Application Security Engineer - Agentic Harness

Who We’re Looking For

The State Street Cyber Security Architecture & Engineering team is seeking an accomplished professional with proven expertise in Application Security (App Sec) and Dev Sec Ops . The ideal candidate will have hands‑on experience in application security, build, and release management, secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC), and the automation of security processes within CI/CD pipelines. Familiarity with general automation practices is essential.

The ideal candidate will show eagerness to learn and grow in all aspects of technical solutioning and will design, implement, and support agile solutions and processes leveraged by a large number of applications hosted in our environment.

The State Street Cyber Security Architecture & Engineering team is seeking an accomplished professional with proven expertise in Application Security (App Sec) and Dev Sec Ops . The ideal candidate will have hands‑on experience in application security, build, and release management, secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC), and the automation of security processes within CI/CD pipelines. Familiarity with general automation practices is essential.

The ideal candidate will show eagerness to learn and grow in all aspects of technical solutioning and will design, implement, and support agile solutions and processes leveraged by a large number of applications hosted in our environment.

• Help build our Dev Sec Ops  & App Sec Strategy to integrate cybersecurity into the organizational adoption and improvement of agile practices.
• Partner with Engineering teams leads to create, implement, and apply Dev Sec Ops , and App Sec principles and processes.
• Assist application teams with onboarding to the adopted security tools/technologies; working with vendors to troubleshoot the platform and issues related to such integrations.
• Assist development community to triage Static Application Security Testing (SAST) and Software Composition Analysis (SCA) vulnerabilities, and partner to remediate the application security vulnerabilities.
• Deliver and communicate reporting via dashboard, and metrics.
• Develop and maintain application security and Dev Sec Ops  documentation.
• Assist in the audit processes and provide relevant documentation to close Audit findings.
• Work with teams to continuously improve Dev Sec Ops , & Application Security processes and tools.
• Deliver tasks based on project objectives; technically support projects through to completion.

These skills will help you succeed in this role

• Experience developing software in technologies such as Java, .Net, Python, and Node.js etc.
• Experience in cloud technologies such as Azure and AWS.
• Extensive experience in application security space including SAST, DAST, SCA and Container security.
• Current information security certification, including Certified Information Security Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
• Experience with automation and orchestration tools, such as Ansible, Terraform, or Kubernetes, is valuable. Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and experience in automating deployment and management tasks in a hybrid cloud environment is beneficial.
• Proven technical solutioning experience with current and emerging technologies including, but not limited to:
  Agile Development, Dev Ops, Cloud Engineering, System Hardening, Dev Sec Ops , Cybersecurity, Cloud Security.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills across internal and external organizations.
• Ability to prioritize and manage several projects or priorities simultaneously.

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology (IT), computer science, or related field with 6 years of relevant experience.
• Experience in software development and software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Experience with application security tooling and its operations with modern CI/CD, and Dev Sec Ops  best practices.
• Experience partnering with Dev community to influence without authority to adopt application security best practices, and tooling.
• Security+ or other cybersecurity security certification.
• Experi…