Job Description
Senior Application Security Engineer plus Vulnerability Operations
Location: India
Role Summary
Role Summary:
The Senior Application Security Engineer serves as a technical and operational leader within the Vulnerability Operations function. This role drives large scale adoption of application security controls, partnering closely with engineering teams and the Application Security Champion community to ensure secure design, development, and deployment across the enterprise. You will lead strategic control rollouts, guide vulnerability governance, address emerging threat classes, and provide expert escalation support for the most complex AppSec issues.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership and Program Enablement
Lead the enterprise wide operationalization of AppSec controls, ensuring scalable integration across CI/CD pipelines and diverse engineering environments.
Partner with the Application Security Champion team to embed secure development practices, coordinate training, share emerging vulnerability insights, and drive decentralized security ownership.
Own the tiered security control strategy (Tier 1 to 3), defining quarterly migration targets and ensuring cross portfolio alignment.
Advanced Vulnerability and Threat Management
Act as subject matter expert for advanced and emerging vulnerability classes (for example supply chain risks, AI and ML application threats, container and serverless misconfigurations, emerging OWASP categories).
Lead complex vulnerability triage and remediation efforts; facilitate cross team deep dive sessions to drive prioritization and timely mitigation.
Conduct proactive threat modeling and security design reviews for high risk or business critical applications.
Automation and CI/CD Security Architecture
Architect scalable CI/CD integrations for SAST, DAST, SCA, and secrets scanning using policy as code, automated gating, and risk based controls.
Implement and optimize Tier 3 merge prevention and build failure gates, ensuring engineering teams meet strict compliance requirements.
Develop reusable automation frameworks, scanning templates, and pipeline modules to accelerate secure software delivery.
Governance, Reporting and Stakeholder Engagement
Design and maintain KPIs, scorecards, and compliance dashboards using analytics platforms (Power BI, Grafana, or equivalent).
Lead risk review forums, document mitigations, publish weekly risk register updates, and deliver executive level insights on trends, gaps, and emerging threats.
Oversee quarterly migration planning, dependency tracking, and cross team alignment on AppSec program objectives.
Mentor AppSec Specialists and upskill partner engineering teams on tools, governance workflows, and emerging security techniques.
Emerging Vulnerabilities and Continuous Improvement
Stay current with modern vulnerability trends (for example supply chain risks, API threats, cloud native issues).
Evaluate tool outputs, identify false positives, and provide actionable remediation guidance.
Recommend improvements to scanning processes, workflows, and onboarding procedures.
Required Qualifications And Skills
Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related field.
7 plus years of experience in Application Security engineering, vulnerability management, or secure development.
Expertise in advanced AppSec concepts: secure design patterns, threat modeling, exploit analysis, and remediation strategy for modern architectures (microservices, APIs, cloud native).
Proven experience leading CI/CD integrated security automation (SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets scanning, infrastructure as code scanning).
Strong track record of working with engineering organizations and AppSec Champions to drive program adoption.
Demonstrated ability to interpret complex vulnerability trends, emerging threats, and zero day risk scenarios.
Excellent communication and executive presentation skills, with ability to influence senior technical leaders.
Preferred Qualifications
Hands on experience with cloud native security tooling across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Certifications: CISSP, CSSLP, OSWE, OSCP, GWAPT, or equivalent industry credentials.
Familiarity with policy and governance tools (OPA and Gatekeeper), software supply chain frameworks (SLSA, SBOM), and infrastructure as code security.
Experience designing or contributing to AppSec Champion programs or federated security enablement models.
