Responsibilities
- Setup and lead application security team.
- Triage High/Critical findings & drive mitigation. (SAST SCA DAST VDP).
- Identify approve high severity True or False positive vulnerabilities.
- Support Product teams implementing SAST/SCA in their CI/CD pipelines.
- Support Product Teams with Application security expertise for best mitigation of findings.
- Provide generic application security consultancy.
- Identify security risks in application architecture and infrastructure drive mitigations.
- Contribute to the target SSDLC framework.
- Support application security team strategically and technically developing and improving the main pillars of application security.
- Support Security & Privacy Engineering Key activities.
Role Description
- The Application Security Tech Lead is responsible for setting up leading and functionally steering a team of application security engineers.
- Contribute to ensure that each steps of SDLC used by software engineers across METRO is following best practices in term of information security and data privacy.
- Contribute to develop and maintain the needed technologies and processes to be included in CI/CD to include tollgates to secure that security control validations are automatically performed during development and deployment phases
- Support software engineer teams across METRO to address identified software vulnerabilities and weaknesses
- Serve as the technical authority providing expert guidance to the security engineers where needed.
Technical & Soft Skills:
- InDepth knowledge of application security technologies and tools such as SASTSCADAST.
- Strong knowledge and skills in scripting and development of automation in CI/CD.
- Good understanding of .git concepts and market leading vendors like GitHub GitLab.
- Deep understanding of OWASP ASVS is a must.
- Proficiency in concepts of vulnerability assessments and scans using automated tools (Qualys Polaris
- Understanding of common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) and vulnerability databases.
- Familiarity with vulnerability management frameworks and methodologies such as the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) and the Common Vulnerability Enumeration (CVE) system.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with clients stakeholders and internal teams.
- Proficient in producing reports briefings and presentations to communicate findings trends and recommendations to stakeholders.
- Strong organizational and time management skills with the ability to coordinate and prioritize multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Ability to work under pressure.
Qualifications :
Qualifications & Experience
Bachelors degree in computer science Information Technology Cybersecurity or a related field. A masters degree or relevant certifications (e.g. CISSP CSSLP) may be preferred.
Senior Engineer: 7 years of relevant experience preferably in an enterprise.
Hands on DevSecOps experience.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime