Jobs · Information Technology · Texas

Senior Application Security Engineer AI Focused

TEKsystems · Plano, TX · 2 wk ago
On-siteInformation Technology$65–$75/hrContract

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Application Security Engineer to join a newly formed team building a next-generation casino management platform. This role sits at the intersection of Application Security, Platform Engineering, DevSecOps, and AI-assisted software development. You'll partner directly with development, platform, and data engineering teams to embed security into modern development workflows while helping the organization scale its AI-driven engineering capabilities. This role is looking for a strong Application Security engineer to come and 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.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Requirements

  • 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)

Qualifications

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

Skills

  • Application security
  • Security
  • Cyber security
  • Platform engineering
  • Threat modeling
  • Pipeline integration
  • Systems management
  • Cloud
  • Threat
  • AI
  • Data pipeline
  • CI/CD pipeline
  • Integration
  • GitHub
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitHub Copilot
  • Claude Code
  • Security scanning tools (SAST, SCA, Secret Scanning)
  • Cloud technologies
  • AI-assisted development platforms
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • Modern application architectures

Benefits

  • Medical, dental

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