Remote Application Security Engineer - DevSecOps Impact

ArdentMC; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Flexible PTO

Federal holidays off

Tuition reimbursement

Professional development support

Wellness stipends

Job summary

Ardent is seeking an Application Security Engineer to join our team. The Application Security Engineer supports application security assessment, vulnerability management, DevSecOps enablement, and secure reference implementation activities across USCIS systems and delivery environments.

This role works closely with development, security, platform, and operations teams to identify application security risks, support remediation, validate fixes, improve security automation, and maintain consistent

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS/Cybersecurity/Engineering or related field.
• Minimum of 4 years IT experience plus 4 years in application security/DevSecOps.
• Advanced knowledge of application security technologies and environments.
• Experience with SAST, DAST, SCA, container scanning, and dependency security.
• Experience integrating security controls into CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience developing proof-of-concept apps and secure references.
• Background in vulnerability management workflows.

Responsibilities

• Perform application security testing and vulnerability assessments.
• Support automated security scanning in CI/CD pipelines.
• Document, triage, track, and validate vulnerabilities to closure.
• Provide secure coding guidance to development teams.
• Develop proof-of-concept secure reference implementations.
• Create utility apps and automation to improve security workflows.
• Monitor security standards and alignment with Zero Trust, NIST, CIS, OWASP.
• Collect metrics and reporting data for security programs.

Skills

Application security testing

Vulnerability assessment

DevSecOps

Security tooling guidance

CI/CD integration

Secure coding practices

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related field

Tools

SonarQube

Nexus IQ

Checkmarx

Twistlock

Job description

Ardent is seeking an Application Security Engineer to join our team. The Application Security Engineer supports application security assessment, vulnerability management, DevSecOps enablement, and secure reference implementation activities across USCIS systems and delivery environments.

This role works closely with development, security, platform, and operations teams to identify application security risks, support remediation, validate fixes, improve security automation, and maintain consistent