Senior Application Security Engineer (Hybrid)

Vanguard Group; Lees (PA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & wellness benefits

Work-life balance

Investment in your future

Job summary

Vanguard Group’s Global Risk and Security division is seeking an experienced professional to help define and execute application security strategy across the enterprise. You will partner with development teams to build secure SDLC practices and implement guardrails for APIs, cloud-native apps, containers, and serverless platforms.

This role focuses on identifying vulnerabilities, guiding remediation, enabling CI/CD security, and maturing security metrics and governance.

Qualifications

• Five+ years of relevant work experience.
• Undergraduate degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Expertise in Application Security, Secure SDLC, DevSecOps, or Software Engineering.
• Hands-on security of CI/CD pipelines and modern development environments.
• Experience with SAST, SCA, IAST, DAST, API Security, and Container Security.
• Cloud platforms and cloud-native technologies experience.
• Strong secure coding, vulnerability management, and risk assessment skills.
• Experience partnering with development teams to remediate findings.
• Experience designing security automation solutions.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement Application Security strategy and secure SDLC practices across the organization.
• Partner with development teams to establish security requirements early in the software development lifecycle.
• Design and implement security controls and guardrails for APIs, cloud-native apps, containers, serverless platforms, and emerging technologies.
• Develop and maintain security standards and architecture patterns for APIs, cloud-native applications, containers, serverless platforms, and emerging technologies.
• Assess, prioritize, and drive remediation of vulnerabilities identified through SAST, SCA, IAST, DAST, container, and cloud security solutions.
• Configure, integrate, and onboard teams to application security tools across CI/CD environments.
• Automate security processes and controls to improve efficiency, scalability, and developer adoption.
• Conduct security reviews, threat analyses, and risk assessments for new and existing applications.
• Partner with developers to identify root causes of vulnerabilities and provide remediation guidance.
• Ensure application security solutions are properly implemented and delivering coverage.
• Develop security metrics, reporting, and dashboards to measure program effectiveness and maturity.
• Provide secure coding guidance, technical consultation, and training to development and cloud engineering teams.
• Maintain documentation for security controls, processes, standards, and procedures.
• Stay current with OWASP, NIST, SANS guidance and industry trends.
• Support enterprise application security standards, policies, and governance initiatives.

Skills

Application Security

Secure SDLC

DevSecOps

SAST

SCA

IAST

DAST

Cloud Platforms

Container Security

Secure Coding

Vulnerability Management

Education

Bachelor's or related degree

Equivalent training & experience

Job description

Vanguard Group’s Global Risk and Security division is seeking an experienced professional to help define and execute application security strategy across the enterprise. You will partner with development teams to build secure SDLC practices and implement guardrails for APIs, cloud-native apps, containers, and serverless platforms.

This role focuses on identifying vulnerabilities, guiding remediation, enabling CI/CD security, and maturing security metrics and governance.