Applications Security Engineer II

job summary:

Enterprise Healthcare client has an immediate opening for a highly motivated Applications Security Engineer II to join their dynamic and growing team. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply!

location: Telecommute

job type: Contract

salary: $40.76 - 50.76 per hour

work hours: 8am to 5pm

education: Bachelors



responsibilities:

- What is the purpose of this team?

- Describe the surrounding team (team culture, work environment, etc.) & key projects.

- Do you have any additional upcoming hiring needs or is this request part of a larger hiring initiative? Application Security implements and enforces the Company's secure system development life cycle (SSDLC) standard as defined in CC.SECR.14.04.A. The team accomplishes this by administrating the Company's application security testing (AST) technologies and working directly with application development teams to ensure application weaknesses and identified vulnerabilities are mitigated or remediated within a standardized service level agreement (SLA). Key Projects: Web Application Firewall.(WAF) Management, Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST) expansion, Supply Chain Security, Application Security Posture Management (ASPM), and Application Programming Interface (API) Security.

Typical Day in the Role

- Walk me through the day-to-day responsibilities and a description of the project (Outside of the Workday JD).

- What are the performance expectations/metrics?

- What makes this role unique? Performance expectations center around reducing security risk: meeting remediation SLAs, improving mean time to remediate, lowering the number of overdue vulnerabilities, and ensuring high coverage for scanning and reviews. You're also measured on the accuracy of your assessments, the quality of your recommendations, and your ability to maintain a strong cloud and SaaS security posture while supporting audit and compliance requirements.

What makes this role unique is its combination of hands-on engineering and practical security analysis. It offers broad exposure-from application code to cloud infrastructure to SaaS systems-while giving you the chance to build automation that directly improves how teams work. The healthcare environment adds meaningful impact, as the work directly contributes to protecting sensitive patient data.

Candidate Requirements

Education/Certification Required: A Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or business field (e.g., statistics, mathematics, engineering, computer science). Or equivalent experience acquired through accomplishments of applicable knowledge, duties, scope and skill reflective of the level of this position. Preferred: CISSP.

Years of experience required: 2 - 4 years of related experience.

Disqualifiers: None.

Additional qualities to look for: Experience with SAST, DAST, IAST, MAST, and WAF.

qualifications:

Bachelors

Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.

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Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.


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