Application Security Specialist

3 weeks ago


Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Protecht Group Full time
About Protecht Group

We are a fast-growing Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) SaaS business, providing world-class enterprise risk management, compliance, training, and advisory services to over 350 customers across various industry sectors through our offices across APAC, USA & Europe.

Our cloud-based SaaS platform – Protecht.ERM is a comprehensive, flexible, and dynamic risk management solution that sets us apart.

The Culture and Benefits

At Protecht Group, you will be part of a high-performing technology team, working in a positive and friendly culture that values learning and development. We empower our people through leadership, training, knowledge-sharing, and mentorship. Some of the benefits of working with us include:

  • A modern TechStack and the opportunity to work in a dynamic team
  • A highly flexible culture that allows for work-life balance
  • A strong commitment to your learning and development, with fortnightly dedicated L&D afternoons
  • Reward & Recognition programs
  • A focus on work-life balance, with access to Birthday leave, bonus days, paid parental leave, and long service leave
  • Monthly social events
  • Competitive remuneration and Annual Performance Bonus
  • Novated car leasing
  • Wellbeing support
  • Generous Employee Referral program
About the Role

As our Application Security Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring that every step of the software development lifecycle follows security best practices in supporting and developing our SaaS product – Protecht.ERM (Enterprise Risk Management). Located in our central Sydney office and reporting to the Head of Cyber Security, you will work in a fun and exciting security team that strives to implement best security practices for development, testing, and agile project delivery.

Key Responsibilities

The successful candidate will have the following responsibilities:

  • Review application code for security vulnerabilities and best practices
  • Help Protecht developers deliver high-quality and security-hardened code based on OWASP and Protecht secure coding standards
  • Assess application vulnerabilities and provide clear paths for developers to mitigate the vulnerabilities
  • Create and maintain a single view of application security tasks from different sources, analyze and prioritize the tasks with different dev teams
  • Drive and upskill Protecht developers to maintain a security-aware culture
  • Own and enforce secure development policies amongst the Protecht development teams
  • Create and maintain documentation to support the development of secure software
  • Run automated security testing tools (SAST, DAST) to detect vulnerabilities
  • Build and integrate automated security tools into CI/CD pipelines for continuous security testing
  • Work closely with Protecht developers and platform teams to integrate security throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
  • Ensure security requirements are incorporated into the design phase and architecture reviews
  • Perform threat modeling with the Protecht development teams to identify and prioritize potential security risks during the design phase
  • Monitor the evolving threat landscape and proactively conduct security research to identify common application threats and attack vectors to then develop mitigating solutions and minimize risk
  • Collaborate with external stakeholders for the scoping, managing, validating, and remediating of vulnerability assessment and penetration tests
  • Participate in audits and reviews to validate the security of applications (ISO27001, SOC2, IRAP)
  • Ensure applications comply with relevant security standards and regulations (e.g., OWASP, GDPR)
  • Collaborate in an agile environment with cyber security, development, and platform teams
  • Contribute to various security projects and assist the Head of Cyber Security in delivering the cyber security roadmap
Requirements

The ideal candidate will have:

  • Passion for application security
  • Relevant tertiary qualification such as a degree in computer science or information systems
  • 2 or more years proven commercial experience in security, preferably in application security or software engineering role
  • Experience with architecture and security reviews, threat modeling applications
  • Strong understanding of secure software development fundamentals
  • The ability to identify security issues through secure code review
  • Commercial experience with Java and/or React development
  • Experience with REST APIs
  • Experience with common information security frameworks, standards, principles, and processes (OWASP, SANS, NIST, ISO, etc.)
  • Understanding and experience with common security libraries, security controls, and common security vulnerabilities
Desirable Attributes

The following attributes are desirable:

  • Experience with cloud infrastructure environments (AWS) and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Understanding of identity providers (SAML, SCIM)
  • Experience with SAST/DAST tools
  • Experience using JIRA and Confluence
  • Understanding of risk management
  • Exposure to penetration testing for web applications
  • Security/Application Security Certifications (CISSP, CEH, OSCP, CREST)
Next Steps

We invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity to join our team. If you think this may be your next challenge and you want to be part of a Great Place to WorkTM – Certified organization, Apply online today

Visit our website https://www.protechtgroup.com/ to find out more about working with us.



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