Senior DAST Engineer for Web & API Security

Truist; Atlanta (GA); Sur place; USD 120 000 - 180 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401k plan

Vacation time

Sick days

Paid holidays

Résumé du poste

Truist seeks an experienced security engineer specializing in Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) to design, configure, and enhance testing for complex web applications and APIs across the SDLC. You will operate as a technical authority, advancing DAST standards, patterns, and tooling within the Security Engineering group.

The role emphasizes hands-on authenticated assessments, crafting robust scan policies, and solving difficult testing challenges with reusable technical solutions to

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and work-related experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in security engineering or related cybersecurity roles.
• Advanced knowledge in cybersecurity principles, theories, and concepts.
• Proven experience in software development lifecycle security practices.
• Advanced knowledge of threat modeling, security testing, and penetration testing.
• Experience implementing and managing complex information security technologies.

Responsabilités

• Designs, configures, tests, and improves advanced DAST solutions and technical patterns for complex web applications and APIs.
• Performs and validates complex authenticated assessments, including login success, session state, crawl coverage, attack surface coverage, vulnerability results and overall assessment validity.
• Engineers DAST scan policies, authentication workflows, login sequences, session handling, API definitions, custom scripts, integrations, and automation for reliable and repeatable testing.
• Investigates difficult and undefined assessment problems, including multifactor authentication constraints, incomplete crawling, blocked requests, dynamic application behavior, tool limitations, false positives, false negatives, and inconclusive results.
• Uses browser, proxy, HTTP, API, logging, and diagnostic techniques to identify root causes and develop practical, reusable technical solutions.
• Analyzes and documents DAST evidence to distinguish validated vulnerabilities, suspected false positives, coverage limitations, and inconclusive results, and supports remediation verification.
• Partners with application and engineering teams to understand runtime behavior, resolve testability constraints, and establish technically appropriate DAST configurations without assuming ownership of application readiness.
• Serves as a technical escalation point, reviews complex configurations and technical evidence, and shares specialized knowledge through peer reviews, troubleshooting sessions, and reusable documentation.

Connaissances

DAST

Web apps

APIs

Threat modeling

CI/CD security

Authentication workflows

Formation

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Outils

DAST tooling

Description du poste

Truist seeks an experienced security engineer specializing in Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) to design, configure, and enhance testing for complex web applications and APIs across the SDLC. You will operate as a technical authority, advancing DAST standards, patterns, and tooling within the Security Engineering group.

The role emphasizes hands-on authenticated assessments, crafting robust scan policies, and solving difficult testing challenges with reusable technical solutions to