Senior Application Security Engineer

Senior Application Security Engineer

This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work.

We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today's complex world.

Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what's next.

We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here.

We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs.

We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you.

Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description:

Application Security Engineer - Job Description

Summary

We are seeking an experienced Application Security Engineer to join our Cyber Security organization and strengthen the security of our applications, APIs, and CI/CD pipelines.

In this role, you will partner with engineering, architecture, and DevOps teams to embed security into the SDLC, implement and optimize WAF policies, enhance supply chain and pipeline security, and promote secure API and application design across the enterprise.

This position is ideal for a hands-on security professional with deep technical expertise in application, API, and DevSecOps security, and the ability to influence engineering teams in a large enterprise environment.

Key Responsibilities


* Integrate security practices throughout the SDLC in partnership with engineering and DevOps teams.


* Promote secure coding standards, tooling, and automation.


* Design, implement, and maintain security controls within CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps, etc.).


* Ensure software integrity through code signing, artifact validation, and provenance.


* Automate SAST, DAST, SCA, and container image scanning in the build and release pipelines.


* Automated AI specific vulnerability scanning into CI/CD to catch insecure LLM orchestration patters


* Identify and remediate misconfigurations and access control gaps in pipeline environments.


* Design, deploy, and tune WAF rules and API security protections.


* Conduct API risk assessments and promote secure API design patterns.


* Perform secure code reviews and support automated security testing coverage across pipelines.


* Triage, prioritize, and track vulnerabilities across source code, CI/CD pipelines, and deployed services.


* Facilitate threat modeling for applications, APIs, and delivery pipelines.


* Perform threat modeling on RAG architecture and autonomous agents


* Expand security automation around API discovery, dependency scanning, SBOM generation, and secrets detection.


* Mentor engineering teams on se...