Senior Application & Cloud Container Security Engineer / Atlanta GA

Required Skills & Experience

• 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, guide 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
• 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
• Experience implementing, deploying, and providing support for custom AWS Config Rules, CFN Hooks and CFN Guard Rules.
• Comfortable building and supporting applications in the Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Competence engineering software within an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure.
• Experience integrating Open-source controls and tools into current enterprise architecture.
• Have experience reviewing Open-source components to making recommendations to configuration or environmental changes that increase security or reduce risk

Desired Skills & Experience

• 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 AWS practitioner, cloud security certification for AWS, and CISSP

What You Will Be Doing

• Responsibilities will include application security assessments, code reviews, container security, and manual API testing using tools like Burp Suite.
• 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, withing 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.
• Evaluate scans 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
• Characterizes threats and provides recommendations for remediation; manages remediation efforts to completion
• Develops and presents finding 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
• Integrating 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