Application Security Engineer — Automation & DevSecOps

001 The Northern Trust Company; Tempe (AZ); On-site; USD 70,000 - 112,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Trust is seeking an Application Security Engineer to help design, run, and improve technical capabilities across security platforms and developer workflows. This hands‑on role involves engineering, automation, and collaboration with software teams to standardize security patterns and improve delivery.

You will work across CI/CD, source control, cloud services, and enterprise platforms. Prior security experience is not required; a strong engineering foundation and curiosity are valued

Qualifications

• Hands‑on experience in software engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, systems integration, automation, security engineering, or a comparable technical discipline.
• Experience developing or integrating technology using APIs, scripting, software development, workflow technologies, automation, or comparable engineering methods.
• Experience working with source control, CI/CD, cloud services, developer tooling, enterprise platforms, or comparable software‑delivery technologies.

Responsibilities

• Configure, support, and improve Application Security platforms, integrations, automation, and technical workflows.
• Help integrate security capabilities with source control, CI/CD, developer, workflow, cloud, and enterprise technology platforms.
• Troubleshoot technical failures across platforms, integrations, APIs, pipelines, and related dependencies.
• Develop automation, scripts, integrations, documentation, and reusable technical patterns that reduce repetitive manual work and improve reliability.
• Partner with senior engineers, software‑development teams, technology partners, and vendors to improve Application Security delivery.

Skills

Software engineering

APIs

CI/CD

Cloud services

DevOps tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

GitHub

Checkmarx

ServiceNow

Cloud platforms

Job description

Northern Trust is seeking an Application Security Engineer to help design, run, and improve technical capabilities across security platforms and developer workflows. This hands‑on role involves engineering, automation, and collaboration with software teams to standardize security patterns and improve delivery.

You will work across CI/CD, source control, cloud services, and enterprise platforms. Prior security experience is not required; a strong engineering foundation and curiosity are valued