Application Security Engineer

The Application Security (AppSec) team focuses on mitigating risk within our engineering environment by implementing strategic security measures in areas of high risk or significant leverage. We engage in risk identification, the development and implementation of security strategies, and the execution of critical security projects throughout Included Health’s applications. 
We are looking for a thoughtful and unusually responsible Application Security Engineer, someone who’s self-motivated, self-aware and self-disciplined, to help advance our mission. They will work closely with our infrastructure and platform teams to help improve our security posture in these areas to meet dynamic business demands.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Security Integration: Embed security practices into the software development lifecycle, ensuring that security is considered at every stage, and implemented as a self-service capability wherever feasible (shift-left).
• Automation: Develop and maintain automated security tools and scripts to identify and remediate security vulnerabilities in code and infrastructure.
• Code Review and Analysis: Perform security code reviews and static/dynamic analysis to identify vulnerabilities in applications written in JavaScript, Go, and Python.
• Collaboration: Work closely with Engineering and IT teams to promote security best practices and provide guidance on secure coding standards.
• Incident Response: Assist in the investigation and response to security incidents and vulnerabilities, providing technical expertise and recommendations.
• Continuous Improvement: Stay up-to-date with the latest security trends, vulnerabilities, and tools, and continuously improve the security posture of our applications and infrastructure.
• Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive security documentation, including policies, procedures, and guidelines.
• Consultant: Act as a security consultant on secure software development practices, and provide hands-on training and coaching for Developers

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in a related discipline or equivalent professional experience.
• At least 4 years acting in an Application Security Engineer role with progressive responsibility.
• Strong experience integrating and managing DAST, SAST or IAST, and SCA tools and how these feed into Vulnerability Management initiatives.
• Understanding of how scanning tools, penetration tests, and post-deploy scanning tools work together in the application security lifecycle.
• Deep, hands-on experience implementing AppSec tools into a DevOps pipeline.
• Solid understanding of application security issues, risks, and mitigation strategies.
• Experience developing and refining Secure SDLC documents and processes.
• Experience building and leading Information Security training focused on developers and based on OWASP principles.
• Experience assessing and securing open-sourced software components.
• Strong interpersonal verbal and written communications skills with proven experience of collaboration across different engineering areas.
• Deep knowledge of containers and …