Identify, approve high severity True or False positive vulnerabilities.
Support Product teams implementing SAST/SCA in their CI/CD pipelines.
Support Product Teams with Application security expertise for best mitigation of findings.
Provide generic application security consultancy.
Identify security risks in application architecture and infrastructure, drive mitigations.
Contribute to the target S-SDLC framework.
Support application security team strategically and technically developing and improving the main pillars of application security.
Support Security & Privacy Engineering Key activities.
Role Description
The Application Security Tech Lead is responsible for setting up, leading and functionally steering a team of application security engineers.
Contribute to ensure that each steps of SDLC used by software engineers across METRO is following best practices in term of information security and data privacy.
Contribute to develop and maintain the needed technologies and processes to be included in CI/CD to include tollgates to secure that security control validations are automatically performed during development and deployment phases
Support software engineer teams across METRO to address identified software vulnerabilities and weaknesses
Serve as the technical authority, providing expert guidance to the security engineers where needed.
Technical & Soft Skills:
In-Depth knowledge of application security technologies and tools such as SAST,SCA,DAST.
Strong knowledge and skills in scripting, and development of automation in CI/CD.
Good understanding of .git concepts and market leading vendors like GitHub, GitLab.
Deep understanding of OWASP , ASVS is a must.
Proficiency in concepts of vulnerability assessments and scans using automated tools (Qualys, Polaris, …)
Understanding of common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs), Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), and vulnerability databases.
Familiarity with vulnerability management frameworks and methodologies, such as the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) and the Common Vulnerability Enumeration (CVE) system.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with clients, stakeholders, and internal teams.
Proficient in producing reports, briefings, and presentations to communicate findings, trends, and recommendations to stakeholders.
Strong organizational and time management skills with the ability to coordinate and prioritize multiple tasks simultaneously.