Senior Application Security Engineer

note: This is a W2/ 1099 contract position. No C2C.Senior Appilcation Security Engineer Location: Coppell, TXMandatory Skills: Perform application security manual penetration tests and with penetration testing tools such as Burp Suite, Kali Linux, Postman.Duties:Application Security Testing – The use and maintenance of cloud and self-managed security scanning tools, manual source code reviews, and manual penetration assessments.Vulnerability Management – The cataloging, reviewing for false positives and mitigations, threat and risk assessments, and lifecycle management through remediation according to SLAs of application vulnerabilities.Release Management – Ongoing reviews of application releases to ensure only secure and reviewed code is pushed to prod, with automation tasks as necessary.CI/CD pipeline – Develop scripts to integrate Security tools into the Jenkins pipeline and assist development teams with interpreting results from pipeline vulnerability verification reports to facilitate vulnerability remediation.Documentation – Perform administrative and regulatory control activities including development of process and procedural documentation and gathering evidence for audits.Process Improvement – Continually enhance current practices, assess current toolset, and help implement new tools and processes to enhance current security coverage.Perform application security manual penetration tests and with penetration testing tools such as Burp Suite, Kali Linux, Postman.SKILL AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: Gain an understanding of the system architecture and integrations.Willingness to understand how the Security vulnerability management tools work and how reporting should be integratedProgramming knowledge and coding experience, particularly Python, JSON, JAVA, and BashExperience working with APIsExperiencing parsing (HTML, XML, etc.)Proficient in GitHub and JenkinsDocker experience in automating deployments and testing