AppSec Engineering Lead: Secure CI/CD & Automation

Gartner; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 116,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

Mentorship & development

401k with company match

Employee stock purchase plan

Generous PTO

Job summary

Gartner IT is seeking a Lead Security Engineer to support its AppSec function. You will drive vulnerability assessments, partner with security and technology teams, and orchestrate security tooling and automation across complex environments in a hybrid work model with Irving, TX or Stamford, CT centers.

You will mentor engineers in threat modeling, triage risks, and implement security controls while measuring impact with KRIs and security scorecards.

Qualifications

• Experience with vulnerability scanning technologies and AST platforms.
• Formal experience with threat modeling.
• Experience leading projects and teams.
• Knowledge of risk assessment with attacker mindset.
• Cloud experience (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Infrastructure as Code and Policy as Code concepts.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to design secure applications, test for security weaknesses, and remediate issues.
• Mentor engineers on practical threat modeling techniques
• Triage and prioritize security risks, vulnerabilities, and exceptions in alignment with business impact and risk tolerance.
• Coordinate the orchestration, automation, and management of security technologies and platforms.
• Own day-to-day life cycle management, including threat assessment, threat modeling and risk avoidance.
• Create reasonable and actionable reports showing direct impact to the security posture.
• Define and implement meaningful metrics to measure the effectiveness of security controls through KRIs and security scorecards.
• Serve as a subject-matter-expert for Application Security; act as a first point of contact for critical issues, security risk assessments and triaging CI/CD issues with Partners and stakeholders.
• Evaluate business and technical requirements to identify and implement tools, processes, and technologies to improve our security posture in our environments.
• Use data to drive prioritization, highlight systemic issues, and influence roadmap decisions

Skills

Vulnerability scanning

Threat modeling

Security architecture

CI/CD security

Project leadership

Tools

AST platforms

Vulnerability scanners

DevSecOps tooling

Cloud security tooling

IaC tooling

Job description

Gartner IT is seeking a Lead Security Engineer to support its AppSec function. You will drive vulnerability assessments, partner with security and technology teams, and orchestrate security tooling and automation across complex environments in a hybrid work model with Irving, TX or Stamford, CT centers.

You will mentor engineers in threat modeling, triage risks, and implement security controls while measuring impact with KRIs and security scorecards.