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.

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

The Culture and Benefits

  • A modern TechStack and great opportunity to work within a dynamic team
  • A highly flexible culture – our way of working lets people work across home and our offices
  • A strong commitment to your learning and development - fortnightly dedicated L&D afternoons
  • Reward & Recognition programs
  • A strong 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

Job Summary

As our Application Security Specialist, you will help ensure 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 be working in a fun and exciting security team that strives to implement best security practices for development, testing and agile project delivery.

Key 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, analyse and prioritise 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 modelling 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 minimise 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

  • 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 modelling applications.
  • Strong understanding of secure software development fundamentals.
  • The ability to identify security issues through secure code review.
  • Commercial experience 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

  • 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 application
  • Security / Application Security Certifications (CISSP, CEH, OSCP, CREST)

Next Steps

We are happy to invite you to apply. If you think this may be your next opportunity 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 a little more about working with us.

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