Senior Application Security Engineer DevSecOps and CICD

This is a remote position.

Job Title: Senior Application Security Engineer DevSecOps and CICD

Location: Remote, USA

Estimated Duration :12+ Months 

Experience Desired: Secure SDLC, DevSecOps, Agile, and Scrum methodologies (5-7 yrs); Security tooling (5-7 yrs); OWASP Top 10, API Security Top 10, authentication/authorization controls (5-7 yrs)

Required Minimum Education: Bachelor’s Degree

Preferred Education: Master’s Degree

Job Description

• ***Remote but must be located in Irving, TX, Chicago, IL, Peoria, IL, or Broomfield, CO***
  

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or a related field
  

Preferred Education:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or a related field
  

Required Skills for the Cybersecurity Engineer:

• -5-7 years of hands-on application security/DevSecOps experience
  
• - Secure SDLC, DevSecOps, Agile, and Scrum methodologies — strong working understanding
  
• - Security tooling: Burp Suite, GitHub Advanced Security, CodeQL, SAST, SCA, secret scanning, dependency analysis, and CI/CD security tooling
  
• - Ability to read, analyze, test, and modify production application code in Java, Python, to validate security findings and support remediation efforts
  
• - OWASP Top 10, API Security Top 10, authentication/authorization controls, secure coding principles, and common attack techniques
  
• - Cloud security, identity and access management, and modern application architectures
  
• - Safe and effective use of AI-assisted development and security tools
  
• - Vulnerability triage and validation — exploitability, business impact, severity, compensating controls, and remediation guidance
  
• - Security metrics, coverage reporting, and executive dashboard development
  
• - Excellent communication, stakeholder management, presentation, and documentation skills
  
• - Ability to work independently across multiple applications, teams, portfolios, and technology stacks
  
• - Strong problem-solving mindset — balances security, usability, operational impact, and business objectives
  
• - Collaboration and influence — negotiates priorities and removes blockers with architects, developers, DevOps, product owners, and business stakeholders
  
• - Coaching and knowledge sharing — champions a security-first culture
  
• - Comfortable operating within Scrum/Agile delivery and managing own work items
  

Cybersecurity Engineer Responsibilities:

• - Embeds application security into the SDLC by defining and improving security processes, standards, workflows, and Definition of Done criteria used by delivery teams
  
• - Performs AI-assisted and traditional security assessments of applications, APIs, cloud workloads, repositories, and supporting infrastructure
  
• - Manages repository scanning coverage — source code analysis, secret scanning, dependency analysis, and infrastructure review — and triages findings by exploitability, business impact, and severity
  
• - Drives remediation from discovery through verified closure, and reduces security debt, dependency vulnerabilities, and software supply chain exposure across the application portfolio
  
• - Builds security metrics, coverage reporting, and executive dashboards that give leadership visibility into remediation status and security posture trends
  
• - Champions a security-first culture through coaching, knowledge sharing, and documented best practices, helping application teams hit security objectives and ‘must-win’ business outcomes
  

Typical task breakdown:

• Daily: review and triage new security findings from SAST, SCA, secret scanning, and dependency analysis; validate exploitability and prioritize by business impact
  
• Daily: manual validation and security testing using Burp Suite, browser developer tools, API testing platforms, and secure code review
  
• Daily/Weekly: drive remediation — create and groom backlog items, assign ownership, retest fixes, collect evidence, and verify closure
  
• Weekly: participate in Scrum ceremonies (stand-up, backlog refinement, sprint planning, review) and maintain Agile work items, user stories, tasks, and defects
  
• Weekly: partner with application teams on code fixes, configuration changes, infrastructure updates, and compensating controls
  
• Monthly/Ongoing: security assessments of applications, APIs, and cloud workloads; metrics, coverage reporting, and executive dashboards; process and standards improvement
  
• Ongoing: use AI tooling responsibly to accelerate analysis, threat modeling, code review, and documentation within governance controls; track emerging threats and AI-related security risks find value in our e-mail notifications as you continue to consider options for your professional career.