Application Security Engineer

We’re looking for a Security Engineer with secured Application Development background to join our Global Cybersecurity Services – Application Security Rapid Lab team. In this role, you are expected to work directly with the Application Security core team to build and support the remediation of security vulnerabilities. The team is focusing on building the secured modules to help the business units to avoid any secrets on the source code repositories.

Have the skills and knowledge for the job? Learn more about the opening below

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with Application Security team to drive the initiative of secrets remediation program
• Part of Cyber Assessment team, to build internal reusable libraries as a standalone component in remediation of secrets/credentials in the source code
• Evaluating and attempting to understand organization security requirements and secrets/credentials to be moved to vaults specifically to AKV and Hashicorp
• Understanding secure design to ensure newly built codes are secured and pass through the Application security gates
• Independently design and develop utilities to resolve the larger problem of hard coded secrets in the configuration files to be migrated to the vaults
• Participate in project related meetings: information gathering, solution design, project checkpoints
• Keeping automation in mind while developing the solution for remediation to self-heal solutions
• Propose, examine and assist in the solution design to adequately resolve or remediate the hard coded secrets from source code while keeping away any impact to the system
• Evaluate business needs while solving the problem, design thinking and effective communication with stakeholders
• Apply creative problem solving throughout the secure software development life cycle to continuously improve the effectiveness of the end‑to‑end process.
• Ideate. Test. Learn. Iterate. Bring a flexible, adaptive mindset, comfortable with ambiguity in a rapidly changing technology environment.
• Be a continuous learner, not only for your own career, but from teams’ successes and failures.
• Embrace open‑source communities, both internally and externally, sharing your knowledge across your team and peers.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline
• Experience: Minimum 5 years of experience in performing hands‑on application development preferably using Java/Python/C# programming languages
• Software design and development experience, especially in building backend systems
• Hybrid Work Arrangement: Amenability and readiness to work onsite and from home anytime (dependent on business need AND/OR current external environment/situation)
• Amenable to work UP Ayala Technohub (Quezon City)
• Amenable to work on a hybrid set‑up (3x a week onsite)
• Amenable to work on a fixed late mid shift / night shift schedule

Minimum Skills To Hire / Must Haves

• Clear understanding of software secrets management, credentials and secret life cycle in application development
• Adequate knowledge on different types of Secrets used in Application, specific hands‑on experience in dealing with API credentials are always plus point
• Demonstrated technical knowledge of secure SDLC, understanding on GitHub, SCA, SAST, DAST and Secrets scans are must
• Possess good holding on the SDLC tools like IDE, GitHub, Snyk, GitGuardian and the best programming practices
• Extensive technical knowledge of security industry best practices and procedures.
• Demonstrated experience with security assessment frameworks and procedures, including following industry best practice methodologies to ensure business components are ready
• Experience in developing security tools, using scripts and utilities to automate assessment and analysis activitiesExcellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to articulate the remediation steps back to the customers
• Exceptional customer service, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to communicate and work closely with executives, peers and employees at all levels.
• Strong time management and organizational discipline
• High degree of integrity, competence, adaptability, resilience and initiative.