Offensive Security Consultant

Application Offensive Security Consultant

Experience level: Mid-senior |
Experience required: 6 Years |
Education level: Bachelors degree |
Job function: Information Technology |
Industry: Financial Services |
Total position: 1

Why you'll love this job: Being a member of the Application Security team, you will be part of the Technology Risk initiative to support offensive security assessments on applications and provide SME guidance to key projects.

The Application Offensive Security Consultant – Secure Code Reviewer is responsible for providing technical direction and performing secure code review on applications. The person in this role should possess good understanding of application security vulnerabilities, secure coding, software development life cycle (SDLC), offensive security methodology and SAST/DAST.

• Perform Manual Secure Code Review against applications.
• Analyze and identify vulnerabilities in source code using manual analysis techniques.
• Coordinate with application development teams to collect the application details.
• Provide the vulnerability information in the predefined report format after performing the testing using manual methodology.
• Assist the developers and business teams in detailing the vulnerabilities reported along with the recommendations for remediation.
• Align risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately.
• Generate reports on assessment findings and summarize to facilitate remediation, document technical issues identified during security assessments.
• Perform threat modeling, design, and code views to assess security implications and requirements.
• Be a subject matter expert and respond to any security engineering questions or requests related to Application Defense enhancements.
• Collaborate with Security Architects, Product Manager, Risk Managers, and other teams to deliver high quality product.

• Minimum of 3+ years of experience in secure code review.
• Minimum of 5+ years in application security.
• Experience in performing manual secure code review.
• Bachelors Degree and/or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in application security.
• Minimum of 3 years of detecting and analyzing vulnerabilities in at least two of the following languages:
  Java, C#, C/C++, Python, PHP.
• Ability to explain vulnerabilities and weaknesses in OWASP Top 10 and SANS Top 25 to any audience and discuss effective defensive techniques.
• Proficiency with application security best practices with focus on secure coding.
• Ability to work under pressure, multitask and be flexible.
• Experience in conducting analysis using commercial tools such as Fortify, Veracode, Sonar Qube or related tool.