Senior Application Security Engineer

7 days ago


Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom Tesco Technology Full time

An exciting opportunity to join a leading company and play an influential part in their continued dedication to Application Security.

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At Tesco, the application security team's strategy is to provide security tooling that fits seamlessly into software engineering teams ways of working, helping them find and deal with security problems early within the software development process before it reaches production.

In this role you will be responsible for helping to identify appropriate toolsets that fit with the application security team's strategy, provide comprehensive guidance that allow engineering teams to effectively self-serve with our toolsets and help manage and maintain the chosen solutions.

You are an application security expert with a strong engineering background and a curiosity about working collaboratively with the engineering teams. You communicate clearly, present reasonable security trade-offs to the business, and work to build real world practical solutions that reduce our security risk.

In this role, you can expect to:

  • Help identify security toolsets that effectively uncover security issues in open source software and first party code
  • Provide domain expertise on all areas of security and privacy throughout the Software Development lifecycle
  • Work in-line with agile practices i.e. scrum
  • Be able to identify gaps in software engineering practices and recommend appropriate streamlined security solutions
  • Ability to deliver training on core application security products to both security and engineering teams
  • Write comprehensive guidance for the selected security tooling
  • Provide technical support for our products

Relevant skills:

Core Technical Skills

  • Proficient in one of the following programming languages: Python, JavaScript, Java
  • Experience of deploying security tooling into a DevOps environment
  • Deep understanding of application security (Web, API, Mobile)
  • An understanding of microservices and container orchestration

Experience

  • Solid grasp of Application Security Tooling (SCA/SAST/DAST/IaC Security)
  • Knowledge of OWASP Top 10, Mitre Top 25 and CVSS frameworks, mapping to business risk
  • Experience in implementing security into different stages of a DevOps lifecycle

Soft Skills

  • A good communicator with proven written and verbal communication skills
  • A team player who is not afraid to get stuck in and work collaboratively
  • An ability to translate technical to business risk when assessing software vulnerabilities


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