Senior Application security architect
Cybrella
Senior Application security architect
Providing guidance to the Technology Risk team, the application development teams, the DevOps team, the cloud engineering team, and to other internal engineers and developers.
Roles & Responsibilities:
● An application security architect's responsibilities include reviewing architecture and design, designing and planning application security controls, as well as designing and assessing cloud security architectures.
● Manual Secure Code Review Consultant is responsible for the Manual secure code review and assessment of in-house developed source code of Web/Non-web and cloud apps, API’s using manual approach primarily, develop and leverage custom scripts and tools as required.
● Interaction with developers (Application Development) to gather application source code details, conduct code review and provide technical assistance in remediating application security issues will be part of the responsibilities.
● Document vulnerabilities and work with developers on vulnerability mitigation.
● Perform re-reviews to validate the fixes on the reported vulnerabilities.
● Provide excellent coordination with local teams (which includes vendor consultants), onsite team and various other support teams in organization.
● Provides regular status updates on all assigned tasks and deliverables.
Qualifications:
● Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline preferred.
● Experience required: 4-5 Years.
● Proficiency in secure coding standards and manual review of code to identify OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities and SANS Top 25 Programming errors.
● The individual should possess strong knowledge of Secure coding principles across widely used programming languages (Java, Angular/Node JS, Java Script, Python, Ruby etc.) along with excellent communication, analysis and organizational skills.
● Strong knowledge of security frameworks (OWASP, SANS CWE), secure coding practices, information security principles & architecture and industry specific auditory frameworks.
● Experience with common web stack technologies (e.g., HTTP, HTML5, AJAX, REST, etc.) and platforms (e.g., Tomcat, .Net, MS SQL, etc.).
● Experience in crafting custom proof of concept application exploits using testing tools/frameworks or scripting exploits in Python, Perl, JavaScript, Shell scripting, etc..
● Understanding of Authentication, Authorization mechanism programmatically across different web technologies and protocols (SSL/TLS, REST, OAuth, SAML etc.).
● Knowledge on Application development using technologies like Java, J2EE, Groovy, Ruby, Angular JS, Node JS, Java Script, Python.
● Should have a solid understanding of security controls and how they apply to different designs and systems.
● Understand, highlight and articulate risk to product owners in an understandable language.
● Knowledge of DevSecOps and development pipeline integration and automation.
● Knowledge in Cloud and Containers infrastructure.
● At least 4 years of progressive development experience with 3+ years in Secure Code review and Application Security.
● Proficiency with Application Security best practices with more focus secure coding guidelines.
● Experience in performing manual secure code review of popular web application programming languages (Java, Javascript, Angular, Python, Perl, optionally Objective-C, etc.).
● Demonstrated proficiency of troubleshooting techniques and detail-oriented problem-solving mindset.
● Ability to conduct research into technical issues, standards, and products.
● Good written and verbal communication skills and the ability to interact well with different levels within the organization.
● Have one or more of the following active certifications ISC2 Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP), Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC) Secure Software Programmer (GSSP-Java), EC-Council Certified Secure Programmer (CSP).