Your role and responsibilities
Security Consultant, IBM Corporation, Armonk, NY and various unanticipated client sites throughout the US (Up to 40% telecommuting permitted):
- Identify application security by design requirements and objectives based on an application profile, business context and applicable data security regulations.
- Perform application security risk assessments and provide recommendations towards the implementation of application security controls to secure applications.
- Develop policies and procedures to meet organizational application security requirements.
- Perform assessments of the architecture to secure application development approach and strengthen the application security architecture and posture by providing countermeasures to improve application security posture and to reduce cyber risk at scale.
- Analyze applications for potential threats and attack vectors by conducting workshops to document and understand security architecture, attack surface, trust boundaries, and data flows.
- Implement and configure security tools such as IriusRisk and SD Elements to identify security requirements for the adoption of secure development practices to manage and sustain compliance across the organization.
- Work on projects related to Application Security, Threat Modeling and DevSecOps.
- Define and document an end-to-end secure software development life cycle (Secure-SDLC) to categorize and define essential security controls and countermeasures for clients.
- Assist client to define and document security controls protocols based on business requirements.
- Develop Threat Models that enumerate cybersecurity threats by attack surface; document and verify the existing security mitigations and identify if additional mitigations are required.
- Utilize: DevSecOps, Threat Modeling, Security Requirement Management, Vulnerability Assessment and Remediation, SD Elements, IriusRisk.
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Required: Master's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or related (employer will accept a Bachelor's degree plus five (5) years of progressive experience in lieu of a Master's degree) and one (1) year of experience as a Security Specialist, Application Security Consultant, Security Analyst or related. One (1) year of experience must include utilizing DevSecOps, Threat Modeling, Security Requirement Management, Vulnerability Assessment and Remediation, SD Elements, IriusRisk. H202. Full time$173,056 to $221,600 per year.
Required education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
Required: Master's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or related (employer will accept a Bachelor's degree plus five (5) years of progressive experience in lieu of a Master's degree) and one (1) year of experience as a Security Specialist, Application Security Consultant, Security Analyst or related. One (1) year of experience must include utilizing DevSecOps, Threat Modeling, Security Requirement Management, Vulnerability Assessment and Remediation, SD Elements, IriusRisk.
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- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
- Financial programs such as 401(k), the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
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This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.
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