Ardent is seeking an Application Security Engineer to join our team.
This is a remote position.
Position Description:
Ardent is seeking an Application Security Engineer to join the 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 security practices throughout the application lifecycle. The position also supports the development of proof-of-concept reference implementations and utility applications that demonstrate secure design patterns, integrate with DevSecOps tools, and help bridge process and technology gaps between development and security teams.
Responsibilities and Duties:
Perform application security testing and vulnerability assessments
Conduct application security testing using approved tools, processes, and techniques.
Assess web applications, APIs, services, containers, dependencies, and delivery environments for security weaknesses.
Support automated security scanning
Support automated scanning of applications, APIs, services, software dependencies, containers, and CI/CD pipelines.
Assist with configuring and maintaining security scanning tools used during development, build, test, release, and runtime activities.
Document, track, and validate vulnerabilities
Document, triage, track, and validate vulnerabilities and security findings through remediation and closure.
Maintain accurate vulnerability status, remediation evidence, and closure documentation.
Assist development teams with secure coding and remediation
Provide technical guidance to development teams on secure coding practices and remediation of identified weaknesses.
Help teams understand scan results, vulnerable dependency reports, policy violations, and recommended fixes.
Support DevSecOps tool integration and automation
Support integration and operation of security tools and controls within CI/CD pipelines.
Help implement automated security gates, policy enforcement, and reporting workflows.
Integrate DevSecOps tools through APIs to improve visibility, automation, and operational efficiency.
Develop proof-of-concept secure reference implementations
Design and develop proof-of-concept sample applications using common technology stacks to demonstrate application security best practices.
Build reference examples that illustrate secure authentication, authorization, logging, dependency management, secrets handling, containerization, API security, and secure CI/CD workflows.
Maintain reusable patterns and examples that development teams can reference when implementing security controls.
Ideate and develop security utility applications
Identify process and technology gaps between development and security teams.
Design and develop utility applications, scripts, dashboards, integrations, or automation workflows that improve vulnerability management, reporting, remediation tracking, tool interoperability, and DevSecOps operations.
Integrate with security, development, repository, observability, and CI/CD tools through available API interfaces.
Monitor compliance with application security standards
Monitor security findings and alignment with established application security standards and controls.
Support security improvement initiatives aligned to Zero Trust principles and applicable NIST, CISA, and CIS security frameworks.
Collect metrics, evidence, and reporting data
Collect and maintain security assessment data, scan results, vulnerability evidence, remediation status, and operational metrics.
Support reporting for continuous monitoring, vulnerability reduction, and application security improvement initiatives.
Support DevSecOps and vulnerability reduction…