Application Security Software Engineer, Analyst - Cybersecurity

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Blackstone Technology Innovations Profile: 
Blackstone Technology and Innovations (BXTI) is the technology team at the core of each of Blackstone’s businesses and new growth initiatives. Serving both internal and external clients, we work to build the next generation of systems that manage risk, create efficiency, and improve transparency within the firm and across our broad community of investors and portfolio companies. 

BXTI is nimble and entrepreneurial – our open, iterative design processes and rapid pace of development mean that everyone on the team has the opportunity to make an impact from day one. We are problem solvers who can take projects from idea to implementation. We believe in active mentoring and developing excellence. We collaborate to find the best answers for our customers and for Blackstone. We are critical to the firm maintaining its competitive edge. 

Your Role: 
Blackstone’s Application & Cloud Security (AppSec) Team is responsible for empowering 500+ Developers to set and meet security goals by identifying and managing software risks while balancing security with agility. You will join an ambitious and talented team of software and security engineers that are responsible for evolving how Blackstone “does security” as it continues to move to modern and next-generation architectures. 

The AppSec team partners with Developers to build secure services, and with Engineers to build security into foundational platforms that developers build on. Together, we also empower members of the broader Cybersecurity team to take on their responsibilities within these new patterns. 

Responsibilities: 

• Build and own a distributed systems architecture used to scan code (SAST) and applications (DAST). 

• Understand and work towards a balanced approach for enabling Developers to reliably identify and fix security flaws while they actively Develop. 

• Communicate software vulnerabilities and mitigation options to stakeholders that balance 

• Partner with Developer teams to meet security objectives through training and integrating vendors.

• Establish policies & standards to guide Developers to meet security requirements. 

Qualifications: 

• Strong experience in at least one software language, ideally Python but others are acceptable. 

• Experience implementing Application Security tooling such as static analysis (SAST), dynamic analysis (DAST), software component analysis tools (SCA), and/or web application firewalls (WAF). 

• Ability to perform secure code reviews and white box application penetration tests to find complicated business logic flaws.  

• Knowledge of software, cloud infrastructure, and containerized systems hardening standards. 

• Experience with CI/CD tools and concepts to embed security into DevOps pipelines (DevSecOps). 

• Experience with AWS and essentials services such as IAM, CloudTrail, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, Config and GuardDuty. 

• Has managed their work using aAgile methodologies including sprints and story estimation. 

• Has a passion for excellence and growth – challenges the current state with opinions grounded in principles and experience, not just best practices. 

• Able to take-on challenges and propose solutions with minimal guidance. 

• Knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP, RESTful APIs and experience securing service-oriented, asynchronous, and distributed application architectures 

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