Senior Application Security Consultant

Summary

GuidePoint Security offers an inclusive set of strategic Application Security services, including Application Threat Modeling, Application Architecture Reviews, and Application Security Program (SDLC) and DevSecOps Assessments. As a Senior Application Security Consultant within Strategic Services, your primary responsibilities will be delivering these offerings to a broad range of clients in a variety of industries.

The Senior Application Security Consultant joins GuidePoint’s elite team of Application Security experts to deliver the aforementioned services. This involves performing engagements, communicating with clients, delivering comprehensive reports, and providing remediation guidance. You will spend your time focusing on challenging projects and solving complex problems with clients that will rely on your experience, adaptability, and creativity to significantly improve their security posture and processes.

Senior Application Security Consultants also contribute to the Practice’s offerings by perpetually evolving them in response to emerging threats and diverse client needs. Your creativity and expertise will assist the Practice by adapting these offerings to a rapidly changing cyber landscape.

Role Requirements

• Willingness to travel up to 25%

• Delivering Application Security services, including but not limited to Application Threat Modeling, Application Architecture Reviews, and Application Security Program (SDLC) and DevSecOps Assessments

• Author comprehensive assessment deliverables that are proficiently tailored to both technical and managerial audiences and fully detail the technical execution, core deficiencies, business impact, and realistic remediation strategies

• Awareness and understanding of the rapidly changing application security landscape, including open-source and commercial tools, assessment methodologies and approaches, and strategy frameworks, such as OWASP SAMM, OWASP DSOMM, and NIST SSDF

• Deep understanding of a broad range of application security issues, mitigation strategies, and common application security controls

• Assist with Practice development, including improving existing offerings, creating new offerings, and mentoring team members

• Contribute to marketing initiatives via activities such as publishing research, speaking at industry conferences, authoring blog articles and white-papers, hosting webinars, and developing security tools

• Perpetually strengthen relevant skills, knowledge, and abilities to stay at the forefront of the information security industry

• Foster client relationships by providing support, information, and guidance

• Maintain a strong desire to learn, adapt, and improve along with a rapidly-growing company

• Perform other duties as assigned

Education, Credentials, and Experience

• Direct hands-on experience in performing application security service offerings, including but not limited to application threat modeling, application architecture reviews, and application security program (SDLC) assessments

• Experience and working knowledge of application security controls, application architectures, database architectures, application security requirements, and industry standards and frameworks

• Operational DevSecOps experience

• Experience writing code in JavaScript, shell, Python, Java, C++, PHP, or C#, is preferred

• Strong communication skills that include the ability to clearly articulate thoughts and distill complex problems into digestible pieces of information during live conversations, formal deliverables, white papers, and case studies

• InfoSec community involvement, such as conference speaking, blog/whitepaper authoring, and podcast speaking/producing experience, is strongly preferred

• Standard industry certifications are preferred

• Minimum of 4 years of experience in Application Security or related roles

• Minimum of 2 years of experience in a consulting services role or related internal information security positions

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience