Remote Application Security Engineer — Mission Systems

Rackner; Maryland; Hybrid; EUR 97,000 - 141,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Company-supported certifications

401(k) with 100% company match up to 6

Medical, dental, vision, life, and dis

Paid time off and company holidays

Remote-work support and home-office eq

Fitness and wellness reimbursement

Weekly pay schedule

Professional-development and future成长

Job summary

Rackner is seeking an Application Security Engineer to strengthen secure software supporting DoD planning and decision-support missions. This remote role includes periodic onsite sessions in Laurel, Maryland, with active final DoD Secret clearance required.

You will work closely with software, AI/ML, and platform teams to integrate security into development from planning through release, focusing on meaningful risk reduction and secure delivery across the software lifecycle.

Qualifications

• At least six years of experience involving cyber resilience, SAST, DAST, and software-vulnerability remediation.
• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity.
• Hands-on experience identifying, evaluating, and helping resolve application-security vulnerabilities.
• Experience working directly with software-development teams to improve secure delivery.
• Understanding of secure software-development lifecycle practices and software supply-chain security.
• Ability to explain technical security findings clearly to developers and technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Conduct and support static and dynamic application-security testing.
• Use and support automated security scanning with Fortify, X-Ray, OWASP ZAP, and related tools.
• Review findings, identify actionable vulnerabilities, and help distinguish meaningful risks from false positives.
• Work with software engineers to understand root causes, support remediation, and verify that fixes address identified vulnerabilities.
• Help integrate security testing into secure CI/CD and Git-based development workflows.
• Strengthen software supply-chain security throughout the development and delivery process.
• Apply secure software-development and cyber-resilience practices in an environment using GitLab, Artifactory, OpenShift, and Kubernetes.
• Contribute to technical reviews, code-review findings, security-remediation reports, and software testing.
• Help ensure software meets applicable functional, coding, and security requirements before release.

Skills

cyber resilience

SAST

DAST

vulnerability remediation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity

Tools

Fortify

X-Ray

OWASP ZAP

GitLab

Artifactory

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Job description

Rackner is seeking an Application Security Engineer to strengthen secure software supporting DoD planning and decision-support missions. This remote role includes periodic onsite sessions in Laurel, Maryland, with active final DoD Secret clearance required.

You will work closely with software, AI/ML, and platform teams to integrate security into development from planning through release, focusing on meaningful risk reduction and secure delivery across the software lifecycle.