If you're passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country-and you're committed to working hard to play your part in building that future-consider WGU as the next step in your career.
Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families.
The salary range for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.
At WGU, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is:
Grade: Technical 409
Pay Range: $127,700.00 - $191,500.00
Job Description
The Senior IT Security Analyst uses their knowledge of current security methods and standards to gather operational information and assess and analyst tools, systems, and processes in defense of applications, systems, and networks and collaborate with Infrastructure and business teams. The Senior IT Security Analyst is a lead support role for the IT Security team. They will provide mentorship, administrative service and support for monitoring systems, security breaches, providing investigative analysis and supporting incident response plans, security awareness, risk assessments, document review, vendor risk, vulnerability management and threat hunting. They will also engage in the support of other security focused tools and services and other duties as assigned. In addition, they may be asked to assist with risk assessments, forensics analysis, data collection, user training and other security related tasks.
About the Team
You'll collaborate on security-focused tools and services while helping shape security documentation and standards.
As a Senior Application Security Engineer, you will play a critical role in strengthening WGU's security posture by reviewing access requests, guiding vulnerability remediation, and contributing to security policies and standards. Your expertise will help ensure our applications and systems remain secure, resilient, and aligned with best practices.
You will safeguard systems and applications by identifying, analyzing, and mitigating security vulnerabilities throughout the full software development lifecycle (SDLC).
What You'll Do
Analyze source code to identify security flaws such as injection flaws and broken authentication.
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Oversee vulnerability scanning of applications and APIs.
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Perform threat modeling to identify potential attack vectors and security weaknesses during system design
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Perform architecture reviews and create security documentation for new projects
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Build, configure, and maintain application security tools (e.b., SAST, DAST, IAST, SCA) and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines
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Collaborate with engineering teams to prioritize and fix security vulnerabilities.
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Educate developers on secure coding practices... For full info follow application link.
Western Governors Univeristy is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the
basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other classification protected by federal, state or local law.
