Business Analyst Application Security (SAST/SCA)

Act as the bridge between the
cybersecurity team, engineering/DevOps teams, and the SME/AI Expert on this
initiative, translating the business need (“introduce SAST and SCA across
GitLab SaaS and GitLab On-Prem”) into a structured requirements, rollout, and
governance framework. This requires enough working knowledge of AppSec scanning
concepts and GitLab's CI/CD model to write requirements an engineer or vendor
can act on without a long clarification loop.

Key Responsibilities

•        Run discovery across engineering, platform, and
security stakeholders to map current-state SDLC, GitLab topology (SaaS
groups/projects vs. Self-Managed instances), CI/CD pipeline patterns, and
existing scanning tools (if any) across the telco's project portfolio.

•        Document functional and non-functional requirements
for SAST and SCA (dependency scanning) coverage — language/framework coverage,
false-positive tolerance, scan performance/pipeline latency impact, and whether
secrets/container scanning are in scope.

•        Produce a build-vs-buy / tool-selection matrix
comparing GitLab-native SAST/SCA (Free/Premium/Ultimate tiering) against
third-party SAST/SCA tools, and identify where GitLab On-Prem version
constraints affect feature availability versus SaaS.

•        Define the vulnerability management workflow: finding
→ triage → issue → remediation MR → SLA tracking, and how this maps into
GitLab's vulnerability management dashboard versus existing ITSM/ticketing
tools.

•        Write user stories/acceptance criteria for pipeline
integration, exception/waiver processes, developer notification flows, and
reporting/dashboards for CISO-level visibility.

•        Own the RAID log, stakeholder RACI, and rollout
sequencing plan (pilot teams → phased fleet-wide rollout across SaaS and
On-Prem estates).

•        Support change management: developer communication,
training material coordination, and adoption metrics (scan coverage %, MTTR on
findings, false-positive rate trend).

•        Liaise directly with the SME and AI Expert roles to
ensure requirements reflect real tool capability and constraints rather than
assumptions.

Experience Level

Mid-to-Senior, 6–10 years
total BA experience, with at least 2–3 years specifically in cybersecurity,
DevSecOps, or platform engineering programmes. Telco or large regulated-enterprise
experience is a strong plus given data governance and change-control overhead.

Requirements

Required Knowledge & Skills

•        Working understanding of SAST vs. SCA vs. DAST vs.
secrets detection — what each catches and doesn't.

•        Familiarity with GitLab CI/CD concepts (pipelines,
merge requests, .gitlab-ci.yml) — doesn't need to write pipeline code, but must
read and reason about one.

•        Understanding of GitLab licensing tiers
(Free/Premium/Ultimate) and how SAST/SCA feature availability differs across
them.

•        Vulnerability management lifecycle and common
frameworks (CVSS scoring, CWE, OWASP Top 10) at working-fluency level, not
expert depth.

•        Experience writing requirements/user stories for
tooling or platform rollouts (not just business-process BA work).

•        Strong stakeholder facilitation skills — this
programme spans security, engineering, and platform teams who often have
competing priorities.

•        Comfortable working with technical SMEs to validate
feasibility rather than dictating requirements in isolation.