Application Security Engineer - Chicago, United States - TEKsystems

Description

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Description:

The Senior IT Application Security Engineer is considered an application security subject matter expert and is adept at blending industry best practices in application development and secured coding practices. The position assists solution development teams in designing, creating, and implementing secure solutions using formal project, program, portfolio management, Methodology, and/or resource management standards, software, processes, templates and tools that align IT Security to corporate goals. The team member in this position will communicate, recommend and define training and support standards, support software processes and tools within the ITS department and the business community, and serve as technical lead of projects or large sub-projects.

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What You'll be Doing:

Defines, communicates, and monitors compliance of SDLC security checks and balances that are to be followed at each step of development processes.

Defines, communicates, coordinates delivery of, and at times presents secured coding training content to development team members and leadership.

Develops and provides presentations as necessary for ITS team members, project and program leaders, ITS leadership, business customers and leadership and Senior /Executive-level leadership on application security topics.

Performs regular assessments of applications in conjunction with the Risk Evaluation group.

Performs and lead others in secured coding reviews of sensitive applications/solutions.

Ensures third party products properly address security (privacy requirements etc.).

Defines, communicates, and monitors compliance of SDLC security checks and balances that are to be followed at each step of development processes

Defines, communicates, coordinates delivery of, and at times presents secured coding training content to development team members and leadership

Develops and provides presentations as necessary for ITS team members, project and program leaders, ITS leadership, business customers and leadership and Senior /Executive-level leadership on application security topics

Performs regular assessments of applications in conjunction with the Risk Evaluation group

Performs and lead others in secured coding reviews of sensitive applications/solutions

Ensures third party products properly address security (privacy requirements etc.)

Ensures latest security controls exist on legacy applications.

Manages outsourced development activities focused on ensuring application security principles are applied appropriately.

Provide information to ITS, business, project, program and portfolio leaders to enable sound business decisions.

Provides application security-focused technical consulting on business projects or system issues.

Assists with the development of key business relationships and integration activities with other ITS departments, business areas, and/or vendors to ensure successful implementation and support of project, program and portfolio efforts.

Utilizes knowledge of industry best practices for project and portfolio management, budget, Methodology and/or IT resource management to recommend and implement necessary changes.

Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish objectives.

Anticipates and creates/recommends technical options to support IT operations.

Leads and directs the work of others with in the team and across IT organization on application security focused objectives.

Ensures quality assurance standards and strategies are applied.

Consults with, mentors and coaches ITS and business team members and leadership, project and program managers and vendors on secured coding principles and guidelines, Methodology, concepts, processes and tools.

Provides project management, portfolio, budget, Methodology, and/or IT resource management standards communication to ITS team members, business customers, senior leadership and/or vendors.

Develops and provides presentations as necessary for ITS team members, project and program leaders, ITS leadership, business customers and leadership and Senior /Executive-level leadership.

This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position. May perform other duties as assigned or required.

Skills:

Application security, SDLC, microsoft visual studio, Veracode

Top Skills Details:

Application security, SDLC, microsoft visual studio, Veracode

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

What You Bring with You (Qualifications):

Bachelors degree in Information Technology Security, Information Assurance or related discipline or equivalent work experience and technical training is required.

Agile/Scrum, Lean and/or Six Sigma certification preferred.

CISSP certification preferred.

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certification preferred.

7+ years of experience in application development, secured coding, solution design, enterprise architecture, ITS Solution Development, and/or ITS Security.

Extensive experience with and knowledge of Microsoft development technology suite, Microsoft AzureDevOps, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Office Suite applications.

Has extensive experience working and coordinating multiple simultaneous projects and programs, including those that are outsourced (vendors, consultants and/or contractors) and cross-functional.

Previous technical lead experience in a large organization.

Experience with structured design, development, and implementation of new and established computing architectures.

Strong technical knowledge, with hands-on experience managing systems development in new and established computing architectures and environments.

Knowledge of relevant technology, tools, databases, and development techniques is critical.

Excellent project management, organization, and team collaboration skills.

Ability to anticipate risks and devise solutions in the moment.

Comfortable with ambiguity, frequent change, or unpredictability.

Curiosity to learn and understand business objectives, and how IT strategy enables them In depth understanding of project management concepts.

Possesses good follow-through, administrative and organizational skills, is able to multi-task and has strong interpretation skills for the review of reports and data from all areas of the company.

Possesses strong customer service orientation.

Possesses ability to define methods to measure processes and standards, an

Experience Level:

Expert Level

About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.