Application Security Tooling Engineer: Automate & Protect

Cybersecurity Jobs; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 104,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

American Express is seeking a Cyber Security Engineer focused on Application Security Tooling in Phoenix, AZ. The role strengthens application security, supports secure engineering at scale, and brings together cybersecurity engineering, application security, automation, and secure SDLC practices.

Responsibilities include strengthening security across the application lifecycle, identifying risks, partnering with engineering teams, and driving security tooling and automation in modern

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity or equivalent experience.
• Advanced degree preferred for senior roles.
• Security certifications (CSSLP, GWEB, GCIH, CEH, GSEC, C|ASE, CCNA) are a plus.
• Developer certifications (OCP, OCA, OCM, CKAD, ACE, CCSP, Profession Cloud Developer) are beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Strengthen application security and help engineering teams build and operate secure technology at scale.
• Identify and reduce security risk throughout the application lifecycle.
• Partner with software engineers, architects, product teams, and cybersecurity partners to reduce risk.
• Contribute to development and operation of security capabilities.
• Integrate security testing and controls into engineering workflows.
• Analyze vulnerabilities and emerging threats.
• Provide guidance for remediation of security issues.
• Work across modern architectures, APIs, cloud and container environments, CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Application security

Security testing

Automation

CI/CD

Cloud security

AI/ML security

Agile/Scrum/Kanban

Python

Java

NoSQL/Relational databases

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity

Advanced degree preferred

CSSLP, GWEB, GCIH, CEH, GSEC, C|ASE, CCNA

OCP, OCA, OCM, CKAD, ACE, CCSP, Profession Cloud Developer

Tools

Python

Bash

PowerShell

Kafka

Django

React JS

Node JS

Go-lang

Kubernetes

Docker

Jenkins

Cloud CI/CD

PostgreSQL

Oracle

Job description

American Express is seeking a Cyber Security Engineer focused on Application Security Tooling in Phoenix, AZ. The role strengthens application security, supports secure engineering at scale, and brings together cybersecurity engineering, application security, automation, and secure SDLC practices.

Responsibilities include strengthening security across the application lifecycle, identifying risks, partnering with engineering teams, and driving security tooling and automation in modern