Application Security Engineer

Job Role: Application Security Engineer
Employment Type: Contract
Start Date: January 2027
Contract Length: 9-12 months
Remote/Hybrid/Office: Hybrid
Day Rates: TBC

About us
FT Select is a niche technology search and selection company, specialising in recruiting elite Sales Executives and high-end Technology specialists for high-growth tech businesses.________________________________________
About the Company
A well-known leading global financial services organisation.
Description of Role:
In this position, you are a passionate and talented application security engineer with very deep understanding of OWASP, CWE 25, Data Protection, Access management, software vulnerabilities, best practices design and threat modelling skills, who can work in a dynamic environment. You must be dedicated to able to work with developers in producing secure code in short time frames and be willing to go beyond the standard routine.
Key Responsibilities
Your primary responsibilities include:
•Work as part of a team of software and security engineers to design/maintain and build best-in-class product security tools and services.
•Technical point of contact for product teams as it relates to automation, CI/CD, and Product Application Security Operations
•Using approved AI models and cyber harnesses to assess application code for business logic weaknesses, misconfiguration and vulnerabilities.
•Build tools and automation scripts that enable developers to easily consume security services delivered by Security Engineering and Automation team
•Responsible for security product QA and Testing
•Build strong relationships with product development teams
•Run software composition analysis (SCA) tools
•To understand and explain penetration testing findings to the software engineering teams helping them to triage the findings and explaining how to mitigate the risks
•To articulate business risk when assessing software vulnerabilities
•Continuously improve the operations of SAST, DAST and IaC security tools
•Continuously improve the operations of Web Application Firewalls (WAF) or IDS
•Continuously improve the coverage of security tooling in Cloud environments e.g.
oMicrosoft Azure & Amazon AWS
Required Skills:
•Computer Science / Cyber Security Degree
•Application Development background
•Azure DevOps experience
•Prior experience in using AI models and cyber harnesses to support security evaluation of application and software code.
•GitHub, Copilot, Codex, OWASP Top 10 for Agentic AI, AI skills development and security triage.
•Ability to code in at least one programming language e.g. Python/JavaScript/CSharp/Powershell
•Prior experience working in a large organisation or Financial Services is an advantage
•Excellent analytical skills with attention to details
•CISSP/CSSLP/CEH/OSCP or similar certification
•Presentation skills - ability to present complex solutions to a less technical audience
•Team-player interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with different people in a variety of roles
•Passionate about developing a career in Information Security
•Excellent command of the English language, both written and spoken