Application Security Engineer (DevSecOps)

Job Title: Application Security Engineer (DevSecOps)

Location: Onsite 5x/Week in Plano, TX


Type: Direct Hire

Top 3-5 Must Have Skills for the Position:

• Practical experience with AI-assisted coding and agentic code (e.g., using GitHub Copilot, Claude Code); ability to design guardrails, agent skills, and integrate security tools into AI agent pipelines.
• Strong hands-on experience integrating AppSec tooling and security checks into CI/CD pipelines (traditional and AI-augmented).
• Development background (not necessarily senior-level), with enough programming experience to communicate effectively with developers and discuss vulnerabilities/weaknesses in code.
• Application security experience (e.g., AppSec engineering, DevSecOps within SRE/DevOps contexts).
• Excellent collaboration in a scrum/pod environment; ability to embed with engineering teams, participate in design workshops, and influence secure design decisions.

Job Description:

Mission:Sit at the intersection of application security, platform engineering, and AI-assisted development to embed security directly into modern AI-driven development workflows, ensuring secure, scalable software delivery while maintaining development velocity

Day to Day:

• Partner with platform, data, and application engineering teams to build a casino management platform
• Integrate security into AI-assisted software development workflows
• Work within GitHub for code reviews, PR approvals, and security validation
• Perform hands-on threat modeling with a practical, modern approach (beyond traditional frameworks like STRIDE)
• Automate and enhance security scanning and vulnerability detection
• Implement and refine risk-based security gates within CI/CD pipelines
• Participate in sprint stand-ups, architecture/design discussions, and security reviews and planning sessions
• Evaluate and integrate security tooling into development and AI pipelines

Must have:

• Strong experience with CI/CD pipeline engineering and security integration
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools and workflows (e.g., agents, code generation)
• Proficiency with GitHub Copilot and familiarity with Claude Code and other AI tools
• Practical experience in application security and threat modeling (beyond theoretical frameworks)
• Ability to review code (PRs) from a security perspective and articulate risk and impact
• Experience integrating security scanning tools into development pipelines
• Understanding of risk-based security controls and enforcement (security gates)

Nice to Haves:

• Experience integrating security tool stacks into AI/ML pipelines
• Strong soft skills and developer empathy; ability to balance security rigor with engineering velocity

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Application Security Engineer (DevSecOps)

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We are an IT and Cybersecurity staffing solutions, professional services, management consulting, and executive placement company with thousands of resources across multiple IT and Cybersecurity skill sets. Our primary US locations are Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Nashville, Tampa and Denver and we have organizational arms in other domestic cities along with offshore alliances in India and Ireland. RED SKY has a 15+ year history of providing great technology talent. RED SKY has many clients including; 7 of the Fortune 10, half of the Fortune 100, and 25% of the Fortune 500 companies within the manufacturing, financial services, health care, government, consumer services, insurance, and several other industry verticals represented.

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