Senior DAST Engineer – Web & API Security

Truist; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k plan

Paid vacation

Job summary

Truist is seeking an experienced Advanced DAST Specialist to design, configure, and enhance testing capabilities across web applications and APIs throughout the software development lifecycle.

Ideal candidates bring deep application security expertise and experience creating reusable solutions to improve scan accuracy, coverage, and reliability, with the ability to act as a technical authority within Security Engineering.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and work-related experience.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 inconsistent 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.

Skills

Security engineering

Threat modeling

Penetration testing

Secure SDLC

Authentication/Authorization

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

DAST tools

CI/CD integrations

Job description

Truist is seeking an experienced Advanced DAST Specialist to design, configure, and enhance testing capabilities across web applications and APIs throughout the software development lifecycle.

Ideal candidates bring deep application security expertise and experience creating reusable solutions to improve scan accuracy, coverage, and reliability, with the ability to act as a technical authority within Security Engineering.