Head of Application Security

2 months ago

London, United Kingdom Akkodis Full time

**Job Title:Head of Application Security**

**Location: London - Hybrid**

**Salary: £95,000 - £110,000**

My client is looking for a **Head of Application Security** to join their business on a permanent basis. You will support both the Director of IT Service Delivery in the protection of the Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability of informationheld and processed by or on behalf of the business. The Head of Cyber Security will lead the delivery of local security initiatives, reporting, monitoring and incident handling whilst ensuring alignment with Group Security Policies, strategies and requirements.

**Duties and responsibilities**:

- pro-actively discovering vulnerabilities in existing/new systems
- creating PoCs that confirm its impact
- proactively working with development teams in addressing vulnerabilities, by creating pull requests with the proposed fixes (key objective is to avoid overloading engineers with security-focused changes)
- providing deep technical guidance on how to eradicate similar vulnerabilities from the code-base
- Leverage existing technology and products to embed security checks for vulnerabilities in the CI/CD pipelines
- ultimately making sure that development (and DevOps) teams write secure code by design, by default and in deployment.
- SSDL (Secure Software Development Lifecycle)
- AppSec maturity models
- AppSec activities (Dast, SAST, IAST)
- Application security reviews
- CI/CD pipeline integrations and automations
- Threat Modeling
- Security Champions/Ambassadors network
- Compliance as code
- Infrastructure as code
- Security Training
- Security architecture
- Incident Response (for Application based attacks)
- Attack Surface Reduction
- Real-time dashboards
- Stakeholder ownership of vulnerabilities and risks

**Skills and Experience**
- leadership experience
- effective communication and presentation skills
- passion for creating highly motivated teams, focused, productive, with a strong work-life balance and aligned on common OKRs (objectives and key results)
- senior stakeholder management
- ability to translate highly complex concepts into audience-specific and targeted materials (i.e. easy to understand by that audience)
- engineering experience, namely on how to effectively use technology to scale and automate processes
- passion for cyber security, diagrams and data visualisation
- being a 'Pioneer' and 'Settler', by driving innovation and also knowing how to take innovation and productize it (Pioneer and Settler as defined by Wardley Mapping)

Both Modis International Ltd and Modis Europe Ltd are Equal Opportunities Employers.

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