Sr Application Security Engineer

Overview

Support Gartner's AppSec function by executing daily vulnerability assessments, partnering with Information Security and technology stakeholders on risk remediation, and engineering automation and security tool integrations.

What you'll do

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to design secure applications, test applications for security weaknesses, and partner on remediation of identified issues.
• Mentor engineers and security champions on practical threat modeling techniques.
• Triage and prioritize security risks, vulnerabilities, and exceptions in alignment with business impact and risk tolerance.
• Coordinate the orchestration, automation, and management of security technologies and platforms.
• Own day-to-day life cycle management, including identification, threat assessment, threat modeling and risk avoidance.
• Create reasonable and actionable reports showing direct impact to the security posture.
• Define and implement meaningful metrics to measure the effectiveness of security controls through KRIs and security scorecards.
• Serve as subject-matter expert for Application Security and first point of contact for critical issues, security risk assessments and triaging CI/CD issues with partners and stakeholders.
• Evaluate business and technical requirements to identify and implement tools, processes, and technologies to improve the security posture of the environments.
• Use data to drive prioritization, highlight systemic issues, and influence roadmap decisions.
• Provide education and training, and engineer automation solutions and/or security tool integrations to assist with day-to-day AppSec responsibilities.

What you'll need

• 4-6 years of experience in a Security Engineering role.
• Proven experience in DevSecOps, Cloud Security, and Application Security.
• Experience using vulnerability scanning technologies, AST platforms, and cloud security tooling.
• Formal experience with threat modeling.
• Experience leading projects, initiatives, and resources through direct and indirect leadership.
• Deep knowledge of assessing and prioritizing risk, with an ability to think like a bad actor and use that context to conduct threat models.
• Cloud experience (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Policy as Code (PaC) concepts.
• Strong independent critical thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to evaluate and pivot based on current organizational priorities.
• Proven communication, collaboration, and critical thinking skills.
• Ability to build trusting, meaningful relationships with peers, stakeholders, partners and suppliers.
• Ability to define and communicate risk in business-relevant language to both non-technical and technical audiences.
• Ability to apply expert knowledge to solve complex business/technical issues strategically.
• Desire for life-long learning and continuous personal/professional development.

Details

• Location: Gurgaon.
• Work mode: hybrid, working virtually when productive and getting together with colleagues in the office.
• Team operates on a continuous 2-11 PM model to protect global systems and support business needs across time zones.