We’re hiring on the Blackbaud Application Security team!

As a member of the Cyber Security organization at Blackbaud, the Application Security Engineer is a specialized position that plays a key role in securing software built and/or used by Blackbaud. You can expect to work closely with software development teams as well as third party organizations to ensure that security, privacy, and compliance requirements are planned for, designed, and built into software applications at Blackbaud. In addition to securing software you will be expected keep tabs on what’s happening in the industry in order to optimize and align our application security processes and systems throughout the Software Development Lifecycle at Blackbaud. The Application Security Engineering team focuses on building automation for security self-service and vulnerability management to reduce unnecessary toil.

What You Will Be Doing

• Identify solutions for difficult security problems while participating in a broader agile Application Security team
• Building a comprehensive solution to conduct consolidation, aggregation, and notification of security findings to respective stakeholders.
• Conducting threat modeling, security design reviews, and providing direct guidance to development teams.
• Responsible for promoting, designing, and evaluating application security in all phases of the software development life cycle, and constantly looking for innovative ways to improve processes.
• Responsible for application security and influencing, building, and assisting with information security challenges within applications.

What We’re Looking For

You are either a security interested software engineer who has been building modern, microservice oriented software in agile development, or a development interested security practitioner who understands security best practices, but wants to get closer to development and engineering.

• Experience partnering with development and systems engineers on impactful security initiatives.
• Understanding software, how it’s designed, how it’s built, and how it can be broken is critical
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to translate security objectives and requirements to specific engineering outcomes.
• Experience with tools like Burp Suite, OWASP Zap, SAST, DAST, and SCA tools as well as other various commercial offerings for application security testing and analysis.
• Experience in integrating security solutions into CI-CD pipelines and automating tooling orchestration.
• Understand DevSecOps cultural mindsets, and an engineering focused approach to solving complex security problems

The Application Security team at Blackbaud is committed to ensuring security issues are prevented, discovered, and remediated in collaboration with our engineering partners across the business. If that description fits your approach to security, we’d love to chat with you about what you can do to help our mission!

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