Application Security Engineer
Datavant
Datavant is a data platform company and the world’s leader in health data exchange. Our vision is that every healthcare decision is powered by the right data, at the right time, in the right format.
Our platform is powered by the largest, most diverse health data network in the U.S., enabling data to be secure, accessible and usable to inform better health decisions. Datavant is trusted by the world’s leading life sciences companies, government agencies, and those who deliver and pay for care.
By joining Datavant today, you’re stepping onto a high-performing, values-driven team. Together, we’re rising to the challenge of tackling some of healthcare’s most complex problems with technology-forward solutions. Datavanters bring a diversity of professional, educational and life experiences to realize our bold vision for healthcare.
What We’re Looking For
As an Application Security Engineer, you will be responsible for identifying, assessing, analyzing, prioritizing, and coordinating application security vulnerabilities across Datavant’s IT infrastructure, business applications, and cloud environments. You will have a strong technical background in applications security space with SAST, SCA, container scanning, penetration testing, threat modeling, API Security and pipeline integrations.
What You Will Do
- Focus primarily on vulnerability assessment, scanning, prioritization in Datavant’s infrastructure and applications including those within the FedRAMP boundary, ensuring follow up on vulnerability remediation efforts managing risk effectively for the organization.
- Engage heavily with product and engineering teams to assess all vulnerability risks and communicate to both technical and non-technical team members the risk level, impact, and options for remediation and/or mitigation of risk.
- Maintain and implement security scanning solutions in SAST/SCA/Container Security/Cloud/Infrastructure scanning space
- Work on building and automating self service dashboards in vulnerability management space
- Prepare for and support annual FedRAMP 3PAO assessments by validating control evidence, resolving findings, and reviewing audit artifacts.
- Partner with GRC, Platform, Product, and Engineering teams to translate compliance requirements into actionable technical tasks.
- Help facilitate quarterly planning discussions by providing strategic prioritization of all security-related requests, including (but not limited to) architectural feedback, vulnerability remediation, compliance control implementation, etc.
- Translate compliance control intent into modern engineering workflows. Rather than applying controls literally, decompose their requirements into their core assurance goals, then rebuild them as scalable, low-friction implementations that achieve the same assurance (or better) through automation, auditable development workflows, and practical risk management
- Review application projects our development teams build. This will mean putting eyes on code through secure code reviews as well as working with the teams to understand the broad architecture of systems being built. You’ll be very comfortable providing control feedback in a review environment to development teams. You’ll be adept at using your knowledge to the application of practical risk management.
- Own new projects for advancing security in our environment. Be the deep technical expert and collaborate with others on the teams to ensure project success. Your impact here cannot be understated, you are a core contributor and have deep influence to empower Datavant greatness
What You Need to Succeed
- Strong technical expertise and prior experience in vulnerability assessment space
- 3+ years of working in vulnerability research, scanning, prioritization
- 3+ years of working with application security scanning for SAST, SCA, container scanning
- Strong understanding of at least one programming language such as Python, Java, Golang,C## (or equivalent language)
- Have a deep understanding of Application, Cloud, Container security. You’ll use this knowledge to provide architectural reviews and contributions to our development teams
- Have a strong understanding of security controls, both those that exist in audit standards as well as practical controls that can help reduce risk and increase safety in application development environments and AWS and/or Azure
- Proven ability to automate/ build solutions
- Strong communication skills
- You understand how the broad parts of a security team function and operate in unison
- You can articulate start to finish what role security should play in ideation and build with development teams
- You have opinions and options on most of the steps
- You are a consummate collaborator, it’s inherent in your work behavior
- Ability to understand the tradeoffs between ideal security and what is necessary to appropriately secure a legacy system
- You are heavily focused on delivery and being impactful; Understand how to operate and succeed in a very fast-paced environment where the security team should be a partner and enabler for the engineering team rather than a blocker
- We lean deeply into individuals who have experience and have practical knowledge of applying standards in low friction ways
- Broad scoped projects don’t scare you, they energize you. However, you like to get things done fast (and help others) with limited dependencies
What Helps You Stand Out
- Ability to provide technical thought leadership in the application security space.
- Strong understanding of risk
- Prior hands-on experience building automated solutions specifically in the Vulnerability management space.
- You are often viewed as the “expert in the room” for application security space.
- Prior experience building and architecting secure solutions
- You have experience with security in healthcare or other highly regulated space. Examples: HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, and PCI experience from an operational response standpoint
- Deep experiencing representing companies to government agencies for FedRAMP High and Moderate environments
To ensure the safety of patients and staff, many of our clients require post-offer health screenings and proof and/or completion of various vaccinations such as the flu shot, Tdap, COVID-19, etc. Any requests to be exempted from these requirements will be reviewed by Datavant Human Resources and determined on a case-by-case basis. Depending on the state in which you will be working, exemptions may be available on the basis of disability, medical contraindications to the vaccine or any of its components, pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions, and/or religion.
This job is not eligible for employment sponsorship.
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