
Principal Application Security Architect
- Hyderabad, Telangana
- Temporary
- Full-time
- Responsible for driving software security and code security practices that meets Providence software security policies to ensure Providence developed application code is secure and code vulnerabilities are remediated.
- Driving code security reviews and false positive analysis and shares best practices across the team.
- Identify scope for implementing security best practices and implement process workflows that strengthen the overall security posture.
- Participate in all aspects of agile software development, including design, implementation, and deployment to include code security aspects wherever needed in the application building phase.
- Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize security code remediation methods and stay ahead of with industry trends and emerging technologies related to secure code practices.
- Collaborate with cross-functional developer teams and engage in code scanning activities within Providence code repositories (ADO and GitHub)
- Propagate and educate developer teams about secure coding practices and assist in remediating code vulnerabilities identified in the scan.
- Identify and implement secure coding practices that aligns with industry standard frameworks such as NIST, CIS and Providence information security policies etc.
- Set-up regular meeting with stakeholders to show progress of software security scans and code vulnerabilities trends.
- Clearly communicate roadmap, backlog, and team updates across the organization.
- Bachelor's degree in related filed, to include computer science, cyber security or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 10 years of relevant post-qualification experience, with at least 3 years of proven experience in Application security testing, code scanning techniques, software security analysis and software code vulnerability remediation.
- Solid understanding of Static Software Application Security Testing (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), Software Composition Analysis (SCA) and Code Security best practices.
- Hands-on experience in DAST, SAST, SCA vulnerabilities remediation and reporting with any industry leading toolset.
- Solid understanding in CI/CD pipelines and configuration of pipelines using GitHub actions or ADO pipelines or any automated method to perform code security scans in the code build process.
- Good understanding in implementing DevOps security best practices while building solutions.
- Familiarity with cloud native solutions, application containerization and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), helm charts and YAML template configuration.
- Solid understanding of API integrations, code testing, integration testing and UAT testing methods.
- Scripting or programming understanding with Shell scripting, Power Shell, Python, KQL etc.