Senior Manager - Application Security Research

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American Express
Full time
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USA
10/25/2026
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Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities

Lead and contribute to application security research, vulnerability discovery, reverse engineering, threat analysis, and mitigation across applications, software components, APIs, AI/ML, and emerging technologies.
Monitor application security systems and manage application security platforms, processes, policies, procedures, and standards.
Oversee vulnerability management, application security testing, remediation prioritization, security assessments, audits, and risk mitigation.
Plan and support event response, investigations, remediation, threat hunting, forensic analysis, malware analysis, and stakeholder communications.
Collaborate with the Fusion Center, Security Operations Center, Cyber Threat Intelligence, Incident Response, product, business, and engineering teams.
Develop reports, dashboards, documentation, training programs, playbooks, and operational improvements for application security.
Lead adoption of AI-enabled cybersecurity operations, threat intelligence, workflow automation, and prompt design while validating AI-generated outputs and maintaining governance.
Provide technical leadership, strategic recommendations, mentoring, coaching, and potentially resource, hiring, timeline, and budget oversight.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or comparable experience; an advanced degree is preferred.
Knowledge of regulatory compliance, security standards, Identity & Access Management, Security Architecture Management, Security Governance and Operations, Security Testing and Remediation, Cloud Security Management, and Data Privacy and Protection.
Experience in cybersecurity operations, application security, technical writing, and documentation development.
Experience with SCA, SAST, DAST, MAST, and API Security.
Experience with network security principles, including firewalls, VPNs, and network segmentation.
Experience with vulnerability scanning tools such as Nessus, Qualys, and Rapid7, plus remediation processes.
Experience with penetration testing tools such as Burp Suite, Wireshark, Metasploit, and SQLmap.
Experience with incident response, forensic analysis, malware analysis, and threat hunting.
Experience securing cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
Experience applying PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, NIST, and other regulatory requirements and standards.
Experience with Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery.
Knowledge of AI-enabled cybersecurity operations platforms, automated threat detection, AI-assisted security analytics, AI security risks, and responsible AI governance.
A security certification such as GCPN, GWEB, GMOB, GOAA, GPEN, GWAT, GXPN, GREM, CEH, C|ASE .NET, C|ASE Java, OSCP, OSWA, OSWE, or CSSLP is preferred.

Salary: $123k - $215k/yr

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