Application Security Manager

Application Security Manager

This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.Who We Are

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description

About Our Cybersecurity Team

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Are you ready to make an impact at one of the world's leading technology companies? HPE's Cybersecurity team is where you can do just that. We're looking for a dynamic and experienced Application Security Manager to join our team. If you're passionate about shaping the future of cybersecurity and ready for your next challenge, we'd love to hear from you.

About the Role

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We're building a modern, enterprise Application Security program, and we're looking for a Manager to lead the engineers who run it day to day. This is a build-and-scale leadership role: the team is new, the strategy is set, and the toolchain is in place or rolling out. You'll turn that foundation into a high-performing team and a repeatable operating rhythm across Secure SDLC, web application and API protection, CI/CD pipeline security, SaaS security, and the emerging discipline of AI/LLM security.

Application security engineers will run the tools and do the technical work; you'll bring the technical depth to guide their decisions, review their approach, unblock them, and hold a high-quality bar. You'll work as one team with the US-based Application Security team, and partner closely with application owners, IT, and engineering teams to translate risk into outcomes developers adopt, so applications are secure by default.

What you’ll do

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• Lead and develop a growing team of 5–7 senior application security engineers based in Bangalore, India
• Hire, onboard, and develop a team of application security engineers; set clear goals, career paths, and a culture of ownership and technical excellence.
• Run day-to-day team operations: sprint planning, workload prioritization, on-call/escalation coverage, and vendor coordination.
• Provide technical direction and guidance to engineers: review triage decisions, tuning approaches, and remediation guidance, and step in on complex or escalated issues.
• Define team processes, runbooks, and RACI so work scales beyond individuals.
• Build and mature a scalable Application Security operating model with clear ownership, repeatable processes, measurable outcomes, and effective handoffs across Application Security, application owners, IT, and engineering teams.
• Work as an extension of the Application Security team, on aligning priorities, roadmap execution, standards, and shared operating processes across time zones.
• Establish strong working relationships with application owners and engineering leads
• Drive adoption of security controls by understanding application owners' delivery constraints and negotiating practical, risk-based remediation timelines.
• Manage the risk exception process with application owners, ensuring exceptions are documented, time-bound, and tracked.
• Oversee the team's operation of static application security testing (SAST), software composition analysis (SCA), secret scanning, and dynamic application security testing (DAST) across the application portfolio, ensuring effective tuning, triage, and developer enablement.
• Drive the threat modeling program, starting with business-critical, internet-facing applications handling Restricted or PII data.
• Establish and enforce risk-based vulnerability management SLAs aligned to application criticality tiers, and track remediation with application owners.
• Lead web application and API protection (WAAP) onboarding and operations across a large footprint of internet-facing applications using a phased, ring-based rollout, coordinating schedules and change windows with application owners.
• Ensure the team effectively manages policy tuning, false positives, origin protection, and incident support for web and API attacks.
• Oversee CI/CD security controls: pipeline hardening, secrets management, artifact integrity, and guardrails that don't slow delivery.
• Oversee open-source supply chain risk management, including malicious package detection and trusted package curation.
• Manage the SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) program for critical SaaS platforms, including coordination with managed service partners.
• Help stand up AI/LLM security practices: secure design guidance for AI-enabled applications, testing for prompt injection and data leakage, and governance for AI development tooling.
• Define and report program KPIs (coverage, mean time to remediate, risk burndown, adoption) to the Director and executive stakeholders.

First-Year Success Measures

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• Build, onboard, and establish clear goals and career paths for a high-performing Application Security team.
• Establish and operationalize risk-based remediation SLAs across application criticality tiers.
• Meet agreed SAST, SCA, secret-scanning, and DAST coverage targets for business-critical applications.
• Complete and operationalize threat models for prioritized internet-facing applications handling Restricted or PII data.
• Complete agreed phases of WAAP onboarding across prioritized application portfolios.
• Establish executive K