Lead AppSec Engineer

Gartner•Stamford, CT

1d•$116,000 - $170,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Lead AppSec Engineer supports Gartner’s Application Security function. The role carries out vulnerability assessment activities, partners with Information Security and technology stakeholders to identify risks and vulnerabilities, and coordinates remediation across business units. It also helps implement security tools, technologies, and controls that balance security with business needs and user experience; provides education and training; and develops automation or security-tool integrations to support day-to-day AppSec work. The engineer works with business stakeholders to design and assess secure applications, mentor engineers and security champions in threat modeling, and triage and prioritize risks in line with business impact and risk tolerance. The role manages security technologies and platforms, oversees security risk lifecycle activities, creates actionable reporting, and defines metrics such as KRIs and security scorecards. As an Application Security subject-matter expert, the engineer is a contact for critical issues, risk assessments, and CI/CD issue triage, using data to identify systemic issues and inform security roadmap decisions. The position is hybrid, based near Gartner’s Irving, Texas or Stamford, Connecticut Centers of Excellence. Gartner describes its culture as collaborative, inclusive, and focused on innovation, professional growth, and impact. The role offers competitive compensation and a broad range of benefits and development opportunities.

Requirements

At least 7 years of experience in a Security Engineering role, with proven experience in DevSecOps, Cloud Security, and Application Security.
Experience using vulnerability scanning technologies, AST platforms, and cloud security tooling.
Formal experience with threat modeling.
Experience leading projects, initiatives, and resources through direct and indirect leadership.
Deep knowledge of risk assessment and prioritization, including the ability to think like an attacker and apply that perspective to threat models.
Cloud experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Policy as Code (PaC) concepts.
Proven communication, collaboration, and critical-thinking skills.
Ability to build trusting, meaningful relationships with peers, stakeholders, partners, and suppliers.
Ability to communicate risk in business-relevant language to technical and non-technical audiences.
Ability to apply expert knowledge to solve complex business and technical issues strategically.
Desire for lifelong learning and continuous personal and professional development.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with technical security controls, guidelines, and frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001/27013, and NIST 800-53.
Ability to automate tasks and code solutions to repetitive problems.
Scripting or programming experience with Java, .NET, HTML, Ruby, PHP, Perl, C#, Python, JavaScript, PowerShell, or Bash.
Experience with penetration testing and web application assessment.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with business stakeholders to design secure applications, test applications for security weaknesses, and partner on remediation of identified issues.
Mentor engineers and security champions on practical threat modeling techniques.
Triage and prioritize security risks, vulnerabilities, and exceptions in alignment with business impact and risk tolerance.
Coordinate the orchestration, automation, and management of security technologies and platforms.
Own day-to-day security lifecycle management, including identification, threat assessment, threat modeling, and risk avoidance.
Create reasonable and actionable reports showing direct impact to the security posture.
Define and implement meaningful metrics to measure security-control effectiveness through KRIs and security scorecards.
Serve as an Application Security subject-matter expert and first point of contact for critical issues, security risk assessments, and CI/CD issue triage with partners and stakeholders.
Evaluate business and technical requirements to identify and implement tools, processes, and technologies that improve security posture.
Use data to drive prioritization, highlight systemic issues, and influence roadmap decisions.
Execute vulnerability assessment functions and collaborate with Information Security partners and technology stakeholders on risk identification and remediation.
Provide education and training, and engineer automation solutions or security-tool integrations for day-to-day AppSec responsibilities.

Benefits

Competitive compensation and an annual bonus plan or role-based sales incentive plan, as applicable.
Limitless growth and learning opportunities, including mentorship, apprenticeship, leadership and development programs, technical courses, and certification opportunities.
Hybrid work flexibility, including working from home and collaborating in offices.
20+ PTO days, holidays, and floating holidays in the first year.
Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
401(k) with corporate match and immediate vesting; the posting also notes a match of up to $7,200 per year.
Health-and-wellness-related allowance programs.
Parental leave.
Tuition reimbursement.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan, including the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount.
Employee Assistance Program.
Gartner Gives Charity Match.