Accenture Looking for Jr Analyst, Application Security at Mississauga, ON Full Time

Join Accenture and help transform leading organizations and communities around the world. The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate & deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance. Choose Accenture, and make delivering innovative work part of your extraordinary career

Accenture people build careers in four different areas of our business: Consulting, Technology, Outsourcing and internal Corporate Functions. Each area offers a unique career experience and a compelling mix of work and training opportunities, work environment and structure for career progression.

People in our Technology, Client & Market career track drive profitable growth by developing market-relevant insights to increase market share or create new markets. They progress through required promotion into market-facing roles that have a direct impact on sales.

Why join Accenture’s security practice?

Serving as a trusted security partner for more than 20 years to more than 330 clients across ~70 countries, Accenture’s security practice helps organizations build resilience from the inside out so they can operate and grow confidently in a rapidly evolving threat landscape. Our 7000 security professionals bring exceptional industry expertise to tailor intelligent security services to our clients’ unique businesses and industries. We provide a full spectrum of services – from security strategy development, to business transformation to managed security services – on demand and at a global scale.

Leveraging our global resources and next-generation technologies, we create an integrated, comprehensive program tailored to each organization’s specific business goals and industry. Recognizing that there is no finish line in securing enterprises, we are constantly collaborating at our global cyber labs and centers with our broad, interdisciplinary innovation ecosystem of the best minds in security. Our focus on continuous innovation gives us a front lines perspective that ensures we are adapting to match the pace of security challenges.

Accenture’s unique ability to combine deep Security expertise across Strategy, Technology and Operations means that it can offer clients an enterprise-wide security program to predict, protect, detect, and respond to threats in an industry specific context.

Does DevSecOps sound like an interesting area to work in? Does injecting security into a software development lifecycle and learning secure coding sound fun? Are you curious about software supply chain and vulnerability management?

If so, read on and apply. Accenture’s more than 2,000 security professionals deliver holistic and proactive security solutions in 47 countries, and we’d love to discuss our open Application Security Analyst role with you.

Job Qualification:
Minimum 1 year of experience delivering application security projects/services or equivalent industry experience in related fields such as software engineering/programming, cloud, quality assurance, etc.

Understand basic software development concepts and tooling (typical SDLC, IDEs, pipelines, code repositories, etc)

Familiar with basic risk management concepts (e.g. risk and vulnerability ratings, activities in a typical threat-risk assessment, impact/likelihood, etc)

Can read/write code in at least one programming/scripting language and open to learning more

Understanding of basic application security vulnerabilities (e.g. OWASP Top 10)

Strong presentation, speaking, collaboration, and writing skills

Curious, self-motivated, life-long learner, empathetic, collaborative, comfortable with uncertainty.

Willing to obtain Canadian federal Reliability security clearance (via a 5-year background check)

Preferred (Bonus) qualifications:
Bachelors’ degree in Computer science, CIS/MIS, engineering, information security, or related

Prior experience with threat modelling, performing DAST/SAST/SCA scans or pen-tests, standing up and configuring appsec tools, and/or integrating tools into a development pipeline

Basic proficiency with/understanding of GCP, AWS, or Azure

Basic understanding of agile/devops methods

Understand basic networking concepts (e.g. DNS, LANs/WANs/VLANs, common protocols like HTTP(s), etc)

French language proficiency