Principal Application Security Analyst

U.S. Citizenship is required for this position due to Department of Defense restrictions.

Our Principal Application Security Analyst builds and operates WPS’s enterprise Application Security program, reducing application risk by operationalizing secure-development standards, strengthening developer secure-coding practices, running application-security testing tools, and reporting results to technical, managerial, and executive audiences. They sit within our Cyber Threat Management team and work in close partnership with Cyber Trust & Architecture, that own enterprise security standards, to translate those standards into practical developer guidance and testing criteria.

This Senior Analyst is an individual-contributor position requires technical depth and will provide organizational influence to work independently with developers, interpret application security findings, and communicate risk at multiple levels of the organization. Success in this role will strengthen the security of WPS applications throughout the SDLC. This Principal Analyst manages day-to-day application-security testing, triage, and developer engagement independently, while partnering with Cyber Trust & Architecture on standards interpretation and with the Manager, Cyber Threat Management on program priorities.
Salary Range - $135,000 ~ $165,000
The base pay offered for this position may vary within the posted range based on your job-related knowledge, skills, experience and
may fall outside of this range.
Work Location
Our first consideration will be to have this employee be able to take advantage of Hybrid work and collaboration, living within the state of Wisconsin. Employees within 45 miles of WPS Headquarters (1717 W. Broadway in Madison, WI, 53713) will be expected to be able to work in office 3 days a week on a regular basis.

How do I know this opportunity is right for me? If you:

• Can operate, tune, and continuously improve enterprise application-security testing capabilities (SAST, DAST, SCA, API and secrets scanning), distinguishing exploitable weaknesses from false positives and integrating testing into the development and CI/CD lifecycle.
• Want to partner with Cyber Trust & Architecture to translate enterprise application-security standards and secure-by-design requirements into practical developer guidance, testing criteria, and implementation practices across the software-development lifecycle.
• Have built and delivered a developer-focused secure-coding education program, using real vulnerability trends and hands-on guidance to strengthen developers’ ability to meet enterprise security standards.
• Enjoy developing and maintaining technical, managerial, and executive reporting that translates application-security findings, vulnerability trends, and standards adoption into actionable, risk-based information.
• Thrive when coordinating the remediation of application vulnerabilities with developers and system owners, prioritizing based on actual exploitability and business risk, and validating fixes through retesting.
• Want to apply current threat intelligence and attacker techniques to application-security testing and priorities, partnering with Cyber Trust & Architecture, Cyber Risk & Assurance, and development teams to strengthen security outcomes.

Minimum Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship is required for this position due to Department of Defense restrictions.
• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related field or equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience.
• 5 or more years of progressive experience in application security, software security, Dev Sec Ops , or a related technical security discipline.
• Hands-on…