Lead App Security Engineer - Automation & DevSecOps

001 The Northern Trust Company; Tempe (AZ); On-site; USD 95,000 - 161,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Trust is seeking a Senior Application Security Engineer to engineer and improve security platforms, automate workflows, and lead integrations across CI/CD, cloud, and enterprise tech. You will collaborate with engineering teams, partners, and vendors to enhance security delivery and observability in complex environments.

The role requires hands-on expertise in DevSecOps, software delivery, and infrastructure security, with a strong background in APIs, scripting, and automation.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience engineering, integrating, or supporting complex enterprise software, platform, infrastructure, DevSecOps, security engineering, or comparable technical capabilities.
• Experience building integrations or automation using APIs, scripting, workflow technologies, software development, or comparable engineering methods.
• Experience solving complex technical problems across CI/CD, source control, developer tooling, cloud services, enterprise platforms, or comparable software-delivery environments.
• Eight or more years of relevant professional experience in software engineering, platform engineering, DevSecOps, infrastructure engineering, security engineering, systems integration, or a related technical discipline.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and improve Application Security platforms, integrations, automation, and technical workflows.
• Design and enhance integrations across source control, CI/CD, security, cloud, workflow, and enterprise technology platforms.
• Troubleshoot complex technical failures and improve capability reliability, observability, recovery, and scalability.
• Automate repeatable technical work as workflows become sufficiently understood, while developing reusable engineering patterns and technical documentation.
• Provide hands‑on technical leadership and partner with engineering teams, technology partners, and vendors to improve Application Security delivery.

Skills

DevSecOps

Enterprise software

APIs

Scripting

Automation

CI/CD

Source control

Cloud services

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity, or related discipline

Tools

GitHub

Checkmarx

ServiceNow

Cloud technologies

Job description

Northern Trust is seeking a Senior Application Security Engineer to engineer and improve security platforms, automate workflows, and lead integrations across CI/CD, cloud, and enterprise tech. You will collaborate with engineering teams, partners, and vendors to enhance security delivery and observability in complex environments.

The role requires hands-on expertise in DevSecOps, software delivery, and infrastructure security, with a strong background in APIs, scripting, and automation.