3 days ago
Base Salary
$87k - $157k/yr
Responsibilities
- Analyze application designs and architectures for security risks and recommend secure design patterns.
- Perform manual and automated code reviews and guide vulnerability remediation.
- Integrate and maintain application security tools in CI/CD pipelines.
- Conduct SAST, DAST, SCA, and penetration-testing coordination.
- Triage, prioritize, track, and coordinate remediation of vulnerability findings.
- Guide developers on secure coding practices and provide training.
- Support application-level security incident investigation and remediation.
- Report vulnerability status and risk posture in formal reviews and program reporting.
- Coordinate DevSecOps work with development roadmaps, releases, and operational priorities.
- Facilitate daily scrum and sprint planning and support backlog prioritization and impediment removal.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or a related field with 5+ years of experience, or equivalent experience; additional experience may substitute for the degree.
- At least 5 years of hands-on application security experience in a software development environment.
- Experience integrating security into CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps workflows.
- Experience managing vulnerabilities through remediation with development teams.
- Understanding of secure software development lifecycle principles and security incident response.
- Ability to communicate security risks and recommendations to technical teams and work cross-functionally with developers, architects, and operations teams.
- Experience working in a DevSecOps team using an Agile development framework.
- U.S. citizenship is required.
- Preferred: secure code review and OWASP Top 10 experience; SAST, DAST, and SCA tool experience; federal or regulated-environment experience; threat modeling and secure architecture familiarity; container and cloud security experience; and risk-based vulnerability prioritization or release-gating knowledge.
Benefits
- The stated pay range is $87,100.00-$157,450.00 per year.
- The posting is for a U.S. position and is expected to remain open for at least three days after the November 6, 2026 posting date.
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About Leidos
Leidos builds and operates technology and engineering solutions for defense, intelligence, civil, and health agencies, including systems integration, cyber, enterprise IT, sensors, and healthcare IT. It primarily sells through government contracts and long-term programs, plus managed services and mission software. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos is a Fortune 500 public company on the NYSE; customers include U.S. defense and intelligence agencies and civil bodies such as the FAA.