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This position requires a passion for data protection, possesses a combination of either application development and/or security experience, strong communication and organizational skills, collaborative abilities, self-motivation, innovation, efficiency and attention to detail. This position will perform a variety of application security responsibilities across Ascensus and be the primary resource for our application security program. This role serves as a trusted application security advisor to Ascensus scrum teams to drive best practices for application security, to help ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of our web and application program interfaces (API). The Application Security Engineer is deeply involved with our application scrum teams and is instrumental in helping define the strategy to meet the information security organizations high level goals, while still being embedded within the scrum team processes and serve as a subject matter expert in secure development practices. This is a critical role at Ascensus requiring strategic thinking, taking initiative, and proactive interaction at many levels. This role will receive strong support of the Head of Technology and the Information Security Leadership, to effectively execute on defined organizational goals and strategic plans.\nSection 2: Job Functions, Essential Duties and Responsibilities\nResponsible for protecting, securing, and proper handling of all confidential data held by Ascensus to ensure against unauthorized access, improper transmission, and/or unapproved disclosure of information that could result in harm to Ascensus or our clients.\nOur I-Client service philosophy and our Core Values of People Matter, Quality First and Integrity Always® should be visible in your actions on a day to day basis showing your support of our organization\nIn conjunction with security and development leadership develops a comprehensive, agile, and innovative DevSecOps approach that supports all phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), identifies and effectively manage risk.\nProvide security consultation to scrum teams, application owners, and technology teams on relevant security controls and secure SDLC process\nParticipate in sprint planning meetings and various decision-making sessions to ensure that security requirements and considerations are built into the development practices\nConduct application security analysis, including architecture review, analysis of data flows, penetration testing support, and threat modeling\nBuild and monitor compliance with application security policies, coding standards, and security controls in support of mitigating threats\nResponsible for the deployment and integration of services to support SAST, DAST and SCA functions. Assist development teams in performance of static and dynamic testing, triage findings and provide remediation guidance where necessary\nAssist with other tasks and projects as assigned\nSupervision\nN/A\nSection 3: Experience, Skills, Knowledge Requirements\nSecure Software Development\nA minimum of 4 years’ experience in Secure Software Development and/or DevSecOps (preferred)\nAbility to define software security and privacy requirements\nSolid understanding of threat modeling, risk, and mitigation from internal and external threats\nExperience with development of system security architecture diagrams and security architecture specification per security architecture standards\nExperience performing software security design reviews\nExperience running security testing tools into a CI/CD pipeline including tools such as Static and Dynamic Application Security\nTesting (SAST/DAST) and Software Composition Analysis (SCA)\nExperience with application testing tools (e.g., Burp Suite, Fiddler, Zap, Wireshark, Metasploit)\nExperience with configuration WAF, API Gateway, API Security Tools\nSolid understanding of the most common application and API security risks (OWASP Top 10, SANS/CWE Top 25)\nSolid understanding of application, database and network vulnerability testing principles\nWorking knowledge of the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL), OWASP Software Assurance Maturity Model (SAMM), or Building Security in Maturity Model (BSIMM)\nExperience with assessing secure adoption of third-party components such as open source or commercial software\n .NET/Java Experience a plus\nInformation Security\nUnderstanding of information security frameworks such as ISO27001, NIST, CSA and operating in a environment regulated against FFIEC, SEC and/or HIPAA requirements\nSolid understanding f authentication and authorization systems\nSolid understanding of cryptographic standards(e.g., encryption, hashing, key management, digital signatures, etc.)\n Ability to provide vulnerability remediation guidance and mentoring to product development software engineers\nAbility to translate security risks to business impact\nExperience running or managing vulnerability assessments using automated tools (e.g., Nessus, Qualys, etc) as well as managing penetration testing engagements.\n Understanding of privacy regulations as it relates to the handling and protection of information.\nExperience with fraud detection and analysis as it relates to custom developed applications\nDevSecOps\nExperience integrating automated testing tools into a CI/CD pipeline\nExperience in implementing Cloud security controls following owing Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) or Cloud Service Provider (CSP) best practices (Azure, AWS, etc.)\nExperience implementing and supporting security automation tools (e.g., K8 and CSP platform configuration, hardening, and monitoring).\nWe are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer\nBe aware of employment fraud. All email communications from Ascensus or its hiring managers originate from @ascensus.com or @futureplan.com email addresses. We will never ask you for payment or require you to purchase any equipment. 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