Senior Application Security Specialist
Vanguard
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Charlotte • North Carolina • Pennsylvania • United States
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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
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Hard Skills & Tools
application securitycloud technologiescontainersserverlessAI/MLSASTSCAIASTRASPprogramming languages
Soft Skills
leadershipstrategic planningcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingusability improvementfeedback integrationmetrics reportinggroomingretrospectives
Certifications
application development certificationsecurity certificationapplication security certificationDevSecOps certificationcloud certification