Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Washington Health Benefit Exchange is seeking a Senior Application Security Analyst to protect its data and applications across cloud and on-premises environments. The role integrates security controls throughout the SDLC, conducts application security assessments, threat modeling, vulnerability management, code reviews, and supports secure software development, incident response, and compliance efforts.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a senior subject matter expert for application security across Microsoft Azure and cloud-native architectures including hybrid and multi-cloud environments
- Perform and coordinate application security assessments, code reviews to align with WAHBE security policies, industry standards (NIST, OWASP), and regulatory compliance (e.g., Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Internal Revenue Service (IRS)), including API and microservices security assessments
- Support the implementation and continuous improvement of the Secure Software Development Lifecycle by integrating security controls and best practices into development and deployment processes
- Collaborate with the Delivery team, architects, DevOps engineers to embed security into all phases of the SDLC, including participation in threat modeling, security requirement reviews, and architecture discussions
- Review application and solution architectures to identify security weaknesses, attack surfaces, and insecure design patterns, and provide remediation recommendations
- Perform security design reviews for web applications, APIs, microservices, containers, and serverless technologies to ensure secure implementation practices are followed
- Develop, document, and enforce secure coding standards, secure design guidelines, and application security procedures to ensure consistent and secure development practices
- Enhance and lead the Application Security and Penetration Testing program, including performing security and penetration testing and integrating automated security testing into CI/CD pipelines to ensure continuous and effective validation of application security
- Conduct vulnerability triage, validation, and risk analysis using security tools, threat intelligence, and manual analysis, including false-positive review and remediation prioritization
- Track remediation activities for identified application vulnerabilities and work with development teams to ensure timely resolution or appropriate risk acceptance documentation
- Provide technical guidance for remediation planning and recommend compensating controls when immediate remediation is not feasible
- Support monitoring and reporting activities by preparing vulnerability metrics, remediation status updates, trend analysis, and risk reports for leadership and stakeholders
- Develop and deliver secure coding awareness sessions, technical guidance, and application security training materials for development and engineering teams
- Review Requests for Change (RFCs), product enhancements, and system modifications from a security perspective to ensure security impacts and requirements are addressed
- Continuously monitor the cloud and on-premise environment for security events, anomalies, and potential threats, and conduct thorough investigations to identify root causes and impacts, containment and recovery from security breaches, and preparation of incident reports, including post-incident analysis and lessons-learned
- Partner with Compliance, Risk Management, Audit, Infrastructure Security, and DevOps teams to support audits, regulatory compliance efforts, and secure cloud adoption initiatives
- Ensure procedures, processes and technologies align with WAHBE security policies and regulatory compliance (e.g., CMS, IRS)
- Work closely with delivery teams to ensure security requirements are factored into user stories and case development (including misuse, abuse, and confuse cases within Agile methodology)
- Assess the security posture of new enterprise solutions to be procured by identifying security risk and providing secure cloud adoption guidance
- Provide technical security consultation and assessments for cloud environments and containers, with an emphasis on following best practices and conducting comprehensive technical analysis
- Collaborate with WAHBE DevOps Team to integrate application security into CI/CD pipeline as part of SSDLC and enforce security in deployment workflows
- Assist in maintaining and updating WAHBE Security policies, procedures, and standards ensuring ongoing SSDLC adoption
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders, vendors, and external partners to ensure security integration and ongoing compliance, maintaining synchronization with the Security objectives
- Assist Application Security Lead in reviewing existing security capabilities and assist in defining roadmap and strategy for security enhancements
- Provide regular briefings to Application Security Lead and Information Security Manager (ISM), escalating issues and blockers as necessary
- Provide technical guidance on secure development and vulnerability management activities
- Stay current on industry trends, emerging threats, and relevant technologies, and communicate key insights to the Application Security Lead
- Perform other duties as assigned within the scope of application security
Skills
- Seven (7) years of information security experience in specialized roles such as, but not limited to security architecture and design, security control implementation penetration testing, application security, vulnerability management, incident response
- Demonstrated knowledge of secure SDLC, secure architecture design, application security concepts, and cloud- architecture including DevSecOps practices and shift-left security integration
- Experience performing application security code reviews, roles and permissions matrix reviews, and practical application risk assessments, including manual and automated secure code reviews
- Experience working with common vulnerability assessment tools such as Nessus, Rapid7, Nmap, and Burp Suite, including Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), and Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools
- Advanced understanding of emerging cybersecurity threats, including application-layer attacks, API abuse, and software supply chain vulnerabilities
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to “think outside the box”
- Experience integrating security in infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and the software development lifecycle, including implementation of automated controls and continuous monitoring and security gates and pipeline enforcement policies
- Demonstrates strong interpersonal and collaboration skills, effectively partnering with internal management, staff, and cross-functional teams as well as external partners and vendors
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