Senior Cloud Engineer - GA at Horizontal Talent in Atlanta, Georgia

Job Description:

Required

• B.S. degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Assurance or related field
  




• Minimum 5+ years of professional experience in application security, penetration testing, security assessment, secure software development or related field
  




• Extensive knowledge with dynamic scanners like Palo Alto Prisma or VeraCode.
  




• Extensive knowledge of the OWASP Top 10
  




• Experience with vulnerability risk and impact assessment
  




• Experience integrating security capabilities in cloud and application lifecycle management platforms especially in a DevOps model
  




• Extensive knowledge of the secure development lifecycle
  




• Extensive knowledge with static analysis tools and flaw triage such as HP Fortify, IBM Rational, Veracode or Coverity, FindBugs, FindSecurityBugs, Brakeman and Open Source scanning tools such as Sonatype CLM
  




• Extensive knowledge with vulnerability scanners like Qualys and Tenable
  




• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  




• Strong sense of urgency and ownership
  

Preferred

• Extensive experience in application security and ethical hacking
  




• Extensive experience exploiting web, mobile and application security vulnerabilities
  




• Extensive experience in software development
  




• Extensive experience integrating secure coding techniques with product teams
  




• Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, OSCP and CEH
  

Responsibilities:

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify weaknesses and vulnerabilities that affect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of corporate protected, sensitive and confidential company information and data
  




• Conduct Static Application Security Test (SAST) and Dynamic Application Security Test (DAST) using VeraCode
  




• Work within the DevSecOps model to secure Containers, withing ROSA, Tekton and OpenShift pipelines
  




• Possess a knowledge of CI/CD orchestration tools such as Jenkins, Tekton, GitLab, or Bamboo.
  




• Provide operational support for container security tools (Palo Alto Prisma, Aqua, or equivalent)
  




• Perform Baseline Image validation of new container template images.
  




• Perform Vulnerability scans on container environments. Develop, test, and maintain containerized applications security
  




• Troubleshoot any connectivity or operational issues.
  




• Ensure security requirements are implemented within various stages of the system development lifecycle process; work closely with development teams to pen test new features within internally developed applications
  




• Apply software development skills (e.g., Java, C#.NET, JavaScript) to recommend secure coding practices
  




• Validate and address vulnerability / threat findings from static and dynamic analysis tools
  




• Characterizes threats and provides recommendations for remediation; manages remediation efforts to completion
  




• Develops and presents finding and remediation reports to audiences including team members from all department areas and levels of the company
  




• Perform security reviews of software designs and assist developers to ensure quality and robustness of our internal products
  




• Conduct security assessments against web applications and APIs across a variety of technology stacks
  




• Ensure adequate security requirements and privacy by design are built into all architecture/infrastructure/projects
  

  
  

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• Impart application security and ethical hacking subject matter expertise into team processes
  




• Drive improvements in the security testing practice to include execution methodology and metrics
  




• Partner effectively with development and infrastructure teams to integrate security
  




• Drive awareness and knowledge of security in developers
  




• Effectively communicate technical issues to non-technical leaders
  




• Continually improve proficiency in application and API exploitation, tools, techniques, and countermeasures