What are the responsibilities and job description for the Application Security Engineer position at Actalent?
Description:
About Us
This team is an application performance and security monitoring solution that provides real-time visibility and insight into applications and their environments. With our unique solution, you can take the right action at precisely the right time with automated anomaly detection, rapid root-cause analysis, and a unified view of your entire application ecosystem, including private and public clouds. Using AppDynamics, you’ll finally align IT, DevOps, Engineering, and the business around the information that helps you protect your bottom line and deliver magnificent customer experiences.
What You'll Do
The Security Engineering team is responsible for our foundational security capabilities. At the summary level, this means assessing and then implementing and/or tuning the processes and tools supporting Application Security (especially Threat and Vulnerability Management for AppD on-prem and SaaS product offerings), Cloud and Network Security (AWS and some Azure) and IT Security.
Who You'll Work With
The Security Engineering team partners and works cross-functionally with peers across the Product and Engineering organization. This includes, but is not limited to teams such as - Product Reliability Engineering (PRE), Services Reliability Engineering (SRE), Technical Operations (TechOps), Build and Release Engineering (BARE), and IT. This also includes peer all groups within Information Security, with particular emphasis on Security Architecture and Product Security.
Top Skills Details:
Python, Django, Jira
Additional Skills & Qualifications:
Responsibilities:
• Deploy, support and use tools like Black Duck, Check Marx, Tenable, Threadfix and Lacework
• Triage application security vulnerabilities, assign to correct teams, and assist with remediation
• Use CVSS calculator to generate CVSS scores for customer and pen test reported vulnerabilities
• Manual and semi-automated triage of vulnerabilities until better auto-triage is in place
• Write security policies
Qualifications:
• Black Duck
• Checkmarx
• Tenable
• CVSS
• Experience with threat and vulnerability management
• Knowledge of OWASP Top 10
• Knowledge of Security Standards (ex: operation system hardening)
Preferred Qualifications:
• Threadfix
• Lacework
• Development experience
• Technical writing
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
At Actalent, diversity and inclusion are a bridge towards the equity and success of our people. DE&I are embedded into our culture through:
- Hiring diverse talent
- Maintaining an inclusive environment through persistent self-reflection
- Building a culture of care, engagement, and recognition with clear outcomes
- Ensuring growth opportunities for our people
Actalent is an equal opportunity employer.
About Actalent
Actalent connects passion with purpose. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts that drive scale, innovation, and speed to market. With a network of almost 30,000 engineering and sciences consultants and more than 4,500 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia, and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500. An operating company of Allegis Group, the global leader in talent solutions, Actalent launched as a new specialized engineering and sciences services and workforce solutions brand in 2021.
Salary : $48 - $60
