Senior Application Security Engineer

SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group. Headquartered in Tokyo and with a 400-year history, SMBC Group offers a diverse range of financial services, including banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance. The Group has more than 130 offices and 80,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) is the holding company of SMBC Group, which is one of the three largest banking groups in Japan. SMFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: SMFG) stock exchanges.

In the Americas, SMBC Group has a presence in the US, Canada, Ireland, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. Backed by the capital strength of SMBC Group and the value of its relationships in Asia, the Group offers a range of commercial and investment banking services to its corporate, institutional, and municipal clients. It connects a diverse client base to local markets and the organization’s extensive global network. The Group’s operating companies in the Americas include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC), SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., SMBC Capital Markets, Inc., SMBC MANUBANK, JRI America, Inc., SMBC Leasing and Finance, Inc., Banco Sumitomo Mitsui Brasileiro S.A., and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Co., Ltd.

This is a hybrid role, requiring the successful candidate to attend our Tralee office weekly.

Role Description

The Senior Application Security Engineer will be responsible for ensuring that all code scanning vulnerabilities follow organizational policies and work closely with developers to ensure issues are fixed before releasing code to production. This candidate will have a strong development background and the ability to read and explain code deficiencies to stakeholders in various programming and scripting languages. Acts as a subject matter expert who uses expertise to resolve complex problems in consideration of established policies, guidelines or processes.

Weekend and night work may be needed at times based on project, support and business needs.

Reports to SMBC AD Head of Application Security.

Role Objectives: Delivery

• Strong ability to work with stakeholders and being able to explain code issues and fixes to development community.

• You will work very closely with developers on day-to-day basis to ensure all code in the environment is scanned and reported focusing on SAST, SCA, DAST, IAST and Container Security issues.

• Interface with development and security architecture teams on topics related to application security for example vulnerability remediation, best practices, threat modeling, etc.

• Interface with the vulnerability management team to ensure vulnerabilities identified are reported and validated according to SLA’s