Application Security Engineer, Information Technology
Job Description
ServiceLink is hiring an Application Security Engineer for a hybrid role in Plano, TX (at least 3 days per week in-office). This position partners across security engineering, software development, and architecture to strengthen application defenses through practical vulnerability discovery, proactive research, and security controls that teams can rely on.
You'll help build a culture of security excellence by documenting guidance and training, defining metrics for control effectiveness, and driving improvements from architecture reviews through remediation. The salary range is $90,000 to $110,000 per year.
What You’ll Do
- Develop security documentation, training, and guidance for internal infrastructure and engineering teams
- Consult with teams to support architecture reviews, threat modeling, and system or infrastructure evaluations to identify vulnerabilities and weaknesses, then drive implementation of recommendations
- Perform penetration testing to examine target systems in detail and uncover vulnerabilities
- Conduct vulnerability research and analysis on emerging threats, including proactive research on technologies the team uses
- Identify and implement security technical and process improvements
- Define and own metrics to determine the effectiveness of security controls
- Apply comprehensive hardening to infrastructure platforms, deployment code, and images
- Architect, build, automate, and operate automated security controls/tools and review detection capabilities across applications and services
- Champion security culture and excellence, using risk-based judgment to prioritize remediation work
- Other duties as assigned
What You Bring
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or equivalent experience or education
- 5+ years in a hands-on security role with demonstrated mastery across multiple classes of security defects
- Demonstrated coding skills in one or more popular languages and platforms, including C#, SQL, Python, and others
- Experience with .NET Core
- Understanding of cloud computing platforms and cloud-based infrastructure design and operation
- Understanding of container technologies, security, and tooling such as Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
- Understanding of networking, routing, and web-related protocols
Tools and Technologies
Work involves C#, SQL, Python, .NET Core, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and Microsoft Azure.
Hybrid Work Requirements
This is a hybrid position requiring candidates to be located within reasonable commuting distance of the Plano, TX office and willing to work in-office on a regular basis (at least 3 days per week).
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Microsoft Azure
- Experience with container security platforms
- Continuous integration and delivery tooling (CI/CD)
- Current security certification (for example, OSCP or OSEE) is a PLUS