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Specific Responsibilities

• Recommend, evaluate and enforce security vulnerability scanning application findings including static, binary and related security frameworks etc.

• Research, investigate and perform risk analysis of new findings surfaced by various application security tools and services.

• Supports and implements Web Application Firewall (WAF) rulesets.

• Perform code reviews and perform analysis using application security toolsets.

• Educates developers on application security best practices.

• Support software developers in triaging and remediating security issues.

• Code optimization, tuning and filtering to remove false positives and increase visibility.

• Evangelize security tooling throughout the organization.

• Be an influencer of change while maintaining a strong relationship with the development organization.

Required Skills

• Ability to proficiently code in Java, Python and NodeJS.

• Ability to understand various application code base regardless of the programming language.

• Ability to describe security best practices to software development teams.

• Ability understand complex software architectures and their deployment models.

• Ability to understand security issues identified by security scans regardless of application programing language.

Ability to research, analyze, and understand known and new CVEs

Experience Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a Security Engineer with active design & development experience in languages such as Java, Python and NodeJS and in performing software-based risk assessments.

• Experience with enterprise rollout of Static Analysis Security Testing (SAST) tools such as Fortify or other similar tools is an added advantage.

• Experience working in collaboration with software engineering organizations to improve security posture.

• Experience with Web Application Firewall technologies such as Imperva or F5.

• Experience in financial services and security technology industries.

• BS in Computer Science or Equivalent.

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