Responsibilities
- Identify, analyze, and remediate web application vulnerabilities, insecure dependencies, misconfigurations, and other security weaknesses.
- Support threat modeling, security assessments, remediation validation, and vulnerability management throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Integrate security controls into web applications, APIs, and supporting services using secure-by-design principles.
- Implement secure communication protocols, data protection mechanisms, and application security controls.
- Review and analyze web server and application logs to identify anomalies and indicators of compromise.
- Support incident response activities for web application security events and investigations.
- Develop automation scripts and processes for threat detection, security monitoring, and compliance reporting.
- Maintain documentation for findings, remediation activities, security controls, and operational procedures.
- Support compliance with NIST SP 800-53, FISMA, and FedRAMP requirements and participate in audits, risk assessments, security reviews, and authorization activities.
- Collaborate with development, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and operations teams to improve application security posture.
- Support DevSecOps practices and security controls throughout CI/CD pipelines.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
- At least 5 years of experience in Application Security, Web Application Security, Secure Software Development, DevSecOps, or related disciplines.
- Experience with secure software development, vulnerability remediation, log analysis, security monitoring, and web application security investigations.
- Strong understanding of OWASP Top 10, secure coding standards, and web application security best practices.
- Experience with .NET, C#, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, REST APIs, and SQL.
- Experience deploying, configuring, and maintaining Web Application Firewalls and supporting File Integrity Monitoring solutions.
- Familiarity with SIEM, IDS/IPS, EDR, NDR, or similar security testing and monitoring platforms.
- Experience integrating security controls into CI/CD pipelines and applying DevSecOps principles.
- Ability to perform risk assessments, analyze cyber threats, and recommend remediation actions.
- Current security certification such as CSSLP, GWEB, CASE, OSWE, OSCP, Security+, GSEC, or equivalent.
- Ability to complete and maintain a government background investigation.
- Preferred experience includes federal government environments, NIST SP 800-53, FISMA, FedRAMP, threat modeling, security architecture reviews, AWS cloud security, Docker, Kubernetes, automated security controls, and security metrics or audit reporting.
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- Comprehensive health coverage
- Flexible PTO
- Federal holidays off
- Tuition reimbursement
- Professional development support
- Wellness stipends
- Combination of on-site and remote work in Washington, DC depending on program needs
Tech Stack
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About Ardent
For nearly 20 years, Ardent has served this country by delivering award-winning security and defense technology solutions. Our clients' missions range from medical evacuation in overseas theaters to border protection to port security. They trust Ardent to guarantee quality, reliability, and responsiveness. The Ardent Team is the underpinning of our success. Our IT professionals specialize in large-scale situational awareness, geographic visualization, cloud, and information sharing technologies. Ardent inspires its employees to love their jobs. We can help you grow your career by connecting you with our top-notch professionals on challenging projects. We actively mentor and equip our employees to be thought leaders in their fields, and we offer competitive salaries and benefits, including financial rewards for excellence. If you like a fast-paced environment where insights are valued and innovations encouraged, then we want to meet you. Please visit our Career Portal www.ardentmc.com/careers to discover opportunities at Ardent.