Head of Application Security, Cyber, Apps, Perm

4 weeks ago


West Midlands Region, United Kingdom Akkodis Full time

**Job Title: Head of Application Security**
**Location: West Midlands/Remote**
**Duration: Permanent

**Salary**: £75,000- £90,000**

**Primary Responsibilities**:

- Defining developer secure coding practices and ensuring that developers and QA/test personnel are trained with the appropriate level of security knowledge to perform their daily activities;
- Improving and maintaining secure development standards;
- Managing penetration testing services, including delivering a continuous penetration testing programme and driving remediation;
- Supporting supplier security activities to ensure third-party software development meets company security standards;
- Integrating threat modelling practices into the product/software development lifecycle;

**Professional Experience**:

- Familiarity with waterfall and agile development processes, and experience of integrating secure development practices into both methods.
- Ability to work at senior level and ensure that tactical activity supports the strategic picture.
- Commercial experience from product selection through to vendor relationship and service management.
- Agility of thought and comfort with complexity, together with the patience and resilience to overcome change inertia.
- The will to succeed in support of the business' goals and to align potentially competing agendas to effectively manage cyber security risk within the business risk appetite.
- Familiarity with a variety of development and testing tools (SAST and DAST), for example; Visual Studio, Tenable/Nessus, Git, Azure DevOps Pipelines, SonarQube.
- Ability to explain vulnerabilities and weaknesses described in commonly used frameworks, for example; OWASP Top 10, WASC TCv2, and/or CWE 25 to any audience, and to discuss effective defensive techniques.
- Familiarity with industry standards and regulations e.g.; PCI, ISO27001, NIST, etc
- Preferred or willing to work towards recognised security related qualifications (e.g. CISM, CISSP).

If this sounds interesting, please don't hesitate to get in touch.

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



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