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Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Application Security Consultant

Security Engineering & ArchitectureConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeMadrid, SpainNo salary listedRemote

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 1 year of professional experience in application security, including application vulnerability analysis, code review, analysis of security-tool results, or supporting development teams in vulnerability remediation.
  • Practical experience with SAST, DAST, and/or SCA tools, including interpreting and validating their results.
  • Knowledge of common web-application and API vulnerabilities, referencing OWASP Top 10, and measures to prevent and remediate them.
  • Knowledge of secure development and the software development life cycle (SDLC).
  • Ability to understand and review code in at least one programming language, such as Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or C#.

Responsibilities

  • Assess the security of web applications and APIs, identify vulnerabilities, and recommend remediation.
  • Run and analyze results from static application security testing (SAST), dynamic application security testing (DAST), and software composition analysis (SCA) tools.
  • Review and validate security findings, identify false positives, and prioritize vulnerabilities according to their severity and context.
  • Collaborate with development teams on vulnerability remediation by providing secure-coding recommendations and verifying implemented fixes.
  • Participate in code reviews and define secure-development requirements and practices using OWASP Top 10 and OWASP ASVS as references.
  • Support design reviews and threat modeling to identify potential security risks early in development.
  • Help integrate and automate security controls in continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, supporting DevSecOps practices.
  • Prepare technical documentation and reports, communicating risks and recommendations to relevant teams.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with solutions such as Checkmarx, Fortify, Veracode, Snyk, Burp Suite, or ZAP.
  • Knowledge of DevSecOps, integrating security controls into CI/CD pipelines, and automation through scripting.
  • Experience in threat modeling, design reviews, or security testing of web applications and APIs.
  • C1 level of English.
  • Certifications related to application security, secure development, or offensive security.

About the Company

Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Accenture advises large businesses and public agencies on strategy, builds their technology systems and runs ongoing operations. Its teams connect business planning with implementation, covering areas such as cloud migration, cybersecurity and customer experience. Consultants work with clients to redesign processes, while engineers integrate software from technology partners and maintain the resulting systems for multinational organizations. Clients pay for project work or continuing services, including application support and business processes such as finance and customer service. Accenture was founded in 1989 and has its headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Dublin, Ireland
Founded
1989

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