Sr. Application & Cloud Container Security Engineer ATL

$124,800 - $124,800/Yr

The Matlen Silver Group - Atlanta, GA

Full-time - Mid Level

Onsite - Atlanta, GA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Sr. Application & Cloud Container Security Engineer role focuses on enhancing application security through advanced technical problem-solving and the use of top-tier security tools. The position involves building a robust application security testing organization, fostering collaborative relationships with peers and management, and applying expertise in cybersecurity to identify and mitigate application vulnerabilities. The successful candidate will engage in application security assessments, code reviews, and container security, while also supporting cloud infrastructure and integrating security practices into the development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Conduct Static Application Security Test (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Test (DAST) and Source Code Analysis (SCA) using VeraCode.
• Correlate findings from tools such as VeraCode Source Code Agent to identify presence of vulnerable methods in code.
• Research open-source community contributors and NIST NVD to understand residual risk and recommend course of action.
• Determine how frequently and quickly fixes should be delivered for open-source findings.
• Review SCA reports to track new and changes to SCA components in the environment.
• Work with tools such as Sonatype nexus firewall and lifecycle to track and block risk 3rd-party components.
• Secure Containers within ROSA, Tekton and OpenShift pipelines in a DevSecOps model.
• Design, develop, plan, implement, and maintain Cloud DevSecOps processes across multiple technical organizations.
• Guide development teams in integrating new services and applications into the CI/CD pipeline.
• Provide operational support for container security tools (Palo Alto Prisma, Aqua, Wiz or equivalent).
• Perform Baseline Image validation of new container template images.
• Evaluate scans results for container runtime environments to reduce security risk.
• Troubleshoot connectivity or operational issues for clusters being evaluated in the Prisma tool.
• Apply software development skills to recommend and apply secure coding practices.
• Validate and address vulnerability/threat findings from static and dynamic analysis tools.
• Characterize threats and provide recommendations for remediation; manage remediation efforts to completion.
• Develop and present finding and remediation reports to audiences including team members from all department areas and levels of the company.
• Perform security reviews of software designs and assist developers to ensure quality and robustness of internal products.
• Conduct security assessments against web applications and APIs across a variety of technology stacks.
• Ensure adequate security requirements and privacy by design are built into all architecture/infrastructure/projects.
• Integrate threat modeling practices into the application testing lifecycle.
• Impart application security and ethical hacking subject matter expertise into team processes.
• Drive improvements in the security testing practice to include execution methodology and metrics.
• Drive awareness and knowledge of security in the developer community.
• Continually improve proficiency in application and API exploitation, tools, techniques, and countermeasures.

Requirements

• B.S. degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Assurance or related field.
• Minimum 5+ years of professional experience in application security, penetration testing, security assessment, secure software development or related field.
• Hands-on experience working with Cloud and/or DevSecOps related technologies.
• Excellent understanding of DevSecOps techniques and processes, guide integration of various tools in DevSecOps processes (GitLab/GitHub, SonarQube, Jenkins, Selenium, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, and containerization).
• Well versed with the AWS well architected framework or TOGAF and able to apply those principles while designing a solution.
• Experience building and supporting applications in the Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience engineering software within an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot and resolve problems with existing cloud controls.
• Extensive knowledge of the OWASP Top 10.
• Experience with vulnerability risk and impact assessment.
• Experience integrating security capabilities in cloud and application lifecycle management platforms especially in a DevOps model.
• Extensive knowledge with static analysis tools and flaw triage such as HP Fortify, IBM Rational, Veracode or Coverity, FindBugs, FindSecurityBugs, Brakeman and Open Source scanning tools such as Sonatype CLM.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong sense of urgency and ownership.

Nice-to-haves

• Extensive experience in application security and ethical hacking.
• Extensive experience exploiting web, mobile and application security vulnerabilities.
• Extensive experience in software development.
• Extensive experience integrating secure coding techniques with product teams.
• Professional certifications such as AWS practitioner, cloud security certification for AWS, and CISSP.

Benefits

• Competitive hourly pay rate of $60/hour
• Opportunity to work with advanced security tools and technologies
• Collaborative work environment
• Professional development opportunities