Hybrid App Security Engineer | Contract-to-Hire

LinQ Global Group; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

LinQ Global Group seeks an Application Security Engineer to lead the security model across a decentralized product engineering organization undergoing cloud modernization. You will design risk-tiering, integrate security gates into CI/CD, and guide secure coding practices.

This role focuses on threat modeling, secure authentication, container security, and collaboration with developers to remediate findings while building a Security Champions network across distributed teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in CS/Info Security.
• 4+ years of combined software, cloud, or AppSec experience with hands-on security.
• Experience translating threat modeling findings into developer tasks.
• Knowledge of OWASP Top 10/ASVS and modern web attack patterns.

Responsibilities

• Catalog applications, pipelines, repos, and security tools to establish baseline.
• Create and deploy a risk-tiering framework prioritizing high-risk apps.
• Define and socialize a minimum AppSec baseline across engineering leads.
• Build and lead a Security Champions network across teams.

Skills

Threat modeling

Security architecture

Communicating risk

Security strategy

Cloud security

Vulnerability assessment

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or Information Security

Tools

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

LinQ Global Group seeks an Application Security Engineer to lead the security model across a decentralized product engineering organization undergoing cloud modernization. You will design risk-tiering, integrate security gates into CI/CD, and guide secure coding practices.

This role focuses on threat modeling, secure authentication, container security, and collaboration with developers to remediate findings while building a Security Champions network across distributed teams.