SAIC
SAIC

Application Vulnerability Engineer

Washington, DC, US • Posted 7 hours ago • Updated 7 hours ago
Full Time
On-site
USD $160,001.00 - 200,000.00 per year
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Skills

  • DevSecOps
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Linux
  • Operational Excellence
  • Vulnerability Assessment
  • IaaS
  • SQL Azure
  • Access Control
  • Server Administration
  • System Monitoring
  • NIST SP 800 Series
  • TLS
  • Network Design
  • System Documentation
  • Reporting
  • Supervision
  • Testing
  • Network
  • Dragon NaturallySpeaking
  • DNS
  • Firewall
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Computer Science
  • DevOps
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Google Cloud
  • Cloud Computing
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Kubernetes
  • Continuous Integration
  • Continuous Delivery
  • Scripting
  • System Administration
  • SQL
  • Servers
  • Backup
  • Recovery
  • Terraform
  • ARM
  • Computer Networking
  • Database
  • Software Security
  • OpenText
  • Fortify
  • OWASP
  • SSO
  • SAML
  • OIDC
  • Management
  • Provisioning
  • Technical Writing
  • Documentation
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • FedRAMP
  • FISMA
  • Security Clearance
  • Information Technology
  • Systems Engineering
  • FOCUS

Summary

Job ID: 2616640

Location: Washington, DC, US

Date Posted: 2026-09-09

Category: Software

Subcategory: DevSecOps

Schedule: Full-Time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: No

Minimum Clearance Required: Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret

Potential for Remote Work: ORA_HYBRID

Description

The Application Vulnerability Assessment Program (AVAP) Engineer/System Administrator is responsible for operating and securing the program's application security platforms, including OpenText Fortify, OWASP Dependency-Track, and any future application security tools, deployed in containerized and virtualized environments within Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). This role manages Kubernetes-based infrastructure (AKS), container image pipelines, and automation through Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD (Azure DevOps) to ensure resilient, scalable, and compliant deployments. The engineer will perform system administration for both Windows and Linux environments, enforce security and compliance requirements aligned to federal standards, and maintain runbooks, SOPs, and metrics to support operational excellence. In addition, the role supports AVAP customers by troubleshooting platform issues to minimize downtime and ensure mission-critical vulnerability assessment services remain highly available.

This role is hybrid and may allow 2 days of remote work weekly.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design, deploy, and maintain secure, scalable, and resilient cloud infrastructure in Azure such as Azure Key Vault, Azure SQL Server, Azure SQL DB, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), etc.
  • Operate and administer Kubernetes clusters (AKS) including node pools, networking, persistent volumes, ingress controllers, secrets management, access control, namespaces, etc.
  • Manage container image lifecycle and updates by pull hardened images (i.e., Iron Bank), scan for vulnerabilities, enforce least-privilege configurations, and publish to ACR.
  • Perform regular server administration tasks including patching, user provisioning, system monitoring, and backup/restoration.
  • Automate deployments of infrastructure and applications using Azure DevOps or equivalent CI/CD pipelines with ARM/Bicep/Terraform and Helm.
  • Implement and enforce security/compliance controls aligned to NIST SP 800-53 and Zero Trust (i.e., key vault integration, secret management, TLS cert rotation).
  • Develop and maintain operational runbooks, playbooks, SOPs, and system/network architecture diagrams to ensure repeatability and continuous system documentation.
  • Troubleshoot platform and pipeline issues across application, network, and infrastructure layers to minimize downtime for AVAP customers.
  • Contribute to monitoring and metrics collection (availability, scan throughput, failure rates, license utilization) to support program-level reporting.
  • Plan and manage assigned work with minimal supervision, including creating backlog items, tracking follow-up actions, and advising management on priorities, risks, and dependencies.
  • Lead and coordinate platform upgrades, image updates, maintenance activities, and rollback testing for application security tools and supporting infrastructure.
  • Prepare required change documentation and coordinate network, DNS, firewall, certificate, and other infrastructure updates with partner teams.
  • Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting, availability checks, and disaster recovery procedures to support reliable platform operations.


Qualifications

Required Education & Experience:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field and 9 years of relevant experience; masters and 7 years; may accept equivalent hands-on experience in lieu of degree.
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience in system administration and DevOps engineering supporting containerized platforms/Kubernetes.
  • Demonstrated expertise with Azure (preferred) and familiarity with AWS and Google Cloud Platform cloud services.
  • Hands-on experience with Azure, Kubernetes administration (AKS), Helm, IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and scripting for platform operations.
  • Experience with system administration pertaining to SQL servers/databases, backup/restore, patching, etc.
  • Experience working in controlled or regulated environments with formal change processes and security/compliance requirements.
  • Demonstrated experience with Terraform, Bicep, and/or ARM for infrastructure automation and immutability.
  • Strong troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, networking, identify, database, and application layers.
  • Familiarity with application security tools is a plus (OpenText Fortify Software Security Center, License and Infrastructure Management, OWASP Dependency Track, etc.)
  • Understanding of single sign-on implementations using SAML/OIDC (management of users/groups in Okta) as well as SCIM for automatic user provisioning.
  • Excellent technical writing and documentation skills.
  • Ability to work within government compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, NIST, FISMA, Zero Trust).

Required Clearance:
  • ship.
  • Active secret clearance with the ability to obtain a top secret clearance.


Target salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.


Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.
  • Dice Id: 10111346
  • Position Id: 2616640
  • Posted 7 hours ago

Company Info

About SAIC

SAIC® is a premier mission integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, intelligence, and civilian markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services, and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.

We are approximately 23,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.3 billion.​​​ For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.

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