Application Security Enablement Engineer

The Asia CISO function is responsible for ensuring effective cybersecurity risk management, regulatory compliance, and secure technology enablement across all Asia markets. This role sits within the regional cybersecurity leadership team and is accountable for application security enablement across the software development lifecycle. It serves as the bridge between integral application security strategy and regional execution, driving outcomes through strong partnership and influence across application development, engineering, and architecture teams in both regional and market environments.

Deliver application security engineering and enablement capabilities across Asia, embedding secure development practices into the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and enabling adoption of enterprise security standards. This role focuses on driving vulnerability assessment, prioritization and remediation, centralized exception review, threat modeling, and SME support to strengthen application security posture.

Position Responsibilities




- Help drive adoption of enterprise application security standards across applications, platforms, and cloud environments
- Enable automation for vulnerability detection, remediation, exception review and reporting to improve efficiency and consistency.
- Provide actionable, risk-based technical guidance and training to developers on secure design and coding standards (e.g., OWASP).
- Partner with architects, product owners, and development teams during design and planning phases to embed secure-by-design principles.
- Conduct and validate application security testing (automated and manual), including intake and validation of findings from external penetration tests and bug bounty programs.

Accountabilities

Individual Accountabilities
- Support vulnerability management processes, including triage, exception review, remediation, and reporting.
- Conduct application and architecture-level Threat Modeli

📌 Application Security Enablement Engineer (Asia)
🏢 Manulife group
📍 Asia