application security engineer

Accenture Security is one of the fastest growing areas of the business with significant growth plans through additional recruitment and acquisitions. You will be joining Accenture's Cyber Protection services, working as part of the rapidly expanding Greek team to manage, maintain and enhance industrialized and repeatable processes, methods, tools and response plans to secure applications and environments and safeguard systems development standards.

Application Security professionals assess, define, implement and/or support world-class application security solutions for Accenture or our clients, spanning simple IT projects to large-scale, enterprise-level programs. The Application Security Engineer role includes:

• Executing security testing and security assessments (SAST, SCA, DAST, IAST) in applications, web apps, APIs.
• Responding to security incidents in a timely manner or supporting in mitigation of findings.
• Analyzing breaches to determine their root cause.
• Defining security testing processes to be integrated into software development life cycle (S-SDLC).
• Collaborate with clients to define best approach to maximize the security posture.

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Qualifications

WHO WE´RE LOOKING FOR? 

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Information Security or relevant engineering discipline.
• At least 2 years of experience working on delivering application security testing projects and services.
• Familiar with security practices and architectures, such as network security, security code development, security auditing, security hardening, information security.
• Experience in conducting security checks, such as SAST, DAST and SCA with Fortify/Veracode/Checkmarx/Blackduck/Snyk/ZAP tools, vulnerability analysis in applications and penetration tests skills using Burp, Metasploit, nmap, IDA Pro, Ghidra, Pentera, XM Cyber or similar.
• Experience with OWASP Testing Guide v3 / 4 and OWASP TOP 10 / OWASP API.
• Understanding of development methodologies (Waterfall, Agile).
• Strong presentation, speaking, collaboration, and writing skills.
• Demonstrate excellent command of Greek & English language, both written and spoken.
• Curious, self-motivated, life-long learner, empathetic, and collaborative.

Will be considered a plus:

• Master in Digital Security field.
• Certifications such as Practical DevSecOps-CDP, CEH, CISSP, CSSLP, CDP/CDE, GWAPT, GWEB, OSWE, CompTIA Security+ (or equivalent).
• Experience in automatization of CI/CD tasks in continuous release development DevOps environments (Jenkins, Ansible).
• Knowledge on PaaS or containerized deployment architectures (OpenStack, OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes…).
• Penetration testing skills

WHAT´S IN IT FOR YOU?

• Competitive salary and benefits, including but not limited to: life/health insura
• nce, performance based bonuses, monthly vouchers, company car (depending on management level), flexible work arrangements, employee share purchase plan, TEA Accenture, parental leave, paid overtime (if needed) and various corporate discounts.
• Continuous hard and soft skills training & development through global platforms & local academy.
• Career coaching and mentorship to help you manage your career and develop professionally.
• Various opportunities to develop your career across a spectrum of clients, industries and projects.