Application Security Engineer

Job Title: Application Security Engineer

Location: New York, NY

Duration: 7 Months

Job Type: Contract

Work Type: Onsite

Pay rate- $70-$70.00 Per HR on W2

Job Description :

• A Security Engineer focuses on defensive security and the support of vulnerability discovery across assets/services.
• They play a hands-on role in the proactive identification and remediation of security issues at the client.
• Security Engineers use a variety of tools to analyse and review services to ensure they are built securely.
• This involves secure source code review, automated security testing of APIs and endpoints, and solid understanding of application related vulnerabilities and how to identify and fix them.

Typical Day in the Role

• Teams focus on security testing operations.
• Automating security operations.
• Build out rules, scale out automation.
• Deep dive into research

Candidate Requirements:

Required Skills:

• Application security fundamentals.
• Web application security testing.
• Application development experience.
• Hands-on experience with SAST and DAST technologies.
• Vulnerability identification and management in code and running endpoints.
• Customer service and partner with security teams.
• Detail-oriented.
• Verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills, ability to work independently, and maintain professionalism under pressure.
• Ability to read and write code 1-2yrs

Additional Skills:

• Preferred development languages: Python and Java.
• A Computer Science or equivalent technical degree and 3-5 years of relevant experience is required.

Top 3 must-have hard skills:

• Ability to read and write code 1-2yrs
• Basic security fundamental understanding
• Vulnerability identification and management in code and running endpoints.

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.