Role: Security Specialist – Platform and Applications
Location: Glasgow, Hybrid
Salary: Up to £90,000 DOE + great benefits
The Company:
Net Talent are partnered with a pioneering technology company that specialise in software for electrical utilities across the UK, Europe, and North America. Our client is looking to hire a Security Specialist to join their applications team.
The Role:
Working closely with their architects, software engineering and DevOps teams you will provide expertise to inform and validate the secure design and development of their platform and applications.
Technical insight:
- Ensure that application security is embedded into the software delivery lifecycle
- Support secure product architecture & design functions
- Lead and facilitate application security reviews and threat modelling
- Plan and deliver developer security training in secure coding techniques
- Work with their DevOps team in development of automated security testing
- Develop, maintain and exercise regular vulnerability analysis and security auditing of products
- Perform secure code reviews
- Develop functional security testing scripts and procedures and find opportunities to automate security testing and processes
- Identify inherent vulnerabilities and information security risks within systems and applications
Required Skills and experience:
- Experience of web and application security
- Experience of security tools including static/dynamic analysis, and common security tools
- Good understanding of secure coding methodologies
- Understanding of cryptography and TLS certificate lifecycle management
- Experience with agile software development practices and methodologies
- Understanding of network and web related protocols (such as TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP, HTTPS, protocols).
- Experience identifying security issues through code review.
- Experience in conducting and managing application security risk
Apply today to learn more about this opportunity!