Application Security Engineer (Cyber) - Financial Services - SGI

Application Security Engineer (Cyber) - Financial Services
Contract - Inside I35
London - Hybrid

Who we’re looking for
Our clients Cyber Security team is looking for a Cybersecurity engineer with expertise in Application Security domain, who will be responsible to define consistent Secure Software Development Lifecycle practices for all technology projects throughout the planning and delivery cycles that assure application security vulnerabilities are mitigated to tolerable levels.

The successful candidate will have very strong application security, web application development experience and team leadership skills to join a growing Information Security team and assist with the operation of the AppSec function.  

What you’ll do
In this position, you are a passionate and talented application security engineer with very deep understanding of OWASP, CWE 25, Data Protection, Access management, software vulnerabilities, best practices design and threat modelling skills, who can work in a dynamic environment. You must be dedicated to able to work with developers in producing secure code in short time frames and be willing to go beyond the standard routine.
Your primary responsibilities includes:

• Work as part of a team of software and security engineers to design/maintain and build best-in-class product security tools and services.
• Technical point of contact for product teams as it relates to automation, CI/CD, and Product Application Security Operations
• Using approved AI models and cyber harnesses to assess application code for business logic weaknesses, misconfiguration and vulnerabilities.
• Build tools and automation scripts that enable developers to easily consume security services delivered by Security Engineering and Automation team
• Responsible for security product QA and Testing
• Build strong relationships with product development teams
• Run software composition analysis (SCA) tools
• To understand and explain penetration testing findings to the software engineering teams helping them to triage the findings and explaining how to mitigate the risks
• To articulate business risk when assessing software vulnerabilities
• Continuously improve the operations of SAST, DAST and IaC security tools
• Continuously improve the operations of Web Application Firewalls (WAF) or IDS
• Continuously improve the coverage of security tooling in Cloud environments e.g. Microsoft Azure & Amazon AWS

• Computer Science / Cyber Security Degree
• Application Development background
• Azure DevOps experience
• Prior experience in using AI models and cyber harnesses to support security evaluation of  application and software code.
• GitHub, Copilot, Codex, OWASP Top 10 for Agentic AI, AI skills development and security triage.
• Ability to code in at least one programming language e.g.  Python/JavaScript/CSharp/Powershell
• Prior experience working in a large organisation or Financial Services is an advantage
• Excellent analytical skills with attention to details
• CISSP/CSSLP/CEH/OSCP or similar certification
• Presentation skills - ability to present complex solutions to a less technical audience
• Team-player interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with different people in a variety of roles
• Passionate about developing a career in Information Security
• Excellent command of the English language, both written and spoken

• Passionate about mastering and innovating best practice in business analysis
• Inspiring and collaborative leader, model of agile leadership approach
• Friendly, approachable, enjoys working with people from a variety of backgrounds
• Capable of remaining positive when under pressure
• Continuous improvement mind-set, challenges the status quo and seeks self improvement
• Problem solver, comfortable taking the initiative in challenging and ambiguous circumstances