Application Security Engineer — Secure Mission Systems

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**Application Security Engineer — Secure Mission Systems** **Location:** Mainly remote, with onsite work in Laurel, Maryland, typically one day approximately every six weeks for team-wide sprint planning **Clearance:** Active final DoD Secret clearance required This position supports a pending contract opportunity and is contingent upon contract award, with an anticipated start in November 2026. **Build Security into Mission-Critical Software** At Rackner, you will help strengthen secure software supporting high-impact Department of Defense planning and decision-support missions. This is a hands-on application-security role where you can influence how security is built into software from development through release. You will work closely with software engineers, AI/ML engineers, platform teams, DevSecOps professionals, and customer technical leads to identify meaningful risks, support vulnerability remediation, and strengthen secure-development practices. Your work will go beyond running scanners or delivering reports. You will help teams understand security findings, separate actionable risks from false positives, verify fixes, improve software supply-chain security, and deliver resilient software with greater confidence. **You will:** - Integrate application-security testing throughout the software-development lifecycle. - Conduct and support static application-security testing using Fortify. - Conduct and support dynamic application-security testing using OWASP ZAP. - Support software-composition analysis and software supply-chain security using JFrog Xray. - Review and triage security findings, identify actionable vulnerabilities, and distinguish meaningful risks from false positives. - Work directly with software engineers to understand root causes, support remediation, and verify completed fixes. - Integrate automated security scanning into secure CI/CD and GitLab-based development workflows. - Strengthen dependency-management and software supply-chain controls throughout development and delivery. - Support application security within environments using GitLab, Artifactory, OpenShift, and Kubernetes. - Contribute to technical reviews, code reviews, software testing, and security-remediation activities. - Produce clear vulnerability findings, remediation reports, code-review observations, and technical documentation. - Support verification that software meets applicable functional, coding, and security requirements before release. - Collaborate with software, AI/ML, platform, DevSecOps, and customer technical teams. **What You’ll Bring** - Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity. - At least six years of experience involving cyber resilience, SAST, DAST, and software-vulnerability remediation. - Hands-on experience with Fortify, JFrog Xray, and OWASP ZAP. - Identifying, evaluating, triaging, and supporting remediation of application-security vulnerabilities. - Working directly with software-development teams to resolve security findings. - Experience with software supply-chain security, dependency risk, or software-composition analysis. - Understanding of secure software-development lifecycle practices. - Integrating automated security scanning into software-development or CI/CD workflows. - Ability to clearly document technical findings and communicate them to developers and technical stakeholders. **Experience That Can Strengthen Your Fit** Experience with several of the following can improve alignment: - GitLab-based development and CI/CD workflows. - Artifactory or similar artifact-management platforms. - OpenShift, Kubernetes, and containerized application environments. - Additional SAST, DAST, dependency-scanning, or software-composition-analysis tools. - Secure-code review and remediation verification. - Application-security testing in disconnected, restricted, or customer-managed environments. - Supporting classified, defense, aerospace, government, or other regulated software environments. - Collaboration across application security, software engineering, platform, DevSecOps, and AI/ML teams. You do not need equal depth in every area, but your background should include direct experience with the named application-security tools and workflows. **Why Rackner** At Rackner, you will have the opportunity to protect technology supporting critical defense and public-sector missions. You will work on more than isolated scan execution or vulnerability reports. This role combines hands-on application-security testing, vulnerability analysis, remediation verification, software supply-chain security, and close collaboration across software, AI/ML, platform, and mission-focused teams. Rackner has delivered more than $30 million in recent federal awards and supports mission-critical work across defense, civilian, and public-sector environments. We are looking for an application-security engineer who can build on that momentum by strengthening secure delivery, helping teams resolve vulnerabilities, and improving confidence in the software reaching mission users. **Benefits & Professional Growth** - Competitive compensation - Company-supported certifications aligned with current and future program work - 401(k) with 100% company match up to 6% - Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage - Paid time off and company holidays - Remote-work support and home-office equipment plan - Fitness and wellness reimbursement - Weekly pay schedule - Professional-development and future growth opportunities **Apply** If you are an application-security professional who wants broader influence across secure development, automated security testing, vulnerability remediation, and software supply-chain security, we would like to hear from you.