SECURITY ARCHITECT L1

Job Title: Application Security Operation - Lead

Role Summary

Lead the execution and optimization of enterprise Application Security testing services, including SAST, SCA, Secrets Detection, and DAST. Drive secure SDLC adoption through CI/CD integration, vulnerability validation, risk-based remediation tracking, SBOM management, and security metrics reporting.

Key Responsibilities

Perform continuous and incremental application security testing using SAST, SCA, Secrets Detection, and DAST tools.

Validate findings, eliminate false positives, and support vulnerability remediation activities.

Integrate security scanning into CI/CD pipelines and enforce secure development gates.

Manage SBOM generation, open-source dependency risks, CVE tracking, and vulnerability exposure reporting.

Track remediation SLAs, TTD/TTR metrics, and application security KPIs.

Partner with development, DevSecOps, and platform engineering teams to drive remediation and continuous security improvements.

Support security assessments, tool optimization, reporting, and developer enablement initiatives.

Review the report before publishing and lead the report readout meetings with the stakeholders

Provide guidance and Technical governance to the team members

Experience

10 years of experience in Application Security, Secure SDLC, or DevSecOps.

Experience in Team management

Hands-on experience operating enterprise AppSec scanning platforms and vulnerability management processes.

Experience integrating security testing into CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native environments.

Strong understanding of OWASP Top 10, secure coding practices, and software supply chain security.

Technical Skills & Tool Experience

SAST: Checkmarx/Veracode/Fortify/ SonarQube/ GitHub Advanced Security.

SCA & SBOM: Fortify/ Checkmarx / Snyk / Black Duck.

DAST & API Security: Fortify/ Checkmarx/ Burp Suite/ Invicti/ Acunetix.

Secrets Detection: GitGuardian/ GitHub Secret Scanning.

DevSecOps: Azure DevOps/ GitHub Actions/ Jenkins/ GitLab CI/CD.

Container & Cloud Security: Prisma Cloud/ Wiz/ Aqua/ Microsoft Defender for Cloud.

Reporting & ITSM: ServiceNow/ Power BI/ Grafana

Preferred Certifications

CEH/Security+/Certified DevSecOps Professional/AWS/Azure Security Specialty

Do

Design and develop enterprise cyber security strategy and architecture

a. Understand security requirements by evaluating business strategies and conducting system security vulnerability and risk analyses

b. Identify risks associated with business processes, operations,

information security programs and technology projects

c. Identify and communicate current and emerging security threats and design security architecture elements to mitigate threats as they emerge

d. Identify security design gaps in existing and proposed architectures and recommend changes or enhancements

e. Provide product best fit analysis to ensure end to end security covering different faucets of architecture e.g. Layered security, Zoning, Integration aspects, API, Endpoint security, Data security, Compliance and regulations

f. Demonstrate experience in doing security assessment against NIST Frameworks, SANS, CIS, etc.

g. Provide support during technical deployment, configuration, integration and administration of security technologies

h. Demonstrate experience around ITIL or Key process-oriented domains like incident management, configuration management, change management, problem management etc.

i. Provide assistance for disaster recovery in the event of any security breaches, attacks, intrusions and unusual, unauthorized or illegal activity

j. Provide solution of RFP’s received from clients and ensure overall design assurance

i. Develop a direction to manage the portfolio of to-be-solutions including systems, shared infrastructure services, applications, hardware related to cyber risk security in order to better match business outcome objectives

ii. Analyse technology environment, enterprise specifics, client requirements to set a collaboration design framework/ architecture

iii. Depending on the client’s need with particular standards and technology stacks create complete RFPs

iv. Provide technical leadership to the design, development and implementation of custom solutions through thoughtful use of modern technology

v. Define and understand current state solutions and identify improvements, options & tradeoffs to define target state solutions

vi. Clearly articulate and sell architectural targets, recommendations and reusable patterns and accordingly propose investment roadmaps

vii. Evaluate and recommend solutions to integrate with overall technology ecosystem

viii. Tracks industry and application trends and relates these to planning current and future IT needs

Stakeholder coordination & audit assistance

a. Liaise with stakeholders in relation to cyber security issues and provide timely support and future recommendations

b. Provide assistance in maintaining an information security risk register and help with internal and external audits relating to information security

c. Support audit of security best practices and implementation of security principles across the organization, to meet business goals along with customer and regulatory requirements

d. Assist with the creation, maintenance and delivery of cyber security awareness training to team members and customers

e. Provide training to employees on issues such as spam and unwanted or malicious emails

Deliver