Application Security Engineer (HHN593)

Application Security Engineer (HHN593)

**Application Security Engineer**

The Application Security Engineer is a position of technical expertise, influence, and leadership in the security technology realm.
The Application Security Engineer is highly passionate and is a deeply technical security.
Expert to help the University and its employees develop sound security practices.
WGU The Application Security Engineer will deliver security solutions, risk and control guidance, lead proof-of-concept projects, and conduct workshops.
Experience determining, verifying and documenting security flaws in accordance with industry best practices.
**Essential Functions and Responsibilities**:

- Work with developers as part of the Software Development Life Cycle




- Cultivate secure coding standards based on industry accepted frameworks
- Prioritize and track assigned security issues
- Enforce secure development standards and requirements
- Familiarity with compliance & security standards across the enterprise IT landscape deep understanding of enterprise risk management methods and techniques to drive successful outcomes in a complex environment
- Harden networks, containers, VMs, and other cloud infrastructure to reduce risk of cloud security misconfigurations
- Write and implement policy-as-code to automate the enforcement of compliance and security configuration management
- Working knowledge of cloud computing technologies
- Familiarity with archive, backup/recovery and business continuity processes in distributed operations
- Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges
- Assist with penetration testing, incident handling/digital forensics, continuous monitoring, intrusion detection/prevention, vulnerability management
- Functions equally well in abstract, conceptual,



and architectural work as in granular technical implementation and configuration work
- Participate in tactical projects as they arise to clarify and respond to identified security risks across different technical domains
- Assist in the development of cloud security policies and procedures
- Build and maintain relationships across the University to promote cloud security initiatives.
- Identify gaps in the University's security model, suggest solutions including tools and processes
- Engage with security architects to capture design requirements for cloud architectures and implementation strategies
- Create new processes, identify new threats and mitigation strategies

**Knowledge, Skill and Abilities**:

- Experience with security industry standards and best practices




- Proven experience with interpretation and implementation of those standards in a corporate environment
- High integrity.
Will be working with sensitive data
- Operate Information security tools and processes
- Execute established security practices with consistency and discipline
- Hands on experience integrating security into the various stages of a CI/CD pipeline.
- Solid understanding of core AWS services including compute (EC2, ECS, Lambda), network (VPC, Subnets, Security Groups), storage (S3, EFS, EBS), database (RDS), and identity (IAM).
- Complete understanding of cloud security engineering principles as applied in the support of, and integration with, key business and strategic priorities
- Experience maintaining cloud resources using infrastructure-as-code (CloudFormation, CDK, etc.)
- Scripting language experience (Bash, Python, etc.)




with strong working knowledge of automation
- Strong analytical and technical skills
- Good written and oral communication skills
- Knowledge of threat modeling and risk assessment strategies
- Highly technical and analytical, possessing 7 or more years of IT implementation experience

**Minimum Qualifications**:
**Preferred Qualifications**:

- CISSP Certification
- Masters Degree in IT security, compliance or risk management
- ISACA Certifications
- Working knowledge of intrusion detection methodologies and techniques for detecting intrusions via intrusion detection technologies
- Solid understanding of the AWS well architected framework with working experience on implementing the security pillar of the framework
- CCSP, CCSK, CISSP and AWS certifications
- Working knowledge of federated single sign on (SSO)



solutions.
- Experience with designing and implementing native AWS security tools like Guard Duty, Security Hub, IAM access analyzer, Macie, Inspector, and WAF
- Ability to assist in establishing a DevSecOps process using available AWS services
- Practical working experience establishing AWS IAM user groups, roles, and policies

Disclaimer: This Job Description has been designed to indicate the general nature, essential duties, and responsibilities of work performed by employees within this classification.
It does not contain a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications that are required of the employee to do this job.
Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or with

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