Senior Application Security Specialist

What to expect

As part of the team you will drive and/or contribute to key activities such:

• Be the trusted partner of Agile and DevSecOps teams to support and collaborate securing their products from application and/or architecture perspective.
• Provide security requirements aligned with policies and standards and adapted to technologies stacks (Cloud Native containers orchestrator etc).
• Provide security technical assistance during software design development and operations activities.
• Maintain security standards and guidelines to respond to changes in threats technology or best practices.
• Manage and promote usage of security tools in development pipeline and operations.
• Research and assess new threats vulnerabilities and security alerts and recommend remedial actions.
• Design and implementation of capabilities processes and/or tools to improve the security in the software delivery life cycle security automation testing secure by design activities etc.
• Identify opportunities for improvements in work processes and innovative approaches to completing scope of work in an efficient way.
• Promote a strong security culture at Swift. We expect you to treat security culture as a brand take it seriously and recognized that it is hard-fought and easily lost.
• Coach and share knowledge with team members.

Professional knowledge and expertise

• Strong understanding in application security
• Security architecture including threat modelling and risk analysis.
• Security requirements definition based on business needs classification threats and risks.
• Demonstrated experience in secure coding security testing practices and tools and vulnerability management.
• OWASP top 10.
• SAST DAST SCA API testing and/or containers vulnerability management
• Risk Assessments experience being able to use advanced security and analytical skills to evaluate security risks identify and design mitigations to bring risk within appetite.
• Understanding of Agile and DevSecOps principles and how to integrate security into them.

• Typically has 4 to 5 years of relevant work experience.

Other expectations and skills

• Team player respect diversity.
• Act with business understanding build and reinforce customer relationship.
• Self-organised proactive and accountable for delivering results.
• Demonstrate operational excellence. Ability to self-learn and coach others in fast paced complex and technical environment.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Communicate effectively strong written verbal and presentation skills able to adapt communication to diverse audiences

What we offer

We give you the freedom to be yourself. We are creating an environment of unique individuals like you with different perspectives on the financial industry and the world. A diverse and inclusive environment in which everyones voice counts and where you can reach your full potential.

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Dont meet every single requirement At Swift we are dedicated to building a workplace where people can bring their full selves and ideas to the team so if you are excited about this role we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every single qualification.