What are the responsibilities and job description for the Application Security Engineer - Fully Remote position at Actalent?
Actalent Engineering has a Fortune 500 Telecommunications client in Raleigh, NC, hiring a remote Application Security Engineer to join their team!
Description:
· Collaborate closely with our internal engineering, operations, and network teams as well as our client's corporate security teams to review new architecture/solutions and provide security recommendations and requirements. Ensure our solutions are designed and implemented to highest security standards.
· Conduct security assessments of our existing environment, analyze results, identify risks/gaps, work with IOT Control Center teams on remediation activities and/or compensating controls, and track remediation efforts to completion.
· Monitor current security alerts/vulnerabilities identified through our logging/scanning solutions and follow up with our teams on resolution for those alerts/vulnerabilities.
· Participate as a member of the incident response team by conducting forensic analysis and troubleshooting to assist in the containment and remediation of security incidents.
· Improve the efficiency and/or automate the existing security and compliance team processes.
· Provide recommendations on security products and solutions including encryption technologies, secrets storage, certificate management, intrusion detection/prevention, identity and access management, and security scanning and assessment tools for both traditional on-prem and AWS environments.
Maintain up-to-date detailed knowledge of the information security industry, including awareness of new or revised security solutions, improved security processes, and the identification of current and new attacks and threat vectors that might affect our environment.
· Day to day:
o Need to have experience in building/coding applications
· Not hands on what they are doing now, but need some exposure with building it and the kind of security that a web application would need
o OWASP Top 10 understanding
o Working a lot with people
· Burp Suite
· Write a script to look for something
o Work with the team to make sure the applications they are building are meeting all of the security standards
· OWASP
· Understanding of how cyphers work
Need:
o Have the technical background and expertise, but also be able to people manager in order to drive forward
o Application Security background
o How to build checks in an application because it's on the web
o Understanding what the teams are doing, how they are building what they are building
o Making sure, they are currently building applications according to security standards
Minimum Qualifications and Technical Expertise:
· Bachelor's degree in an information technology discipline
· Minimum 4 years of hands-on information security operations experience
· Technical experience designing security within web applications (we use java, go)
· Hand-on experience working in Linux environments
· Technical experience with containers
· Experience designing and managing security processes (access management, vulnerability management, incident management, etc.)
· Proficient in one or more scripting languages: UNIX Shell, PowerShell, JavaScript, JSON, Perl, Ruby
· Understanding of a wide range of security technologies, such as network security appliances, identity and access management systems, anti-malware solutions, file integrity monitoring system, security scanning tools, etc.
· AWS/Public Cloud experience a plus
About Actalent:
Actalent connects passion with purpose. Our scalable talent solutions and services capabilities drive value and results and provide the expertise to help our customers achieve more. Every day, our experts around the globe are making an impact. We’re supporting critical initiatives in engineering and sciences that advance how companies serve the world. Actalent promotes consultant care and engagement through experiences that enable continuous development. Our people are the difference. Actalent is an operating company of Allegis Group, the global leader in talent solutions.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
Salary : $57 - $60
