related areas.
• Hands‑on experience with application security testing, vulnerability validation, secure code review, or vulnerability assessment.
• Experience working with SAST, SCA, or similar application security tools.
• Good understanding of OWASP Top 10, OWASP Web Security Testing Guide, CWE, and secure coding principles.
• Ability to analyze security findings and determine whether issues are exploitable, relevant, or false positives.
• Knowledge of common web application security issues such as injection, broken access control, insecure authentication, insecure deserialization, cryptographic weaknesses, and insecure configuration.
• Good understanding of authentication, authorization, access control, input validation, session management, and encryption concepts.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with application security tools such as Veracode, Checkmarx, SonarQube, Snyk, Nexus IQ, GitHub Advanced Security, or similar solutions.
• Exposure to manual application security testing or penetration testing would be an added advantage, particularly for understanding exploitability, CWE weakness patterns, attack paths, and remediation validation.
• Experience validating application vulnerabilities against industry guidance such as OWASP Web Security Testing Guide, OWASP Top 10, OWASP API Security Top 10, or CWE.
• Familiarity with API security testing and common API security risks.
• Familiarity with secure SDLC, DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and security gates.
• Exposure to software engineering, application development, or secure coding practices.
• Basic understanding of container security, cloud application security, or modern application architecture security concepts would be an advantage.
• Experience supporting application teams in vulnerability remediation, remediation verification, and closure tracking.
• Experience preparing vulnerability analysis documentation, triage notes, risk justification, or remediation recommendations.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Security, Information Technology, or related disciplines.

Preferred Certifications

• CISSP, CSSLP, CASE, GWEB, GSSP-JAVA, Security+, or equivalent certifications