About this role
- Security Specialist/Assistant Manager
- Role Summary:
- Responsible for providing technical solution, leadership, and oversight for projects and support security operations. The role serves as the primary bridge between business stakeholders, project management, and technical teams, ensuring solutions are designed, implemented, and maintained in alignment with organizational objectives, quality standards, and security requirements.
- This individual will be the right arm of project manager to ensure driving the project technically and meet the objectives.
- Key Responsibilities:
- Application Security & Testing
- Supporting SAST, DAST, API, container, Pen Testing and IaC security testing.
- Tools exposer like Qualys, Aqua, Burp Suite, Akamai WAF, BitSight, ServiceNow will be an added advantage.
- Working knowledge of application architecture, APIs, cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines, and modern software development practices
- Validate vulnerabilities and assess their technical and business impact using OWASP API Security Top 10, and secure coding practices.
- Vulnerability Management:
- Review and prioritize vulnerabilities using CVSS, exploitability, asset criticality, and business context.
- Support remediation and vulnerability validation.
- Work with application and infrastructure teams to resolve security findings.
- Identify recurring vulnerability patterns and potential root causes.
- Customer Engagement and Management Experience :
- Serve as a technical security liaison with customers during security assessments and related engagements.
- Managing end-to-end delivery of projects, ensuring adherence to timelines, quality standards, and resource need requirements.
- Coordinating with cross-functional stakeholders to drive successful project outcomes.
- Monitoring KPIs, SLAs, and operational metrics and implementing improvement plans where required
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work directly with customers and technical stakeholders.
- Ability to independently lead technical security assessments, problem solving and communicate findings and remediation recommendations
Prior Experience :
The candidate must have 6 to 8 years of relevant experience in a similar role, preferably in a professional services organization.