Senior Application Security Engineer

• Hybrid environment and flexible working
• Long-term opportunity on transformation project

About Our Client

Our client is a leading global technology consulting and services organisation that partners with enterprises to deliver large-scale digital transformation, cloud, cybersecurity, and technology modernisation initiatives. They offer a collaborative and innovative environment, providing opportunities to work on complex enterprise programs leveraging modern technologies and best-practice delivery frameworks.

Job Description

Key responsibilities:

• Lead the implementation and onboarding of Secure Code Scanning platforms such as Snyk, Fortify, Checkmarx, or Veracode across the software development lifecycle.
• Design and implement integrations with GitHub, GitLab and CI/CD pipelines to enable automated security scanning and policy enforcement.
• Collaborate with development, DevOps, and security teams to define scanning strategies, remediation workflows, quality gates, and secure coding controls.
• Proactively identify implementation challenges, integration dependencies, developer adoption issues, and performance impacts, and provide practical solutions to mitigate risks.
• Establish vulnerability management processes, including triage, risk prioritisation, exception handling, SLA definition, and remediation tracking.
• Develop technical standards, deployment procedures, operational runbooks, and governance processes to support long-term platform adoption.
• Provide hands-on support during implementation, testing, rollout, and post-go-live stabilization activities while mentoring development teams on secure coding practices.

The Successful Applicant

A successful Senior Application Security Engineer should have:

• Proven experience as an Application Security Engineer or DevSecOps Engineer in enterprise environments.
• Hands-on experience implementing SAST tools such as Snyk, Fortify, Checkmarx, or Veracode.
• Strong knowledge of secure coding practices, application security, and SSDLC principles.
• Experience integrating security tooling into GitHub, GitLab, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Expertise in vulnerability management, remediation workflows, and risk prioritisation.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to work across Security, Development, and DevOps teams.
• Excellent problem-solving abilities and a practical, delivery-focused approach.
• Experience driving adoption of security controls and DevSecOps practices across development teams.
• Demonstrate experience implementating similar Application Security and Secure Coding solutions in larger enterprise environments
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with technical teams.

What's on Offer

• Transformation project
• Hybrid environment and flexible working
• Long-term opportunity with project
• Ability to upskill and work with security and AI