Application Security Engineer

Ardent is hiring an Application Security Engineer to support application security assessments, vulnerability management, and DevSecOps enablement across USCIS systems and delivery environments. The role works with development, security, platform, and operations teams to remediate risks, improve security automation, and build secure reference implementations and utility applications. Responsibilities Perform application security testing and vulnerability assessmentsConduct application security testing using approved tools, processes, and techniquesAssess web applications, APIs, services, containers, dependencies, and delivery environments for security weaknessesSupport automated security scanningSupport automated scanning of applications, APIs, services, software dependencies, containers, and CI/CD pipelinesAssist with configuring and maintaining security scanning tools used during development, build, test, release, and runtime activitiesDocument, track, and validate vulnerabilitiesDocu