Vulnerability engineer / security tester - +5 years - contractor in usd

For our international customer, we are looking for a full-remote Vulnerability Engineer / Security Tester.

Candidates need to be flexible to work across time zones, including alignment with US Eastern Time where required. Candidates need to be fluent in English.

Tasks and responsibilities: Execute and support application vulnerability assessments (SAST, DAST, SCA, and manual code review), ensuring findings are accurate, actionable, and relevant to application risk; Validate scanner results, perform false-positive analysis, and track findings through remediation, including retesting to confirm effective fixes; Manage multiple application security initiatives concurrently while meeting strict timelines in a fast paced environment; Prioritize vulnerabilities based on business impact, exploitability, exposure, and likelihood, using industry best practices (e.g., CVSS scoring); Develop and maintain dashboards and reports tracking vulnerability metrics such as sev...