application security - onsite bc or remote.

Are you an Application Security Analyst with experience developing security requirements and designing and implementing security solutions? Our Government client is seeking someone with the skillset for an initial 6 months with the option to extend the contract term by an additional 1 year and 6 months at the client's sole discretion

Client: Government
Duration: 6 months with a possibility for an extension
Location: Either onsite Vancouver or Victoria or remote
Pay Rate: $103-119/hr INC

Advantages
Working with one of the leading provincial financial institutions in British Columbia.

Responsibilities
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
Application Security:
•Leads the evaluation, selection, and implementation of SAST, DAST, and SCA tooling, including integration into CI/CD pipelines and development of detailed remediation runbooks for scan findings
•Works with DevSecOps to develop and maintain secure coding standards, guidelines, and training materials for development teams
•Conducts application security assessments, threat modeling sessions, and architecture reviews for new and existing applications

•Champions security culture by embedding into Agile development teams as a security subject matter expert
•Documents designs as well as produces technical reports in support of security initiatives
•Triages and prioritizes application security vulnerabilities, working with development teams on remediation strategies
•Develops and maintains security testing automation to enable continuous assurance of application security posture
•Leads and completes security risk reviews on software, SaaS, third party and written code
•Monitors emerging AI and ML security threats, application security threats, vulnerabilities and attack techniques and proposes new solutions to emergent risks in these areas
•Develops technical security requirements and provides guidance to projects during the solution design phase.
•Collaborates and coordinates with application, operations and product teams to provide guidance on the development of secure product designs that meet security requirements
•Mentors and upskills team members on application security best practices and tooling.
•Proactively identifies risks and issues and proposes solutions to remove barriers
•Performs validation and tuning of security testing tools to provide accurate and actionable results
that drive improvements to overall security posture
•Performs security monitoring of solutions and participates as a subject matter expert in security incident response scenarios
•Performs other related duties as required

Qualifications
QUALIFICATIONS
•Bachelor’s degree in Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
•A minimum of 8-10 years of experience in progressively senior technical roles with responsibility focused on information security processes, products and projects
•Very strong knowledge in secure software engineering
•Experience with securing cloud environments (MS Azure)
•Must have excellent customer-service, listening, communication and problem-solving skills
•Must be able to implement programs and solutions to measure and sustain the security posture of large complex environments
•Ability to communicate complex security issues and develop security user stories in language that non-technical stake holders can understand
•Experience with Agile methods (Scrum) and DevSecOps practices is a definite asset

Summary
Join our client in this exciting opportunity to lead a transformative project where you can make a significant impact. Apply directly to this job ad or reach out to your Randstad Digital representative immediately!

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