Senior Application Security Engineer — Onsite in Ashburn, VA

Cybersecurity Jobs; Ashburn (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Best in class medical coverage

Paid time off and holidays

401k with company match

Training and certifications

Job summary

Cybersecurity Jobs is hiring a Senior Application Security Engineer to secure CBP application systems across the full software lifecycle. This onsite role based in Ashburn, VA focuses on security operations, lifecycle management, and risk-informed engineering.

You will produce security documentation for ISSOs and support ATO/ATT activities, conduct weekly impact assessments, enhance logging and SIEM integration, and contribute to continuous monitoring and change-control processes.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of relevant application security or security engineering experience.
• Experience leading application security operations and lifecycle management.
• Experience supporting ATO or ATT activities and risk decisions.
• Strong written and oral communication for technical coordination with ISSOs and Government leads.

Responsibilities

• Administer, configure, maintain, tune, and secure CBP application systems throughout the software lifecycle.
• Develop and maintain application operations and maintenance procedures and tuning guidance.
• Support ISSOs during ATO and ATT activities with required documentation.
• Conduct weekly application security impact assessments.
• Maintain continuous application monitoring with incident alerting and status reporting.
• Apply configuration management and change-control processes for baselines and deployments.
• Improve application logging and integrate with SIEM and vulnerability-management processes.

Skills

Security operations

Lifecycle management

Configuration control

Logging & monitoring

Vulnerability remediation

ATO/ATT support

Tools

SIEM

Job description

Cybersecurity Jobs is hiring a Senior Application Security Engineer to secure CBP application systems across the full software lifecycle. This onsite role based in Ashburn, VA focuses on security operations, lifecycle management, and risk-informed engineering.

You will produce security documentation for ISSOs and support ATO/ATT activities, conduct weekly impact assessments, enhance logging and SIEM integration, and contribute to continuous monitoring and change-control processes.