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[Remote] Senior Application Security Engineer

Remote · South Africa Full-time

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. PTR Global is a leading financial services organization seeking an Application Security AI Engineer. This role involves application security engineering, AI-enabled security tooling, software supply chain security, and vulnerability management to protect enterprise applications and developer ecosystems.

Responsibilities

  • Provide application security triage across SCA, SAST, and DAST findings
  • Validate critical and high-risk vulnerabilities through exploitability analysis and false-positive review
  • Deliver remediation guidance and partner with development teams through issue resolution
  • Support threat intelligence escalations and critical patch events, including impact assessment, coordination, tracking, and closure
  • Research newly disclosed vulnerabilities and emerging threats, producing actionable remediation recommendations
  • Evaluate, test, and implement AI-powered application security tools that improve vulnerability detection, triage, and remediation workflows
  • Support the evaluation and adoption of AI security capabilities through proof-of-value testing, governance reviews, and security validation
  • Strengthen software supply chain security by securing open-source dependencies, SBOM visibility, malicious package detection, and dependency governance
  • Improve the security of developer environments, including IDEs, plugins, package managers, coding assistants, and CI/CD integrations
  • Automate security workflows using scripting, APIs, and security platform integrations

Skills

  • 3+ years of experience with Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
  • 3+ years of experience with Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
  • 3+ years of experience with Software Composition Analysis (SCA) and open-source dependency scanning
  • Experience managing high-severity application security findings from identification through remediation
  • Experience with scripting, automation, APIs, CI/CD pipelines, or security platform integrations
  • Familiarity with AI-enabled security tools, coding assistants, frontier models, prompt engineering, or AI governance processes
  • Experience securing software supply chains, open-source dependencies, developer tooling, and CI/CD environments
  • Strong understanding of application security principles and secure software development practices
  • Excellent analytical, communication, and collaboration skills
  • 3+ years of Code Scanning experience
  • 3+ years of Open Source (SCA) Scanning experience
  • 3+ years of Static and Dynamic Application Security Scanning (SAST/DAST)
  • Application Security
  • Vulnerability Management
  • Security Automation
  • AI-assisted vulnerability management
  • Software supply chain security
  • SBOM management
  • Threat intelligence
  • DevSecOps
  • Security automation
  • Cloud security
  • Vulnerability management platforms

Company Overview

  • PTR Global provides IT and professional staffing and workforce solutions for contingent and permanent roles across industries. It was founded in 1996, and is headquartered in , with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://www.ptrglobal.com.
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