Application Security Manager

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking an experienced Application Security Manager to join their team in Bengaluru, India.

The successful candidate will lead and develop a growing team of 5–7 senior application security engineers.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead day-to-day team operations, including sprint planning, workload prioritization, and vendor coordination.
• Provide technical direction and guidance to engineers, reviewing triage decisions and remediation guidance.
• Define team processes, runbooks, and RACI to ensure scalability.
• Build and mature a scalable Application Security operating model with clear ownership and measurable outcomes.
• Establish strong working relationships with application owners and engineering leads.
• Drive adoption of security controls and negotiate practical, risk-based remediation timelines.
• Oversee the team's operation of static application security testing (SAST), software composition analysis (SCA), secret scanning, and dynamic application security testing (DAST).
• Drive the threat modeling program and establish risk-based vulnerability management SLAs.
• Lead web application and API protection (WAAP) onboarding and operations.
• Ensure effective management of policy tuning, false positives, and incident support.
• Oversee CI/CD security controls, open-source supply chain risk management, and SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM).
• Help stand up AI/LLM security practices.

Requirements:

• 12+ years in information security, with at least 5 years focused on application security.
• 4+ years managing security engineers.
• Strong technical depth across SAST, SCA, DAST, and secret scanning.
• Strong understanding of web and API vulnerabilities and how they are remediated in code.
• Experience overseeing WAF/WAAP operations in production.
• Proven ability to build trusted relationships with application owners and influence engineering teams.
• Experience working effectively with globally distributed teams and stakeholders.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive suite of benefits supporting physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.
• Investment in career development and growth.
• Unconditional inclusion and flexible work arrangements.