Application Security Specialist

Cambridge, MA, us on site Until 8/22/2026 First posted March 21, 2025 Last posted March 21, 2025
Job description

Engineering

Title: Application Security Specialist
Location: Cambridge, MA

Duration: 6 Months(Extendable)

Roles & Responsibilities:

•    Creating application security related policies & processes
•    Creating RFP for selecting a service provide for application security
•    Analysing RFP results and presenting to stakeholders
•    Coordinate vendor product demonstrations and presentations
•    Analysing application security products from various vendors
•    Conducting pilot or POC with selected vendors for threat modelling, architecture reviews , code scanning and penetration testing
•    Collaborating with cross functional teams and getting their buy in Managed project deadlines.

Skills:

•    Good mediation and facilitation skills
•    Good knowledge of IT Project Management
•    Experience with compliance and security requirements[AR1] related to medical devices, including data privacy.
•    Knowledge of (information) risk management related standards or frameworks such as COSO, ISO 2700x, CobiT, ISO 24762, BS 25999, NIST, ISF Standard of Good Practice and ITIL
•    Knowledge of OWASP, SDLC, Encryption, Identity and Access Management, data integrity measures
•    capability to design application security related policies and processes deep knowledge of integration between Security and system development life cycle Experience:10+ years of working experience
•    3+ years as an IT security expert
•    Broad and in-depth technical, analytical and conceptual skills
•    Experience in reporting to and communicating with senior level management
•    Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills; interpersonal and collaborative skills; and the ability to communicate information risk-related concepts to technical as well as nontechnical audiences, and to audiences with a risk management profile as well as those with a less outspoken risk management profile.
•    Excellent understanding and knowledge of general IT infrastructure technology, systems and management processes


Proven experience to create new processes or improve existing process Applicaiton Security Application Architecture MS-Office
Understanding of OWASP top 10 and SANS 25


Professional information security certification, such as CISSP, CISM or ISO 27001 auditor / practitioner is preferred.
Professional (information system) risk or audit certification such as CIA, CISA or CRISC is preferred.

Undergrad in Computer Science or relevant is required: Masters degree is preferred


All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

About this role

Summary

Develop and analyze application security policies, conduct threat modeling, and coordinate vendor assessments.

Job title

Application Security Specialist

Experience level

10+ years

Industry

software

Location requirements

Cambridge, MA, US; on-site with possible remote options

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

security policiesrisk managementOWASPSDLCencryptionIAMISO 2700xCISSPCISM

Preferred skills

ISO 27001CISACRISCCISSPCISM

Specializations

application securitythreat modellingpenetration testingrisk management
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Cambridge, MA, USA

On-site City