Senior Application Security Analyst

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company; Bismarck (ND); On-site; USD 85,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

ASM Research, an Accenture Federal Services Company, seeks a Security Analyst to integrate application security throughout the SDLC for enterprise and mission-critical systems. You will collaborate with software engineering, architecture, DevOps, operations, and client stakeholders to translate security requirements into practical design, development, testing, deployment, and remediation activities.

The role conducts security architecture and design reviews, vulnerability assessments, threat

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Typically 5–10 years of progressively responsible experience in application security or related cybersecurity.
• Experience applying secure SDLC practices, including threat modeling, architecture reviews, secure design patterns, and security acceptance criteria.
• Experience assessing web apps, APIs, services, cloud workloads, and supporting infrastructure for vulnerabilities and risks.
• Ability to interpret and communicate findings from security testing, vulnerability scanning, dependency analysis, and penetration testing.
• Strong risk triage, remediation tracking, and verification of corrective actions.
• U.S. citizenship required with ability to obtain a Public Trust background investigation.

Responsibilities

• Integrate application security requirements, secure design practices, and security acceptance criteria across SDLC phases.
• Conduct and support security architecture reviews, threat modeling, and vulnerability assessments for web apps, APIs, cloud workloads, services, and infrastructure.
• Analyze findings from static/dynamic analysis, software composition analysis, dependency and secrets scanning, container scanning, and pentesting to determine risk and remediation priority.
• Partner with development, DevOps, architecture, and operations to identify risks and provide actionable mitigation recommendations.
• Perform or support secure code reviews and assess auth weaknesses, insecure configurations, secrets exposure, and other security gaps.
• Track vulnerabilities and corrective actions through remediation and retesting to confirm risk reduction.
• Develop and maintain security procedures, standards, assessment reports, and risk communications for informed authorization and decisions.
• Evaluate application-security tools for coverage, integration feasibility, and CI/CD workflow compatibility.

Skills

Application security

Threat modeling

Secure SDLC

Vulnerability management

Security testing

Risk communication

Remediation tracking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field

Job description

ASM Research, an Accenture Federal Services Company, seeks a Security Analyst to integrate application security throughout the SDLC for enterprise and mission-critical systems. You will collaborate with software engineering, architecture, DevOps, operations, and client stakeholders to translate security requirements into practical design, development, testing, deployment, and remediation activities.

The role conducts security architecture and design reviews, vulnerability assessments, threat