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Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for an Application Security Consultant for a contract assignment with one of our premier financial services clients in Irving, TX. Responsibilities :
- Liaise with our internal clients who are seeking vulnerability assessment services with our external pen-testing vendors and assess the security posture of third-party vendors.
- Requires someone with strong organizational and management skills to maintain vendor relationships with a focus around application security testing.
- Lead external vulnerability assessment engagements for our internal clients and ensure that they are executed by external vendors within the required timeframe following firm's testing methodologies and processes.
- Conduct third party (SaaS) vendor report reviews against firm's procedures and reporting guidelines to assess their security posture.
- Review the maturity of existing external ethical hack vendors providing services to the firm.
- Evaluate industry leading pen-testing vendors and onboard them into the firm.
- Act as an application security subject matter expert to assist both businesses and ethical hack vendors during vulnerability discussions.
- Have excellent communication skills in order to effectively set expectations to our internal clients and ensure that they have a clear understanding of respective roles/responsibilities.
- Possess strong technical writing and presentation skills to articulate the vulnerability assessment process end-to-end to any audience.
- Work with development teams to prioritize the remediation of critical vulnerabilities
- Contribute to the review of internal processes and activities and assist in identifying potential opportunities for improvement and automation.
- Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 3 years of experience in the Information Security field.
- Prior application security testing experience is a plus.