Job Description

Position: Security Engineer

Location: Austin, TX 78758

Duration: 3 Months

Job Type: Contract

Work Type: Onsite

Pay Rate: $57.42 - $57.42/Hourly

Overview

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. We are a community of 50 million who think—and feel—differently about investing. Together, we’re changing the way the world invests. Since our founding in 1975, helping investors achieve their goals has been our main reason for existence. At Client, we’re built differently. Our client is investor-owned, meaning that we’re owned by our funds, which are owned by our fund shareholder clients. Therefore, your success adds to ours, so you’re surrounded by people who care about the same things. With no other parties to answer to, we make decisions—including keeping investing costs as low as possible—with your needs in mind. Because of our unique structure, your goals align with our goals.

Job Description:

• A Security Engineer focuses on defensive security and the support of vulnerability discovery across assets/services.
• They play a hands-on role in the proactive identification and remediation of security issues at client.
• Security Engineers use a variety of tools to analyze and review services to ensure they are built securely.
• This involves secure source code review, threat modeling and secure system design, understanding of web vulnerabilities and how to identify and fix them.

Required Skills:

• Application development experience.
• Hands-on management and operation of vulnerability discovery tools and infrastructure.
• Vulnerability identification and management.
• Customer service and partner with security teams.
• Manage relationships and projects with software development teams and security suppliers.
• Continuously improve, extend, and automate vulnerability discovery capabilities.
• Detail-oriented.
• Verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills, ability to work independently, and maintain professionalism under pressure.

Additional Skills:

• Application security fundamentals.
• Preferred development languages: Python and Java.
• Web application security testing.
• A Computer Science or equivalent technical degree and 3-5 years of relevant experience is required.

Typical Day in the Role:

• Daily Schedule: Monday to Friday (8-5)
• Interaction with team/Day to Day:

Candidate Requirements

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Someone who has 2-3 years’ experience in security foundation
• Venerability management on 3 party software
• Former software development engineer
• Previous penetration tester.
• Years of Experience: 2-3
• Degree or Certification:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science and computer engineering or cybersecurity

Top 3 must-have hard skills

• Venerability management
• Risk Assessments on 3rd party software
• Application security reviews

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

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