Sr. Security Engineer at Pyramid Consulting, Inc. in Atlanta, Georgia

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Immediate need for a talented Senior Security Engineer. This is a 12+ Months Contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Atlanta
, GA. Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Job ID:24-44397
Pay Range: $60.99/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct Static Application Security Test (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Test (DAST) and Source Code Analysis (SCA) using VeraCode
• Correlate findings from tools such as VeraCode Source Code Agent to identify presence of vulnerable methods in code
• Research open-source community contributors and NIST NVD to understand residual risk and recommend course of action
• Determine how frequently and quickly fixes should be delivered for open-source findings
• Review SCA reports to track new and changes to SCA components in the environment
• Experience working with tools such as Sonatype nexus firewall and lifecycle to track and block risk 3rd- party components
• Work within the DevSecOps model to secure Containers, withing ROSA, Tekton and OpenShift pipelines
• Design, develop, plan, implement, and maintain Cloud DevSecOps processes across multiple technical organizations, instantiating security testing for internally developed systems, applications, and infrastructure against business requirements.
• Guide development teams in integrating new services and applications into the CI/CD pipeline, troubleshoot installations and build automated deployments of products into a high-security architecture.
• 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, Wiz or equivalent)
• Perform Baseline Image validation of new container template images.
• Evaluate scans results for container runtime environments to reduce security risk
• Troubleshoot any connectivity or operational issues for clusters being evaluated in the Prisma tool.
• Apply software development skills (e.g., Java, C#.NET, JavaScript) to recommend and apply 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
• Integrating threat modeling practices into the application testing lifecycle
• 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
• Drive awareness and knowledge of security in the developer community
• Continually improve proficiency in application and API exploitation, tools, techniques, and countermeasures

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• 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
• Hands-on experience working with Cloud and/or DevSecOps related technologies
• Excellent understanding of DevSecOps techniques and processes, guide integration of various tools in DevSecOps processes (GitLab/GitHub, SonarQube, Jenkins, Selenium, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, and containerization).
• Should be well versed with the AWS well architected framework or TOGAF and able to apply those principles while designing a solution
• Experience building and supporting applications in the Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience engineering software within an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure
• Troubleshoot and resolve problems with existing cloud controls
• 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 with static analysis tools and flaw triage such as Client Fortify, IBM Rational, Veracode or Coverity, FindBugs, FindSecurityBugs, Brakeman and Open Source scanning tools such as Sonatype CLM
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong sense of urgency and ownership
• 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 AWS practitioner, cloud security certification for AWS, and CISSP

Our client is a leading Airlines organization and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.

Pyramid Consulting, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, colour, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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