Application Security Engineer

Responsibilities

• Execute and support application vulnerability assessments (SAST, DAST, SCA, and manual code review), ensuring findings are accurate, actionable, and relevant to application risk.
• Validate scanner results, perform false-positive analysis, and track findings through remediation, including retesting to confirm effective fixes.
• Manage multiple application security initiatives concurrently while meeting strict timelines in a fast‑paced environment.
• Prioritize vulnerabilities based on business impact, exploitability, exposure, and likelihood, using industry best practices (e.g., CVSS scoring).
• Develop and maintain dashboards and reports tracking vulnerability metrics such as severity distribution, remediation SLAs, and mean time to remediation (MTTR).
• Support the integration of security scanning and vulnerability workflows into CI/CD pipelines, leveraging existing tooling and automation.
• Facilitate remediation planning by providing actionable recommendations and coordinating root cause analysis.
• Support threat modeling and application risk assessments, with a focus on discovering insecure design patterns.
• Participate in high‑severity or zero‑day vulnerability response activities, including impact analysis and coordinated remediation efforts, as needed.
• Provide input into policies and standards related to application and cloud security controls.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or related discipline—or equivalent professional experience.
• 5-7 years of relevant experience in application security and/or vulnerability management.
• Solid understanding of common vulnerability classes (e.g., OWASP Top 10) and secure architecture principles.
• Proficiency in using Burp Suite for manual security testing of web applications and APIs, including validation of automated findings and identification of complex authentication, authorization, and business‑logic vulnerabilities.
• Hands-on experience with tools such as Burp Suite, Fortify, Checkmarx, SonarQube, Black Duck, Tenable, and common network discovery tools (e.g., Nmap).
• Familiarity with NIST, MITRE ATT&CK, and CIS benchmarks.
• Programming/scripting proficiency in languages such as Python, Java, .NET, or similar.
• Excellent documentation, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.

Desired Skills

• Professional certifications (e.g., Security+, SSCP, GWAPT, or pursuing CISSP, OSCP).
• Experience using the ServiceNow platform for vulnerability or incident tracking.
• Proficiency in Azure cloud and Azure DevOps environments.
• Experience using Power BI or similar tools to visualize vulnerability metrics and remediation trends for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Strong Product Security Engineer / Security Engineer / Application Security Engineer / DevSecOps Engineer profiles

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Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have minimum 4+ years of hands-on Application/Product Security or Security Engineering experience,

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Mandatory (Experience 2) – Strong hands-on experience in AWS Cloud Security, Infrastructure Security, and Application Security, with the ability to identify and address security risks at the application/code level.

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Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have hands-on experience in secure SDLC/DevSecOps, including code review, API security, CI/CD security automation, vulnerability management, VAPT/penetration testing, and security tooling.

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Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must have hands-on experience with security audits and compliance frameworks, including SOC 2, GDPR, and ISO 27001, preferably having participated in or driven audits.

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Mandatory (Experience 5) – Experience setting up, managing, and tracking security tools such as MDM, endpoint agents, security monitoring/scanning tools, secrets/access management, and related security tooling.

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Mandatory (Experience 6) – Must demonstrate strong coding/development understanding with the ability to read/write code and assess security of APIs, applications, databases, and distributed systems; not just operate security tools.

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Preferred (Experience 1) – Relevant security certifications such as CISSP, CEH, OSCP, or equivalent.

Job Title: AppSec / AI Security Engineer

Employment Type: Full-time/ Permanent

Location: Indore (Work from Office)

About the Role

We're embedding security and AI governance into the core of our software development lifecycle. This role owns the design and implementation of automated security scanning, code provenance, and governance processes to ensure AI-generated code meets the highest security and compliance standards.

If you're a self-driven engineer who enjoys building security automation from the ground up and weaving security seamlessly into development pipelines, this role is for you.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and integrate security controls into CI/CD pipelines — including automated scanning for source code, dependencies, secrets, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) — with enforcement gates on every merge.
• Design and implement code provenance tracking to capture AI-generated code, the AI models used, and reviewer approvals as part of the development pipeline.
• Develop structured code review workflows incorporating specifications, scan results, and code provenance.
• Optimize security scanning tools to reduce false positives and drive developer adoption.
• Investigate and manage security findings using established remediation and documentation processes.
• Contribute to AI governance standards, including secure usage of AI tools and governance of AI-generated code.
• Conduct independent security reviews of internally developed, third-party, and vendor-supplied code to ensure compliance with security standards.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong hands-on experience in Application Security, with proven expertise securing CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience implementing automated security scanning and enforcement — not just operating existing tools.
• Strong knowledge of SAST, SCA, secret scanning, DAST, and IaC security scanning.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, with hands-on or working knowledge of AWS and Azure, is preferred.
• Ability to design, build, and own security automation and governance solutions from the ground up.
• Strong judgment in balancing security with developer productivity by minimizing unnecessary alerts.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain security risks in clear, business-friendly language.
• Strong analytical mindset and ability to independently assess security risk across internal and external codebases.

Preferred Qualifications

• ~4+ years of experience in Application Security, Security Engineering, DevSecOps, or a related field.
• Experience with AI-generated code security, LLM security risks, prompt injection, code provenance, or AI governance.
• Hands-on experience with tools such as Semgrep, CodeQL, Snyk, Gitleaks, TruffleHog, Prowler, Trivy, or similar.
• AWS certification (Solutions Architect Associate preferred), or willingness to obtain one within 90 days.
• Security certifications such as OSCP, GWAPT, CSSLP, or equivalent.
• Experience writing custom detection rules or security policies (e.g., custom Semgrep rules).

About Company:

Five Exceptions Software Solutions Private Limited is an offshore software development company run by a 15+ year experience team. We are a software development team with extensive experience in developing amazing products, websites, and mobile apps. The company has expertise in different technology spectrums. We provide a better work environment to grow technically and professionally.

For more info, please visit our website:  https://5exceptions.com

A BIT ABOUT US

Appknox is one of the top Mobile Application security companies recognized by Gartner and G2. A profitable B2B SaaS startup headquartered in Singapore & working from Bengaluru.

The primary goal of Appknox is to help businesses and mobile developers secure their mobile applications with a focus on delivery speed and high-quality security audits.

Appknox has helped secure mobile apps at Fortune 500 companies with major brands spread across regions like India, South-East Asia, Middle-East, US, and expanding rapidly. We have secured 300+ Enterprises globally.

We are a 65+ incredibly passionate team working to make an impact and helping some of the biggest companies globally. We work in a highly collaborative, very fast-paced work environment. If you have what it takes to be part of the team, we are excited and let’s speak further.

The Opportunity

To join the security team engaging with multiple clients, helping them with end to end security audits, also research about new topics and vulnerabilities to be added to the scanner, present it in conferences.

What An Ideal Candidate Would Look Like: 

• Skills - Application Penetration Testing (Web, iOS and Android), experience with IoT testing, source code audits.
• Technology Stack: AWS, GCP, Objective C, Java, Python
• Responsibilities: Engage with clients for scoping call, perform security audits, remediation call with clients to patch the issues, research on new technologies/vulnerabilities

Minimum Requirements

• 2-4+ years of experience in application security and vulnerability research
• Strong foundation in mobile app security - Android or Ios
• Proven track record of discovering and disclosing CVEs in mobile platforms or popular applications (provide - github/bug bounty profiles)
• Strong understanding of exploit mitigations and proven ability to bypass them
• Should be able to architect automated detection logic for new vulnerabilities and integrate them into our security products
• Develop AI-driven agents to automate dynamic analysis
• Should be able to Leverage AI/LLMs to augment Pentesting efforts
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment, balancing deep research with practical deliverables

Good to have Requirements

• Understanding of AI/ML security risks

Responsibilities

• Security assessment of web/mobile applications on various platforms
• Focusing on Mobile Application Security Research for new vulnerabilities
• Static and Dynamic Code Analysis
• Develop and interpret security standards and guides
• Automation of exploit development 
• Understand and explain the results with impact on business and compliance status
• Continuously learning and training on latest tools and technique

Work Expectations

Within 1 month

Training on processes, security workflows and develop understanding on internal tools.

Within 3 months

Actively contributing in exploit development and automation of it with the team.

Within 6 months

Expected to achieve Subject Matter Expert status on our core security products. We expect you to validate your findings against real-world conditions, with a strong emphasis on translating internal discoveries into actionable bug bounty submissions and earned CVEs to benchmark your impact against the external security community.

Within 1 Year

By the end of your first year, you will be expected to produce and submit a piece of novel, peer-reviewed security research. This deliverable must be of a quality suitable for top-tier industry conferences.

Personality traits we really admire

• A confident and dynamic working persona, which can bring fun to the team, and a sense of humour, is an added advantage.
• Great attitude to ask questions, learn and suggest process improvements.
• Has attention to details and helps identify edge cases.
• Highly motivated and coming up with fresh ideas and perspectives to help us move towards our goals faster.
• Follow timelines and absolute commitment to deadlines.

Interview Process - would be team specific

• Round 1- CTF round 
• Round 2 -Profile Evaluation; HR
• Round 3 -Technical Interview with security team members
• Round 4 -Technical Interview with the Hiring Manager
• Round 5 -Technical round with CTO
• Round 6 -HR Round

Compensation

• As per Industry Standards

Why Join Us

• Freedom & Responsibility: If you are a person who enjoys challenging work & pushing your boundaries, then this is the right place for you. We appreciate new ideas & ownership as well as flexibility with working hours.
• Great Salary & Equity: We keep up with the market standards & provide pay packages considering updated standards. Also as Appknox continues to grow, you’ll have a great opportunity to earn more & grow with us. Moreover, we also provide equity options for our top performers.
• Holistic Growth: We foster a culture of continuous learning and take a much more holistic approach to train and develop our assets: the employees. We shall also support you all on that journey of yours.
• Transparency: Being a part of a start-up is an amazing experience, one of the reasons being open communication & transparency at multiple levels. Working with Appknox will give you the opportunity to experience it all first-hand.

We are looking for a Cybersecurity Engineer to protect our systems, applications and data. You will find vulnerabilities, monitor threats and strengthen our overall security posture.

Responsibilities

• Run vulnerability assessments and penetration tests (VAPT) on web apps, APIs and networks
• Monitor and respond to security events using SIEM tools as part of SOC operations
• Test application security using Burp Suite and similar tools
• Support ISO 27001 compliance, audits and security policies
• Harden network infrastructure, firewalls and access controls
• Document findings and track fixes with engineering teams

Requirements

• 1+ years of experience in VAPT, SOC or security engineering
• Hands-on experience with Burp Suite and SIEM tools
• Knowledge of the OWASP Top 10 and network security fundamentals
• Exposure to ISO 27001 or similar frameworks
• Certifications such as CEH, OSCP or CompTIA Security+ are a plus

Hi Folks, we are currently Hiring for Security Engineer.

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Hiring: Security Engineer

Company : Pentabay Softwares

Location : Anna salai, Mount Road

Mode: Fulltime

Pentabay Softwares INC is looking for a proactive Security Engineer (2–7 Years Exp) to fortify our global digital solutions. As we scale our footprint in the Healthcare IT sector, you will play a critical role in safeguarding sensitive data (ePHI) and ensuring our cloud-native architectures are resilient against evolving threats.

The Mission

You will be the architect of our defense, bridging the gap between high-speed development and rigorous security standards. Your day-to-day will involve "shifting security left" by embedding DevSecOps practices into our CI/CD pipelines and leading our compliance efforts for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA.

Key Responsibilities

Defense & Architecture: Design and maintain secure cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) and on-prem environments. Implement IAM policies, Zero Trust frameworks, and robust secrets management.

Offensive Testing: Conduct regular vulnerability assessments (VAPT), penetration testing, and code reviews using tools like Burp Suite and Nessus.

DevSecOps & Automation: Integrate SAST/DAST/SCA scanning into engineering workflows. Automate security tasks using Python or Bash.

Incident Response: Monitor SIEM tools (Splunk/CrowdStrike), respond to threats, and develop risk mitigation strategies.

Healthcare Compliance (Plus): Ensure data integrity for HL7/FHIR APIs and maintain HIPAA/HITECH audit readiness for healthcare clients.

What You Bring

Experience: 2–7 years in Information/Application Security with a strong grasp of the OWASP Top 10 and threat modeling (STRIDE).

Technical Depth: Proficiency in network/endpoint security, PKI, encryption standards (TLS/SSL), and container security (Docker/Kubernetes).

Compliance Knowledge: Familiarity with NIST, GDPR, and SOC 2 frameworks.

Tools: Hands-on experience with Metasploit, Wireshark, and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform).

Bonus Points: Industry certifications like OSCP, CISSP, or CEH, and experience in Healthcare IT workflows.

Auditing space like ISO27001 , ISO9001 prefered

Why Pentabay?

At Pentabay, we offer more than just a job; we offer a security-first engineering culture.

Growth: A dedicated learning budget for certifications and conferences.

Impact: Work on cutting-edge Healthcare projects that demand the highest levels of data privacy.

Send resumes to : sandhiya.m at pentabay.com

Cybersecurity Engineer – AI Training Project

About the Opportunity

We’re looking for experienced Cybersecurity Engineers to contribute technical expertise to a customer project focused on improving the capabilities of next-generation AI systems.

In this role, you’ll use your real-world experience in cybersecurity, software engineering, vulnerability assessment, and secure development to create high-quality technical inputs that help AI systems better understand, debug, secure, and reason about complex software.

What You’ll Do

• Analyze, debug, and resolve software bugs, vulnerabilities, and security issues across complex codebases.
• Review source code and identify potential security weaknesses, vulnerabilities, and attack vectors.
• Perform security assessments, vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, and codebase audits.
• Develop and modify software using languages such as Python, Java, Rust, Go, C++, or TypeScript.
• Implement new features and fix existing functionality while maintaining strong security and engineering standards.
• Refactor legacy code to improve security, maintainability, reliability, and performance.
• Work on backend systems and help optimize applications for scalability, performance, and security.
• Analyze real-world security scenarios and translate your expertise into high-quality technical examples and problem-solving tasks.
• Document technical findings, vulnerabilities, debugging approaches, and recommended solutions.
• Provide domain expertise that helps improve how AI systems reason about software engineering and cybersecurity problems.

What We’re Looking For

• Strong professional experience in Cybersecurity / Application Security / Product Security / DevSecOps / Penetration Testing / Vulnerability Management.
• Strong programming experience in one or more of:
• Python
• Java
• Rust
• Go
• C++
• TypeScript
• Proven experience with debugging, troubleshooting, and fixing complex software issues.
• Hands-on experience with penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, security auditing, or application security.
• Understanding of secure software development practices and modern security threats.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, software architecture, and code quality.
• Ability to review unfamiliar codebases and quickly understand how systems work.
• Strong written communication and the ability to explain complex technical findings clearly.

Nice to Have

• Experience with OWASP, API security, cloud security, DevSecOps, or threat modeling.
• Experience performing security assessments on production applications or enterprise systems.
• Experience with tools such as Burp Suite, Metasploit, Nmap, Wireshark, SAST/DAST tools, or vulnerability scanners.
• Contributions to open-source security or software projects.
• Experience working with AI/ML systems, LLMs, data annotation, or AI training projects.
• Relevant security certifications such as OSCP, OSWE, CEH, CISSP, Security+, or equivalent practical experience.

Engagement

• Role: Cybersecurity Engineer
• Work: Remote(Contract)
• Experience: Mid-level to Senior
• Programming: Required
• Cybersecurity expertise: Required

Why Join?

This is an opportunity to apply your existing cybersecurity expertise to an emerging area of technology. Your practical experience debugging software, identifying vulnerabilities, securing applications, and solving complex engineering problems will directly contribute to improving the capabilities of next-generation AI systems.

If you enjoy breaking down complex technical problems, finding vulnerabilities, fixing software, and thinking deeply about how systems work, this project could be a strong fit.

At Shipthis, we are building a better future for freight forwarders by evolving traditional operations into fully digital, efficient, and scalable systems. We’re a fast-growing product company where every individual has the opportunity to take ownership, move fast, and create real impact. If you enjoy solving complex problems, shaping products from the ground up, and influencing technical direction, Shipthis is the place for you.

Learn more at www.shipthis.co

Role Overview

We are looking for an associate-level SecOps Engineer to support security operations, compliance, endpoint management, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps engineering. The role will work closely with the CTO/CISO and engineering team. Security and compliance are core responsibilities; when those priorities are lighter, the engineer will focus on CI/CD, infrastructure automation, reliability, monitoring, performance, and cloud cost optimization.

What You’ll be Doing

Security Operations

• Monitor infrastructure, application, and security alerts and assist with incident investigation.
• Review access controls, privileged accounts, service accounts, permissions, and periodic access reviews.
• Support infrastructure hardening, logging, monitoring, backup, recovery, and other security controls.
• Track security issues and corrective actions through closure.

Vulnerability Management

• Run and review application and infrastructure vulnerability scans.
• Maintain a vulnerability register and coordinate remediation with engineering teams.
• Support VAPT and penetration-testing exercises and validate closure of findings.
• Monitor dependencies, containers, operating systems, and cloud infrastructure for known vulnerabilities and patching needs.

Compliance & Governance

• Support ongoing ISO/IEC 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, customer-security, and internal-policy requirements.
• Maintain audit evidence, control registers, security policies, procedures, risk items, and remediation records.
• Assist with internal/external audits, vendor assessments, customer security questionnaires, and asset inventories.
• Maintain evidence for access reviews, vulnerability management, incidents, onboarding/offboarding, backups, and infrastructure changes.

MDM & Endpoint Security

• Administer the company MDM platform and enroll/manage company laptops, desktops, and mobile devices.
• Maintain device inventory and monitor endpoint compliance.
• Enforce approved controls such as disk encryption, screen locks, password requirements, patching, and endpoint protection.
• Support employee device onboarding/offboarding, approved application deployment, lost/stolen-device procedures, and remote wipe where authorized.
• Maintain endpoint security and MDM evidence required for audits and troubleshoot enrollment or policy issues.

DevOps, CI/CD & Cloud

• Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, build times, caching, and rollback processes.
• Support production and non-production cloud infrastructure, networking, DNS, TLS certificates, IAM, and secrets.
• Automate repetitive deployment, infrastructure, security, and compliance tasks.
• Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, reliability, resource utilization, and cloud costs.
• Troubleshoot pipeline, deployment, and infrastructure issues and participate in root-cause analysis.

Required Fundamentals

• Basic knowledge of Linux, networking, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, TLS, Git, Docker, cloud computing, APIs, and web applications.
• Understanding of IAM, MFA, least privilege, vulnerabilities/CVEs, encryption, logging, patching, and secrets management.
• Strong troubleshooting, ownership, attention to detail, and willingness to learn.

Desired Qualifications

• 1–2 years of experience with strong fundamentals are welcome.
• Basic scripting knowledge in Python, Bash, or similar.
• Interest in cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, automation, and troubleshooting.
• Exposure to AWS/GCP/Azure, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Cloudflare, OWASP, vulnerability scanners, MDM, ISO 27001, or SOC 2 is a plus, not mandatory.

We Welcome Candidates:

• Who can join immediately
• Female candidates returning to work after a career break are strongly encouraged.

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to fostering diversity and inclusivity. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.

Job Synopsys

Location: Bangalore

Job Type: Full-time, Permanent

Experience: 1-2 years

Industry: Software Product

Company Description

Appiness Interactive Pvt. Ltd. is a Bangalore-based product development and UX firm that specializes in digital services for startups to fortune-500s. We work closely with our clients to create a comprehensive soul for their brand in the online world, engaged through multiple platforms of digital media. Our team is young, passionate, and aggressive, not afraid to think out of the box or tread the un-trodden path in order to deliver the best results for our clients. We pride ourselves on Practical Creativity where the idea is only as good as the returns it fetches for our clients.

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Senior Cloud Security Engineer with 7+ years of experience, including strong hands-on expertise in AWS Cloud Security. The candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, assessing, and continuously improving security across AWS cloud environments. The role requires strong knowledge of cloud security architecture, IAM, network security, threat detection, vulnerability management, incident response, security monitoring, encryption, and DevSecOps.

This is a highly technical position. Hands-on technical expertise will be given significantly more importance than communication skills. Good written and verbal communication is sufficient.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure AWS cloud architectures.
• Establish and maintain AWS security best practices and security controls.
• Implement IAM, RBAC, least-privilege access, MFA, federation and privileged access controls.
• Secure AWS networking including VPCs, Security Groups, NACLs, routing, private/public subnets and VPC endpoints.
• Implement and manage AWS security services including:
• AWS IAM
• AWS KMS
• AWS CloudTrail
• Amazon GuardDuty
• AWS Security Hub
• AWS Config
• AWS WAF
• AWS Secrets Manager
• Monitor and investigate security events, threats and suspicious activities.
• Lead or participate in cloud security incident response and root-cause analysis.
• Conduct vulnerability assessments and coordinate remediation.
• Perform AWS security posture reviews and identify misconfigurations.
• Review cloud architectures and provide security recommendations.
• Implement encryption and data protection controls.
• Secure CI/CD pipelines and support DevSecOps practices.
• Review Infrastructure as Code for security risks.
• Implement security automation wherever possible.
• Work with engineering, DevOps and infrastructure teams to embed security into the development lifecycle.
• Establish security standards, policies and controls for AWS environments.
• Support compliance requirements and security audits.
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance.

Mandatory Technical Skills

Must Have

• 7+ years of overall IT/Security/Cloud experience
• Strong AWS Cloud Security experience
• Hands-on AWS security architecture
• AWS IAM
• IAM policies, roles, permissions and least privilege
• AWS networking security
• VPC, Security Groups and NACLs
• CloudTrail and security logging
• GuardDuty
• Security Hub
• KMS and encryption
• Vulnerability management
• Cloud security monitoring
• Incident response
• Security hardening
• Security architecture/design

Good to Have

• AWS Organizations / SCP
• Terraform / CloudFormation
• DevSecOps
• CI/CD security
• Docker/Kubernetes security
• SAST/DAST/SCA
• SIEM tools
• Python/Bash/PowerShell scripting
• CIS Benchmarks
• NIST
• ISO 27001
• SOC 2
• AWS security certifications