Senior Associate Cybersecurity Engineer ( AppSec )

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Job Description:

The Senior Associate Cybersecurity Engineer contributes to developing the cybersecurity engineering roadmap, and delivers/designs secure systems, cyber applications, technical projects and regulatory and risk requirements. This includes cybersecurity engineered solutions, framework, program optimization, vulnerability remediation, metrics reporting, performance analysis and mitigation of operational risk in a high velocity culture. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

Responsibilities

• Develops engineering specifications to ensure risk, compliance, and assurance efforts to conform with security, resilience, and dependability requirements at the software application, system, and network environment level

• Assists cybersecurity architects in the design and development of security solutions consistent with business goals and risk tolerance

• Validates current and future state architectural models to assess impact across assigned Cybersecurity technology systems

• Ensures compliance to audit, regulatory and legal requirements. Designs and implements solutions to align with the Cybersecurity Strategy

• Builds and maintains effective relationships with peers and internal business partners. Manages relationships with security partners and vendors. Maintains in-depth knowledge of security trends, threats and attack techniques

• Drives research innovation and continuous coverage of malicious activity in custom intelligence research tools. Maintains in-depth knowledge of security trends, threats and attack techniques

• Correlates incident data to identify specific vulnerabilities and makes recommendations that enable expeditious remediation

Minimum Qualifications

At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:

• Bachelors – Computer Science or related

• 1+ Years – Information Security, Application Security, Security Engineering or related

Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of advanced beginner on the Dreyfus engineering scale

Preferred Qualifications

Bonus Points If You Have:

• Strong knowledge of Application Security tools such as SAST, IAST, DAST, SCA, RASP

• Strong knowledge of containerized application environments

• Strong knowledge of Cloud computing concepts

• Strong knowledge of top security concepts and frameworks like OWASP, NIST, NVD etc

• Experience developing code in Python, Java, and or Node

• Knowledge of SDLC concepts

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.

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All Discover employees place our customers at the very center of our work.  To deliver on our promises to our customers, each of us contribute every day to a culture that values compliance and risk management. 

The same way we treat our employees is how we treat all applicants – with respect. Discover Financial Services is an equal opportunity employer (EEO is the law). We thrive on diversity & inclusion. You will be treated fairly throughout our recruiting process and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law in consideration for a career at Discover.

Application Deadline:

The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Jul-17-2024. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.

Compensation:

The base pay for this position generally ranges between $71,500.00 to $121,100.00. Addition