Vanguard

Application Security Specialist

Vanguard

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Charlotte • North Carolina • Pennsylvania • United States

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Tech Stack

Cloud

About the role

  • Play a leading role in defining the vision, strategy, and roadmap for security orchestration, ensuring it evolves to meet enterprise security needs and developer expectations.
  • Drive initiatives to achieve maximum scan coverage across repositories, proactively identifying gaps and implementing scalable solutions to close them.
  • Develop strategies to secure current and emerging technologies (cloud, containers, serverless, mobile, AI/ML, etc.).
  • Champion a frictionless developer experience by streamlining scan workflows and integrating feedback loops to continuously improve usability.
  • Partner with the broader security organization to align our security orchestration capabilities with organizational goals, ensuring seamless integration in the CI/CD pipeline.
  • Actively participate in epic/story grooming and retrospectives.
  • Contribute to code reviews, complete development stories, and help evolve the team’s technical capabilities through hands-on collaboration and coding.
  • Gather and report metrics from application security solutions and processes to provide meaningful insights into the maturity of the Application Security program.
  • Stay up to date on application security practices and standards; participate in educational opportunities; read professional publications.

Requirements

  • Undergraduate degree in a related field or equivalent combination of training and experience.
  • Experience with well-known application security tools (SAST, SCA, IAST, RASP, etc.)
  • Strong knowledge of application development, build, and deployment processes (development, IDEs, repositories, branching, pipelines, cloud, containers, serverless, etc.).
  • Strong experience with any modern programming language.
  • Familiarity with industry standards such as NIST, OWASP, and MITRE.
  • Relevant certifications in application development, security, application security, DevSecOps, or cloud are a plus.
Benefits
  • comprehensive health and wellness care
  • work-life balance
  • investment in your future
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
application securitycloud technologiescontainersserverlessAI/MLprogramming languagesSASTSCAIASTRASP
Soft Skills
leadershipstrategic planningcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingusability improvementfeedback integrationmetrics reportingcontinuous improvementteam collaboration
Certifications
application development certificationapplication security certificationDevSecOps certificationcloud certification