Application Security Engineer (Contractor)

About the Job: 

The Application Security Engineer reports to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and works directly with the software development and production operations teams building and maintaining our 10 SaaS platforms across Radicle Health. This role requires a hands-on technical engineer to architect software security tooling and integrate security in the software development process.

*This is a 12 month contract role with potential to hire

Who you are: 

• 3-5 years of scripting and development experience, preferably supporting web applications.
• 2-3 years of cloud engineering experience, preferably using Infrastructure as Code. (Emphasis in AWS)
• Familiarity with Claude AI and other AI tools and leveraging agentic AI for automation.
• NIST and HIPAA experience a plus.
• Demonstrated excellent judgment in assessing and prioritizing technical risk.
• Knowledge of security best practices and standards, such as OWASP and OWASP ASVS, S-SDLC, and BSIMM.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex security issues to technical and non-technical collaborators, with an inclusive mindset.
• You work to identify and remove bottlenecks for your teammates, both in process and technology.
• Familiarity with a wide variety of security tools, technologies, and methodologies

In this role, you will:

• Assist initiatives and projects to support and enhance security in our application development processes.
• Bring your ideas forward, evaluating how to optimize the tools we're using and exploring technologies to enhance our security posture and support scalability.
• Conduct internal penetration testing and code reviews.
• Create, update, and maintain threat models for a wide variety of software projects.
• Leverage AI to automate workflows and build efficiencies.
• Work closely with software developers to advise on secure coding practices, assist with vulnerability remediation, establish a proactive security posture, and promote continual process improvement.
• Assist projects to regularly analyze source code, pinpointing and supporting remediation of potential vulnerabilities upon discovery.
• Draft communications detailing status of security projects and programs to provide stakeholder updates and obtain leadership support.
• Support development of security training material and provide guidance for internal software development teams.
• Support incident response.

Compensation: $62.00/hour

Location: Remote 

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