Application Security Engineer

UNAVAILABLE; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Unknown company is seeking a Web Application Security Engineer to remediate vulnerabilities across portfolio-wide applications. You will work with system admin teams to harden environments and provide actionable security improvements, while helping streamline processes and automate security tasks.

Ideal candidates bring broad experience across application stacks, strong knowledge of PKI/TLS, and a track record in secure coding and vulnerability management.

Qualifications

• Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance.
• Master's degree with 3+ years of relevant experience, or Bachelor's with 5+ years, or no degree with 9 years of relevant experience.
• Certification relevant to the technical service provided; maintain current certification.

Responsibilities

• Provide SME for risk assessments in an Agile SDLC environment.
• Advocate security practices across application development portfolios.
• Secure multiple enterprise stack layers: OS, DB, App Server, Load Balancer, Web Server.
• Collaborate with development and security teams to remediate findings.
• Document security findings and remediation in an enterprise knowledge base.
• Support IA and SOC with scan analysis and remediation guidance.

Skills

Security best practices

Threat modeling

Agile / SDLC understanding

Documentation & remediation

Education

Master's Degree in relevant field

Bachelor's Degree plus 5+ years relevant experience

No degree + 9 years relevant experience

Tools

JIRA

ServiceNow

Python

Invicti/WebInspect/DAST/IAST

PKI/TLS concepts

AWS

Azure GovClouds

DISA STIG

Jenkins

Git

Job description

Overview

As a Web Application Security Engineer, you will provide technical expertise and solutions to remediate persistent and challenging portfolio-wide vulnerabilities. We’re looking for someone who has passion for IT, resourceful problem-solving abilities, and a desire to learn our indicators of success in this role. The ideal candidate will have a breadth of experience over a variety of application and web based technologies. The candidate will not necessarily have deep experience in all domain areas but should have a good understanding of how the various layers of an enterprise application stack interact with one another. You will work directly with system admin teams to assist and remediate vulnerabilities and harden environments, while providing recommendations on ways to enhance vulnerability management. Additionally, you will work in a team environment to develop proactive solutions to improve overall enterprise security posture through process streamlining and automation.

Responsibilities

• Provide subject matter expertise for various risk assessments, working in an Agile environment with an understanding of the full software development lifecycle.
• Advocate for and ensure appropriate security practices are communicated and implemented within application development portfolios.
• Ability and proven experience in securing multiple areas of an enterprise application stack, including the OS, Database, Application Server, Load Balancer, and Web Server layers. Understanding how PKI/TLS certificates work is a must.
• Integrate with both the application development and security assurance divisions to ensure vulnerability findings are understood, remediated or baselined as appropriate.
• Document & Socialize security findings and remediation solutions in an enterprise knowledge base.
• Support the Information Assurance Branch and the SOC with scan analysis and partner with development teams to understand and remediate security findings.

Qualifications

• Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance
• Master's Degree and 3 years of relevant experience; OR
  • Bachelor's Degree and 5 years of relevant experience; OR
  • No degree and 9 years of relevant experience
• Possesses at least one professional certification relevant to the technical service provided. Maintain a certification relevant to the product being deployed and/or maintained.

Preferred:

• Former Developer or Systems Administrator experience
• Working knowledge of technologies used for building and deploying enterprise applications, such as, Maven, Grade, GIT, Jenkins, Ansible, Java, C#/.NET, Apache Tomcat, Apache HTTP Server, IIS, F5, Oracle, MSSQLSEVER, PostGres
• Working knowledge and experience in AWS and Azure GovClouds
• Ability to analyze DISA STIG audit compliance scan results and provide recommendations for resolution
• Analyze security environment, provide recommendations
• Working knowledge of JIRA, Service Now or equivalent
• Working knowledge of operating system and dynamic application security testing scan tools – Invicti, Web Inspect, DAST/IAST suites
• Experience using Python to automate tasks

Certifications:

• CEH, GFACT, GPEN, OSCP or other relevant industry certifications
• Other Application based Technology specific certifiations