Senior Application & Cloud Container Security Engineer

As a Senior Application & Cloud Container Security Engineer, you will leverage your expertise in cybersecurity to identify application vulnerabilities through security assessments, code reviews, and manual API testing using tools like Burp Suite.

You should have experience with AWS Config Rules, CFN Hooks, and supporting cloud applications (AWS, Azure, GCP). Additionally, you will integrate open-source controls into enterprise architecture and recommend changes to enhance security and reduce risk.

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Key Responsibilities :

• Conduct Static Application Security Test (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Test (DAST) and Source Code Analysis (SCA) using VeraCode.
• Correlate findings from tools such as VeraCode Source Code Agent to identify presence of vulnerable methods in code.
• Research open-source community contributors and NIST NVD to understand residual risk and recommend course of action.
• Determine how frequently and quickly fixes should be delivered for open-source findings.
• Review SCA reports to track new and changes to SCA components in the environment.
• Experience working with tools such as Sonatype nexus firewall and lifecycle to track and block risk 3rd-party components.
• Work within the DevSecOps model to secure Containers, within ROSA, Tekton and OpenShift pipelines.
• Design, develop, plan, implement, and maintain Cloud DevSecOps processes across multiple technical organizations, instantiating security testing for internally developed systems, applications, and infrastructure against business requirements.
• Guide development teams in integrating new services and applications into the CI / CD pipeline, troubleshoot installations and build automated deployments of products into a high-security architecture.
• Possess a knowledge of CI / CD orchestration tools such as Jenkins, Tekton, GitLab, or Bamboo.
• Provide operational support for container security tools (Palo Alto Prisma, Aqua, Wiz or equivalent).
• Perform Baseline Image validation of new container template images and evaluate scan results for container runtime environments to reduce security risk.
• Troubleshoot any connectivity or operational issues for clusters being evaluated in the Prisma tool.
• Apply software development skills (e.g., Java, C#.NET, JavaScript) to recommend and apply secure coding practices.
• Validate and address vulnerability / threat findings from static and dynamic analysis tools, characterizing threats and providing recommendations for remediation;

manage remediation efforts to completion.

• Develop and present findings and remediation reports to audiences including team members from all department areas and levels of the company.
• Perform security reviews of software designs and assist developers to ensure quality and robustness of our internal products.
• Conduct security assessments against web applications and APIs across a variety of technology stacks.
• Ensure adequate security requirements and privacy by design are built into all architecture / infrastructure / projects.
• Integrate threat modeling practices into the application testing lifecycle.
• Impart application security and ethical hacking subject matter expertise into team processes.
• Drive improvements in the security testing practice to include execution methodology and metrics.
• Drive awareness and knowledge of security in the developer community.
• Continually improve proficiency in application and API exploitation, tools, techniques, and countermeasures.

Required Qualifications :

• B.S. degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Assurance or related field.
• Minimum 5+ years of professional experience in application security, penetration testing, security assessment, secure software development or related field.
• Hands-on experience working with Cloud and / or DevSecOps related technologies.
• Excellent understanding of DevSecOps techniques and processes, guiding integration of various tools in DevSecOps processes (GitLab / GitHub, SonarQube, Jenkins, Selenium, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, and containerization).
• Should be well versed with the AWS well-architected framework or TOGAF and able to apply those principles while designing a solution.
• Experience building and supporting applications in the Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience engineering software within an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot and resolve problems with existing cloud controls.
• Extensive knowledge of the OWASP Top 10 and experience with vulnerability risk and impact assessment.
• Experience integrating security capabilities in cloud and application lifecycle management platforms especially in a DevOps model.
• Extensive knowledge with static analysis tools and flaw triage such as HP Fortify, IBM Rational, Veracode or Coverity, FindBugs, FindSecurityBugs, Brakeman and Open Source scanning tools such as Sonatype CLM.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and a strong sense of urgency and ownership.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Extensive experience in application security and ethical hacking.
• Extensive experience exploiting web, mobile and application security vulnerabilities.
• Extensive experience in software development.
• Extensive experience integrating secure coding techniques with product teams.
• Professional certifications such as AWS practitioner, cloud security certification for AWS, and CISSP.

Job Type : Contract

Pay : $50.00 per hour

Expected hours : 40 per week

Schedule :

8 hour shift

Experience :

• DevSecOps : 5 years (Required)
• Open source integration : 5 years (Required)
• Application Security : 5 years (Required)
• Cloud Technologies : 5 years (Required)
• Vulnerability assessment : 5 years (Required)
• Security tools : 5 years (Required)

Ability to Relocate :

Atlanta, GA : Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location : In person

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