Technical Consultant - Application Security
Wroclaw, PL
IBM
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Your Role and Responsibilities
This role requires extensive knowledge and experience in identifying and providing recommendations to security risks specific to software applications hosted in AWS & Azure cloud environments in-line with industry standards & best practices. It requires expertise in areas such as secure coding practices, interface review, API security review & threat modeling, security testing techniques, and compliance requirements. You will lead all the technical discussions with application owners & customer stake holders and provide guidance to internal teams in executing security assessments. We are looking for an experienced resource with strong knowledge & skill set to support the application security assessment part pf DevSecOps track.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Technical skills:
- Experience in AppSec toolchain. Eg tools:- Burp Proxy, ZAP, Checkmarx, Synopsys etc etc.
- To help product team to implement/integrate Security tool set into DevSecOps CI/CD (Jenkins) pipeline.
- Should be familiar with Secure-SDLC phases, Good in OWASP Standards & guideline and ASVS.
- Hands-on to perform both white & grey box AppSec test in Static Application Security Testing(SAST), Dynamic Application Security Testing(DAST), S/W composition analysis (SCA), S/W dependency scanning.
- Acquaint in AppSec posture management, Review Security Vulnerability Reports & false positive analysis.
- Familiar with IT Policy Framework covers Backup Restoration & Disaster Recovery, Logging monitoring reviews, validate the Configuration & System Integration reviews.
- Expert in Manual & tools-based penetration testing experience (Grey & Black Box) for Applications, ReST based Web APIs or Web Services, and report findings with fix remediations & recommendations to dev team.
- Architecture Design / Solution Outline Reviews from security perspective with Architect & Product team to suggest solutions for secure architecture.
- Threat Modelling Analysis using any of STRIDE / PASTA methodologies or SD Elements.
- Logical Access Model Review -Good understanding on User access models, RBAC & various authentication & authorization, SSO and Federated identity management, basic of Identity Access Management[IAM], Privilege Access model[PAM].
- Guiding development team for Secure Coding best practices & verification to suggest Secrets scanning in Product IDE using plugins in Bit bucket/Code repo.
- Capable of executing Secrets scanning, Container Security using Aqua, Analyse Infrastructure As a Code (IaC) Scanning reports and Terraform & Checkov reports.
Project Management & Soft skills:
- Handling Jira tool & align with Agile Sprints, Weekly & monthly reporting.
- Good Communication skills to support geo-diverse teams includes Dev/Product team, Infosec and management.
- Self-learn and pro-active to drive security team and Self-managed to prioritize individual task.
- Understanding complex cloud, on-prem, hybrid & multi cloud architectures to ensure the design covered key security aspects and latest implementations like Microservices, AI BOTs & IOT to secure architecture etc.
- Knowledge on Enterprise Security Architecture Framework to SABSA, TOGAF, COBIT certifications.
- Client-Server, Legacy, Monolithic, Microservices Architecture, Well-Define Architectures in AWS Cloud.
- Should have work experience in Migration & Cloud Modernization or digital transformation projects.
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
AWS Cloud certification preferred or Knowledgeable in MS-AZURE or Google Cloud & additionally SAP, Salesforce etc.
Key Job Details
Role:Technical Consultant – Application Security Location:Wroclaw, PL Category:Consulting Employment Type:Full-Time Travel Required:Up to 20% or 1 day a week Contract Type:Regular Company:(0109) IBM Polska Sp. zo.o. Req ID:736188BR
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Tags: Agile APIs Application security AWS Azure Black box Checkmarx CI/CD Cloud COBIT Compliance DAST DevSecOps GCP IAM IoT Jenkins Jira Microservices Monitoring OWASP Pentesting SAP SAST SDLC Security assessment SSO Terraform TOGAF
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