Application Security Engineer - Northeast region

About the role

GuidePoint Security provides trusted cybersecurity expertise, solutions and services that help organizations make better decisions and minimize risk. By taking a three-tiered, holistic approach for evaluating security posture and ecosystems, GuidePoint enables some of the nation’s top organizations, such as Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies, to identify threats, optimize resources and integrate best-fit solutions that mitigate risk.

General Description

We are looking for a skilled Application Security Engineer to support the Northeast Application Security practice in delivering application security engineering services to clients, including the implementation, operationalization, and tuning of SAST tooling, integration of security controls into CI/CD pipelines, and adoption of secure development practices across the SDLC. This role will engage in the development of automated security testing capabilities, custom detection rules, and secure pipeline patterns while providing “Wow Them” service to clients and/or internal customers or co-workers.

The Application Security Engineer will be required to demonstrate strong software engineering, security automation, and client communication skills, lead by influence, and strong business/ financial acumen to drive the use of progressive DevSecOps and shift-left security programs that will align the delivery business objectives and priorities.

About the Northeast region Application Security practice

The Northeast Application Security practice is responsible for helping client organizations secure the way they build and deliver software. We assess secure development lifecycle maturity against NIST SSDF and OWASP SAMM, review software supply chain practices against SLSA and SBOM guidance, integrate security testing and policy enforcement into CI/CD pipelines, and deploy and tune SAST, SCA, and DAST tooling across the organization.

Our team of DevSecOps solutions engineers and security architects focuses on secure development lifecycle assessment, CI/CD security integration, and the deployment and tuning of application security tooling. We partner with client development, platform engineering, and application security leadership, as well as GuidePoint's corporate Application Security practice, to reduce noise in scanner output, integrate security into the delivery process without slowing releases, and provide tooling recommendations that reflect how the tools perform in practice rather than how they are marketed.

- We help clients get more value from the security tools they already have.

- We help clients evaluate and adopt new tooling when it aligns with their objectives.

- We help clients establish secure development standards as their teams adopt AI coding assistants and agent-driven engineering workflows.

- We evaluate security tooling in practice so our recommendations reflect real performance for each client's environment.

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