Desired Skills and Experience

  • What does this look like? Every day we ask our customers and ourselves:
  • How would an application get hacked or abused?
  • How will we work with developers to fix vulnerabilities and risks?
  • What do developers and business need to know about building secure software?
  • What security testing can we automate?
  • Rare ability to understand, relate to and share the feelings of developers.
  • Tertiary education in an Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Security, or related discipline
  • Ability to provide knowledge to clients at a technical level
  • Knowledge of Information Security
  • Strong knowledge of common vulnerabilities such as OWASP Top 10 and SANS Top 25
  • General IT knowledge of enterprise environments
  • Strong enterprise development skills in either Java or C#
  • Medium knowledge of development build tools (e.g. Ant, Maven, TFS) and source control systems (e.g. SVN, Git, Mercurial, TFS)
  • Strong experience with Web Technologies (e.g. HTML, JavaScript, AJAX, REST, Web services etc) 
  • Exposure to Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing and experience with remediating issues
  • Experience with Source Code Security Tools such as HP Fortify, IBM AppScan source edition, Veracode and Checkmarx
  • Auto scaling and automation experience within AWS environment
  • Hands-on with one or more of these: Puppet, Vagrant, Ansible, Chef…