Application security engineer

Responsibility

The Application Security Tester is responsible for detecting threats and vulnerabilities in target systems, networks, and applications by conducting systems, network, and web vulnerability assessment / security testing. The Application Security Tester identifies the security flaws and weaknesses in the systems that can be exploited to cause business risk, and provides crucial insights into the most pressing issues, suggesting how to prioritize security resources

 

Activities

·         Conducts vulnerability assessment on the target IT Infrastructure, applications, and related information assets

·         Conducts walk-through of the assessment report to the stakeholders and help define remediation plan

·         Creates process improvement by identifying inefficiencies and solutions for process improvements

·         Develops and maintains a set of operational and forward-looking security metrics

·         Follows a standard methodology to identify and/or detect threats to the IT infrastructure, applications, and other information assets

·         Interacts with partners as needed to explain work product, security techniques, methodology and results to ensure appropriate business value

·         Oversees monitoring of security reports to identify issues and follow these issues to resolution Performs web application security assessments (e.g., exploiting web app vulnerabilities such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting, parameter manipulation, session hijacking, etc.

·         Prepares system security reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data and trends; presents reporting for management review

·         Promotes cross-department collaboration and communication to ensure appropriate processes, procedures and tools are installed, monitored, and effectively operating and alerting

·         Provides direction and act as an escalation point on projects and issues to other team members,

·         Provides technical security consulting support to address complex business and technology projects and requests

·         Updates job knowledge by tracking and understanding emerging security practices and standards; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations

·         Works with various teams to follow a pre-assessment plan/ and assessment schedule for every assessment, conduct threat assessment, and deliver an assessment report

·         Writes clear implementation guidelines for the implementation engineers

Required knowledge

·         SQL Injection.

·         Cross Site scripting

·         Parameter Manipulation

·         SAST and DAST

·         OWASP top 10

·         CVSS and how to apply

·         NMAP

Benefits

• 20 vacation days per year
  
• Aguinaldo superior 
• Major and minor medical insurance
• Grocery Vouchers
• Learning Platform