Application Security Engineer
Job details
- Pay
- $158,199 – $214,032 a year
- Work mode
- Remote
- Level
- Senior
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Posted
- Oct 27, 2026
- Last confirmed open
- Oct 28, 2026
About this role
Clearance Level None Category Cyber and IT Risk Management Location Remote, Working from the USA
Key Skills For Success Documentations
Government Contracts
Risk Assessments
Technical Reports
REQ#:RQ231349
Public Trust:MBI (T2)
Requisition Type:Regular
Your Impact
Own your opportunity to work alongside federal civilian agencies. Make an impact by delivering solutions that improve citizen services millions depends on.
Job Description
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We are GDIT. The people supporting some of the most complex government, defense, and intelligence projects across the country. We deliver.
Bringing the expertise needed to understand and advance critical missions. We transform. Shifting the ways clients invest in, integrate, and innovate technology solutions.
We ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. We are there. On the ground, beside our clients, in the lab, and everywhere in between.
Offering the technology transformations, strategy, and mission services needed to get the job done.
We are currently seeking an Application Security Engineer tojoin our team at our Egg Harbor Twp, NJ facility. In this role you will be supporting one or more of our FAA programs. TFM2 provides modernization and life cycle support of Information Technology infrastructure that host national implementation of the FAA's Traffic Flow Management (TFM) functionality.
It also focuses on long term engineering services and the development of new functional enhancements that increase the capability of Traffic Flow Management.
HOW A PROJECT APPLICATION SECURITY ENGINEER SR PRINCIPAL WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:
- Prepares and maintains documentation for processes and procedures related to engineering projects
- Prepare plans and assessments, such as management engineering plans, integrated support plans, meeting presentations and implementation plans
- Research and documents analysis in technical reports and presents findings and recommendations to meet program requirements
- Performs all procedures necessary to ensure the safety of information system assets and to protect systems from intentional or inadvertent access or destruction
- Plan, execute and track security risk assessment process adherence, interfacing with stakeholders from other functional areas and coordinating with vendor resources to assist with remediation
- Contribute to the development and improvement of our data infrastructure, using open-source technologies and cloud-native services
- Regularly review and update security policies to address emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and evolving business requirements
- Ensures quality assurance of project deliverables
WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree( in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or related field)
Required Experience:
- Ten (10) plus years of related experience
Security Clearance Level:
- Must be clearable for a position of Public Trust and standard background investigation check
Work Location:
- Remote/Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey
Required Skills and Abilities:
- Excellent writing skills
- Strong communication skills, both oral and written; demonstrated ability to speak professionally and to raise issues to teams and senior management
- Experience with IBM Rational Team Concert, IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management, GitHub, Eclipse, Docker, and/or Ansible
- Experience with Cloud security
- Proficient in Government contracting, engineering and design standards, planning tools (i.e. work breakdown structures, Gantt charts, critical path analyses, PERT charts, etc.), budgeting, scheduling, and technical report development.
- Solid understanding of containers and container security with hands on experience with AWS or Azure container services, Docker, and/or Kubernetes
- Demonstrates ability to work independently
- Demonstrated strength in solving complex problems
Work Requirements
Years of Experience
10 + years of related experience
- may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree
Certification
Travel Required
None
Salary and Benefit Information
The likely salary range for this position is $158,199 - $214,032. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Our Identity Verification Process
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.
By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.
About Our
Work
We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation.
We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.
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