Application Security Engineer, ADR - Assistant Vice President
State Street · Posted Oct 30
Investment servicing, custody, asset management, and trading solutions for institutional investors
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About the role
The State Street Cyber Security Architecture & Engineering team builds and operates application security and DevSecOps capabilities for the bank's enterprise application portfolio. The team focuses on Application Security (AppSec), Application Detection and Response (ADR), threat detection, incident response, secure software development lifecycle, and runtime application protection and monitoring technologies. This role designs, implements, and supports ADR capabilities that provide visibility into application-layer threats, attacks, and vulnerabilities, partnering with development, engineering, security operations, and cybersecurity teams.
What you will do
- Help define and build the organization's Application Detection and Response (ADR) strategy, integrating runtime application security monitoring and threat detection into the broader Application Security and DevSecOps programs.
- Partner with Engineering, Security Operations, Cloud Security, and Application Development teams to implement and operationalize ADR technologies and processes.
- Lead the deployment, onboarding, and operational support of ADR platforms, ensuring effective integration with enterprise applications and security tooling.
- Monitor, analyze, and investigate application-layer security events, attack patterns, and anomalous behaviors identified through ADR solutions.
- Collaborate with application teams to triage, prioritize, and remediate security findings, threats, and attack indicators detected within applications.
- Develop use cases, detection logic, alerting mechanisms, and response workflows to improve visibility into application threats and reduce response times.
- Integrate ADR platforms with incident response processes.
- Deliver and communicate security reporting, dashboards, metrics, and executive-level summaries related to application threats, attacks, and remediation activities.
- Develop and maintain ADR, AppSec, and DevSecOps documentation, standards, and operational procedures.
- Support internal and external audits by providing evidence, documentation, and process adherence related to application security monitoring and response capabilities.
- Work with stakeholders to continuously improve application monitoring, detection accuracy, response effectiveness, and security processes.
- Provide technical leadership and support for strategic projects through planning, implementation, and operationalization.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Strong software development background with technologies such as Java, .NET, Python, Node.js, or similar platforms.
- Experience with cloud technologies including Azure and AWS.
- Experience in Application Security disciplines, including SAST, DAST, SCA, API Security, Container Security, and Secure SDLC practices.
- Experience implementing or supporting Application Detection and Response (ADR), Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP), Web Application and API Protection (WAAP), API Security, Threat Detection, or related application security technologies.
- Strong understanding of attack techniques targeting web, mobile, cloud-native, and API-based applications, including OWASP Top 10, API security risks, and advanced threat scenarios.
- Experience analyzing application telemetry, logs, traces, and security events to identify malicious activity and investigate incidents.
- Current information security certifications such as CISSP, GCIH, GWAPT, or equivalent is highly desirable.
- Experience with automation and orchestration technologies such as Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
- Proven technical solutioning experience with current and emerging technologies including Agile Development, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Cloud Security, Application Security, Threat Detection, Incident Response, and Cybersecurity.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively across technical, operational, and executive audiences.
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple initiatives, operational responsibilities, incidents, and projects simultaneously.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Security, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 14+ of years of relevant combined experience across development, CI/CD, software supply chain security and application security.
- Experience with application security tooling and its operations with modern CI/CD, and DevSecOps best practices.
- Experience partnering with Dev community to influence without authority to adopt application security best practices, and tooling.
- Certifications like Security+, CISSP are highly desirable
Benefits and support
- flexible work-life support
- paid volunteer days
About State Street
State Street Corporation is a leading global financial services holding company providing institutional investors with investment servicing, investment management, and investment research and trading. Operating in more than 100 geographic markets worldwide, the company manages and administers trillions of dollars in assets through its core divisions like State Street Global Advisors and State Street Alpha. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, it traces its origins back to 1792.
- Industry
- Financial Services
- Company size
- 51000+ employees
- Founded
- 1792-06-25
- Location
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
John Woods
Chief Financial Officer
Mostapha Tahiri
President of State Street Alpha & Chairman of Asia Pacific
Ann Fogarty
Enterprise Chief Operating Officer
President and Chief Executive Officer of State Street Investment Management
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