Application Security Vulnerability Analyst

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for an Application Security Vulnerability Analyst for a contractor assignment with one of our premier Insurance Services clients. This is a remote role; candidates must work EST business hours.


Responsibilities:

• Review and analyze vulnerabilities identified through SAST, SCA, AI-based, and related application security tools.
• Perform hands-on review of application source code to validate security findings and determine whether identified vulnerabilities represent legitimate risk.
• Triage findings before engaging development teams, with a focus on identifying false positives and minimizing non-actionable issues.
• Evaluate vulnerabilities beyond vendor-assigned severity scores by considering exploitability, exposure, attack paths, business impact, compensating controls, and application context.
• Validate vulnerability classifications, severity recommendations, and remediation priority.
• Utilize AI tools and effective prompting techniques to analyze security findings, increase confidence in finding credibility, and reduce false positives.
• Assess vulnerability trends and recurring development patterns that may require broader corrective action.
• Explain validated application security findings clearly to developers, architects, technology owners, and business stakeholders.
• Provide actionable remediation guidance and secure coding recommendations.
• Partner with developers and technology owners to drive validated vulnerabilities through remediation and closure within defined SLAs.
• Track remediation progress and escalate aging findings or remediation blockers as appropriate.
• Validate completed remediation activities and make closure recommendations.
• Support vulnerability triage and vulnerability management activities across multiple application security tools.
• Participate in vulnerability review sessions and remediation discussions.
• Maintain accurate documentation of risk decisions, remediation guidance, and disposition rationale.
• Contribute to application security procedures, reporting, and process improvements.

Required Skills:

• 3+ years of experience in Application Security, Application Vulnerability Management, or a closely related cybersecurity discipline.
• Hands-on experience reviewing and validating application security findings generated by SAST and SCA tools .
• Strong application security vulnerability analysis and triage experience, including the ability to distinguish legitimate vulnerabilities from false positives.
• Hands-on technical ability to review source code and validate security findings at the code/application level before escalating issues to development teams.
• Ability to evaluate vulnerabilities based on actual exploitability, exposure, attack paths, application context, compensating controls, and business risk rather than relying solely on CVSS scores.
• Strong understanding of application security concepts and practices, including:
  • OWASP Top 10
  • Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
  • Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC)
  • Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
  • CVE/CVSS concepts
• Ability to analyze application security findings involving one or more modern enterprise development languages, including Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, C#, Python, Go, Node.js, or similar languages.
• Hands-on experience using AI tools to support application security or vulnerability analysis , including the ability to create effective prompts to validate findings, improve analysis, and reduce false positives.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly communicate technical security findings.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple vulnerability analysis and remediation efforts simultaneously.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and drive issues toward resolution.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience working directly with development teams to explain vulnerabilities, provide remediation guidance, and drive findings through closure.
• Experience with AppScan, Snyk, ZAP , or comparable application security tools.
• Experience with Claude Code or similar AI-assisted security/development tools.
• Secure code review experience.
• Application security testing experience.
• CI/CD security integration experience.
• Experience with SCA tools and software dependency risk analysis.
• Understanding of software architecture and common web application attack patterns.
• Working knowledge of cloud-native applications and APIs.
• Familiarity with enterprise vulnerability management processes, remediation SLAs, and tracking workflows.
• Security certifications such as Security+, CSSLP, GWEB, GWAPT, CySA+, OSWE, or similar.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or a related field preferred, or equivalent relevant professional experience.

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