Vulnerability Management Engineer – Application Security | Valencia

Location: Valencia, Spain

Work model: On-site Valencia

Experience: 5–7 years in Application Security and/or Vulnerability Management

Position: Full-time

Contract: B2B / Freelance

Languages: English & Spanish

Summary:

We're looking for a Vulnerability Management Engineer – Application Security to identify, assess, prioritize, and support the remediation of application vulnerabilities throughout the software development lifecycle. You'll work across web, mobile, and cloud-based applications, leveraging vulnerability scanning, manual security testing, automation, and risk-based prioritization to strengthen the organization's security posture.

Key Responsibilities:

- Execute and support application vulnerability assessments using SAST, DAST, SCA, and manual security testing.
- Validate scanner findings, perform false-positive analysis, and track vulnerabilities through remediation and retesting.
- Prioritize vulnerabilities based on business impact, exploitability, exposure, and likelihood, using frameworks such as CVSS.
- Manage multiple application security initiatives while meeting remediation timelines and SLAs.
- Develop dashboards and reports covering vulnerability severity, remediation SLAs, and MTTR.
- Support the integration of security scanning and vulnerability management workflows into CI/CD pipelines.
- Provide actionable remediation recommendations and coordinate root cause analysis with development teams.
- Support threat modeling and application risk assessments, identifying insecure design patterns.




- Participate in high-severity and zero-day vulnerability response activities.
- Contribute to application and cloud security policies, standards, and security controls.

Required Technical Skills:

Application Security & Vulnerability Management

- Strong understanding of OWASP Top 10, common vulnerability classes, secure architecture, and application security principles.
- Hands-on experience with SAST, DAST, SCA, vulnerability assessment, and remediation processes.
- Experience prioritizing vulnerabilities using CVSS and risk-based methodologies.

Security Testing & Tools

- Strong hands-on experience with Burp Suite for web application and API security testing.
- Experience with tools such as Fortify, Checkmarx, SonarQube, Black Duck, Tenable, and Nmap.
- Ability to identify complex authentication, authorization, and business-logic vulnerabilities.

Automation, Cloud & Security Frameworks

- Programming/scripting experience with Python, Java, .NET, or similar technologies.
- Experience integrating security tools into CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with NIST, MITRE ATT&CK;, and CIS Benchmarks.
- Experience with Azure and Azure DevOps is a plus.
- Experience with ServiceNow and vulnerability tracking is desirable.
- Knowledge of Power BI or similar tools for vulnerability metrics and reporting is a plus.

If you're passionate about Application Security, vulnerability management, and building secure software environments, we'd love to hear from you.

Send your CV in English to with reference "MA/Vuln" or just apply to this opportunity.

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