Cybersecurity Engineer

• **Remote but must be located in Irving, TX, Chicago, IL, Peoria, IL, or Broomfield, CO***

Required Skills for the Cybersecurity Engineer

• 5-7 years of hands-on application security/DevSecOps experience

• Secure SDLC, DevSecOps, Agile, and Scrum methodologies — strong working understanding

• Security tooling: Burp Suite, GitHub Advanced Security, CodeQL, SAST, SCA, secret scanning, dependency analysis, and CI/CD security tooling

• Ability to read, analyze, test, and modify production application code in Java, Python, to validate security findings and support remediation efforts

• OWASP Top 10, API Security Top 10, authentication/authorization controls, secure coding principles, and common attack techniques

• Cloud security, identity and access management, and modern application architectures

• Safe and effective use of AI-assisted development and security tools

• Vulnerability triage and validation — exploitability, business impact, severity, compensating controls, and remediation guidance

• Security metrics, coverage reporting, and executive dashboard development

• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, presentation, and documentation skills

• Ability to work independently across multiple applications, teams, portfolios, and technology stacks

• Strong problem-solving mindset — balances security, usability, operational impact, and business objectives

• Collaboration and influence — negotiates priorities and removes blockers with architects, developers, DevOps, product owners, and business stakeholders

• Coaching and knowledge sharing — champions a security-first culture

• Comfortable operating within Scrum/Agile delivery and managing own work items

Cybersecurity Engineer Responsibilities

• Embeds application security into the SDLC by defining and improving security processes, standards, workflows, and Definition of Done criteria used by delivery teams

• Performs AI-assisted and traditional security assessments of applications, APIs, cloud workloads, repositories, and supporting infrastructure

• Manages repository scanning coverage — source code analysis, secret scanning, dependency analysis, and infrastructure review — and triages findings by exploitability, business impact, and severity

• Drives remediation from discovery through verified closure, and reduces security debt, dependency vulnerabilities, and software supply chain exposure across the application portfolio

• Builds security metrics, coverage reporting, and executive dashboards that give leadership visibility into remediation status and security posture trends

• Champions a security-first culture through coaching, knowledge sharing, and documented best practices, helping application teams hit security objectives and ‘must-win’ business outcomes

Typical task breakdown

• Daily: review and triage new security findings from SAST, SCA, secret scanning, and dependency analysis; validate exploitability and prioritize by business impact

• Daily: manual validation and security testing using Burp Suite, browser developer tools, API testing platforms, and secure code review

• Daily/Weekly: drive remediation — create and groom backlog items, assign ownership, retest fixes, collect evidence, and verify closure

• Weekly: participate in Scrum ceremonies (stand-up, backlog refinement, sprint planning, review) and maintain Agile work items, user stories, tasks, and defects

• Weekly: partner with application teams on code fixes, configuration changes, infrastructure updates, and compensating controls

• Monthly/Ongoing: security assessments of applications, APIs, and cloud workloads; metrics, coverage reporting, and executive dashboards; process and standards improvement

• Ongoing: use AI tooling responsibly to accelerate analysis, threat modeling, code review, and documentation within governance controls; track emerging threats and AI-related security risks