Associate Director - Application Security
S&P Global23 hours ago
Base Salary
$130k - $190k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead application security assessments using SAST, SCA, DAST, API security, secrets detection, and threat modeling.
- Integrate security controls and risk-based quality gates into developer workflows across GitHub, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and cloud-native platforms.
- Perform threat modeling and security design reviews for applications, APIs, and cloud services.
- Design and implement AI-enabled application security tools, agents, and automations for testing, triage, and remediation.
- Partner with engineering, product, cloud, and risk stakeholders to establish scalable security controls and resolve systemic application risks.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to security analysts and engineering partners.
- Contribute to enterprise standards, procedures, and audit-ready documentation.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or Engineering.
- At least 6 years of experience in Application Security, DevSecOps, or secure software.
- Proficiency in SAST, SCA, DAST, threat modeling, and CI/CD security integration.
- Experience integrating security controls into GitHub, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or cloud-native delivery environments.
- Experience using generative AI and AI-assisted development tools to build security tooling, scripts, integrations, or automations.
- Preferred experience with Model Context Protocol, AI agents, agentic architectures, tool calling, and retrieval-augmented generation.
- Preferred experience with application security across AWS, Azure, and GCP and multi-cloud security controls.
- Preferred proficiency in Python, PowerShell, or equivalent scripting languages.
- Preferred experience with software supply chain security, dependency governance, artifact management, provenance validation, and trusted package consumption.
- Ability to communicate complex security risks, drive remediation across distributed engineering teams, and provide technical mentorship.
Benefits
- Health care coverage and wellness benefits.
- Generous paid time off and flexible downtime.
- Continuous learning resources and professional development support.
- Retirement planning, continuing education support, company-matched student loan contributions, and financial wellness programs.
- Family-focused benefits, retail discounts, and referral incentive awards.