Application Security Engineer

Zelis Healthcare - Morristown, NJ

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Morristown, NJ

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Zelis is seeking an Application Security Engineer to join our team, where you will play a crucial role in ensuring the security of our corporate applications. This position requires collaboration with various corporate application development teams to identify application assets, data flows, potential threats, and necessary cybersecurity controls. You will also work closely with Application Security Testers to assess the effectiveness of the identified cybersecurity measures. In this role, you will partner with corporate stakeholders to understand and implement regulatory, industry, and organizational security requirements. You will provide security requirements with acceptance criteria to application development teams, utilizing both Agile and Waterfall methodologies. Conducting threat modeling exercises will be a key responsibility, allowing you to identify potential security vulnerabilities within our corporate applications. You will analyze application components, data flows, and external dependencies to proactively mitigate threats. Your expertise will be essential in reviewing the architecture of software applications to ensure that security is integrated at every layer, including network, infrastructure, and application levels. You will implement security controls and best practices to address identified risks and vulnerabilities, which may include encryption, authentication, access controls, input validation, and other security mechanisms. Additionally, you will perform security code reviews to identify and remediate vulnerabilities in application code, focusing on common security flaws such as injection attacks, cross-site scripting (XSS), and insecure configurations. As a mentor, you will provide guidance and training to development teams on secure coding practices, security principles, and relevant security tools and technologies. You will also evaluate and implement security tools and automation solutions to enhance the security posture of applications and streamline security processes.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with corporate stakeholders to understand regulatory, industry, and organizational security requirements
• Provide security requirements with acceptance criteria to application development teams using the Agile and Waterfall methodologies
• Conduct threat modeling exercises to identify potential security vulnerabilities in corporate applications
• Analyze application's components, data flows, and external dependencies to anticipate and mitigate threats
• Review the architecture of software applications to ensure that security is integrated at every layer, including network, infrastructure, and application levels
• Implement security controls and best practices to address identified risks and vulnerabilities, including encryption, authentication, access controls, input validation, and other security mechanisms
• Perform security code reviews to identify and remediate security vulnerabilities in application code
• Provide guidance and training to development teams on secure coding practices, security principles, and relevant security tools and technologies
• Evaluate and implement security tools and automation solutions to enhance the security posture of applications and streamline security processes

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Cyber Security or related degree
• 8+ years of experience in Cyber Security
• 2+ years of experience in Agile and writing user stories
• 2+ years of experience in Application Security and Threat Modeling, as well as application development or application secure code review
• Understanding of API and Web security vulnerabilities
• 2+ years of experience using Octave or Stride
• Experience working within a DevSecOps environment

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in security coding, source code management, and/or build and deployment technologies
• Experience with web application firewalls
• Familiarity with OWASP Top 10 API, Web, and Mobile Application Security Risks
• Familiarity with MITRE CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses
• CDP, CISSP, E|CDE or other relevant certifications
• Familiarity with regulatory controls and industry best practices such as HIPAA, PCI, CIS, HiTrust, ISO 27001, NIST, etc.)