Application Offensive Security Consultant

Experience level: Mid-senior
Experience required: 6 Years
Education level: Bachelors degree
Job function: Information Technology
Industry: Financial Services
Total position: 1


Why you'll love this job:
Being a member of the Application Security team, you will be part of the Technology Risk initiative to support offensive security assessments on applications and provide SME guidance to key projects.

The Application Offensive Security Consultant-Secure Code Reviewer is responsible for providing technical direction and performing secure code review on applications. The person in this role should possess good understanding of application security vulnerabilities, secure coding, software development life cycle (SDLC), offensive security methodology and SAST/DAST.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

Perform Manual Secure Code Review against applications.
Analyze and identify vulnerabilities in source code using manual analysis techniques.
Coordinate with application development teams to collect the application details.
Provide the vulnerability information in the predefined report format after performing the testing using manual methodology
Assist the developers and business teams in detailing the vulnerabilities reported along with the recommendations for remediation
Align risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately
Generate reports on assessment findings and summarizes to facilitate remediation, document technical issues identified during security assessments
Perform threat modeling, design, and code views to assess security implications and requirements
Be a subject matter expert and respond to any security engineering questions/ requests related to Application Defense enhancements
Collaborate with Security Architects, Product Manager, Risk Managers, and other teams to deliver high quality product.

Qualifications:
Minimum of 3+ years of experience in secure code review
Minimum of 5+ years in application security
Experience in performing manual secure code review
Bachelors Degree and/or equivalent experience
Minimum of 5 years of experience in application security
Minimum of 3 years of detecting and analyzing vulnerabilities in at least two of the following languages: Java, C#, C/C++, Python, PHP
Ability to explain vulnerabilities and weaknesses in OWASP Top 10 and SANS Top 25 to any audience and discuss effective defensive techniques
Proficiency with application security best practices with focus on secure coding
Ability to work under pressure, multitask and be flexible
Experience in conducting analysis using commercial tools such as Fortify, Veracode, SonarQube or related tool.