Cybersecurity Engineer ( Application Security )
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Job Description:
What You’ll Do
Engineers solutions in alignment with the Cybersecurity engineering road map, and maintains processes for the delivery of highly-complex secure systems, cyber applications, technical projects and regulatory and risk requirements. Facilitates process engineering, risk remediation, and mitigation of operational risk in a high velocity culture by collaborating to introduce technology, requirements, deliverables, gaps and systems design. Contributes to analyzing cyber technologies, metrics models, and performance indicators. Identifies robust solutions and build resilient next-generation systems to solve business challenges and enhance the control environment
Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management
How You’ll Do It
Analyzes, designs and develops security solutions with Cybersecurity architects to ensure it is
Serves as the subject matter expert for supported security technologies, and act as subject
Validates current and future state architectural models to assess impact across assigned Cybersecurity technology systems. Oversees security requirements and technical specifications
Provides direction to infrastructure, operations, data and application developments groups throughout transitioning phase, implementation in production and beyond.
Manages relationships with security partners and vendors. Builds and maintains effective
Maintains knowledge of engineering next-gen designs, security trends, threats and attack techniques
Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of Competent on the Dreyfus Cyber engineering scale.
Minimum Qualifications
At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:
Bachelors – Computer Science, Engineering, Informatics, Information Security, Information Technology or related
3+ years – Information Security, Application Security, Security Engineering or related
Physical and Cognitive Requirements
The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable a qualified individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position as required by federal, state, and local laws:
Primarily remain in a stationary position.
Primarily performed indoors in an office setting
Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer, telephone, printer, and calculator.
Ability to communicate verbally.; Ability to communicate in written form.
Travel up to 10% of the time.
Bonus Points If You Have
Working experience with Secrets Scanning, SAST, IAST, DAST and SCA tools
Engineering experience using CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes and Docker
Engineering experience with languages such as Python, Typescript, Javascript
Working knowledge of Java, Node, NPM, Maeven, PyPi and other common application development languages and frameworks
Engineering experience with APIs and Integration engineering
Experience creating robust automation scripts and engines
Experience working in an agile environment
Experience with common vulnerability frameworks such as CVSS 2.0+, CWE, OWASP
Common knowledge of regulatory frameworks such as PCI and FDIC
External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.
Discover will not sponsor or transfer employment work visas for this position. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in
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