Senior Application Security Engineer; Remote

Company Description

Abb Vie s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people s lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about Abb Vie, please visit us at  Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, You Tube, Linked In and Tik Tok.

Become a key player in our Information Security team as a Senior Application Security Engineer, where you will leverage your expertise in application security, security engineering, and software development to support and enhance our inline code testing and reporting processes. This role involves the implementation and administration of application security tooling, integration into CI/CD pipelines, and providing support for development teams using these products and consuming their findings.

This position can be remote anywhere in the U.S.

• Implementing and maintaining Application Security Testing (AST) tools (SAST, DAST, IAST, SCA, etc.) to identify code and dependency vulnerabilities during the software development lifecycle.
• Implementing and maintaining Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) tools to centralize and deduplicate findings from multiple solutions and integrate into software development processes.
• Acting as the first line of support for users by helping resolve false positives, providing guidance on finding remediation, and evaluating security exception requests.
• Integrating security tooling with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CICD) pipelines.
• Developing detailed reports on security findings and remediation efforts.
• Demonstrating high proficiency across a wide range of technologies and platforms related to application security, software design and development, containerization, and cloud environments.
• Communicating security risks and evangelizing secure development practices to development teams and their management.
• Understanding vulnerabilities, triaging security risks at scale in disparate application development environments and business units.

• Bachelor’s Degree and 7 years’ experience OR Master’s Degree and 6 years’ experience OR PhD and 2 years’ experience
• 5+ years of experience in application security and software development
• 3+ years of experience implementing, administering, and supporting application security tooling such as SAST/DAST/IAST/SCA
• Extensive knowledge of secure coding practices across multiple programming languages (especially Java, Node.js)
• Extensive experience integrating security testing into CI/CD pipelines
• Strong knowledge of application security principles along with common vulnerabilities (e.g., OWASP Top 10, CWE, etc.) and associated mitigations
• Experience implementing and scaling Dev Sec Ops  practices and tooling within large organizations
• Experience implementing Dev Sec Ops  workflows in cloud environments such as AWS and Azure
• Experience developing Infrastructure As Code (IAC) via solutions such as Terraform and/or Cloud Formation
• Experience supporting developers with assessing and mitigating application security test findings
• Ability to effectively communicate technical findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to function as a principal engineer, generating original technical ideas and strategies. Demonstrated creative  out of the box  thinking to solve difficult technical problems and champion new technologies to achieve program goals.
• Excellent written and oral English communication skills, as demonstrated by presenting at leading scientific or technical conferences.
• Experience coaching and supporting the development of junior engineers

• Experience implementing tooling to consolidate application security test findings from multiple sources to facilitate developer engagement and integrate with development workflows and tracking systems
• Experience administering Snyk and Endor Labs
• Experience integrating Cloud Security Posture Management…