Senior Application Security Engineer, DevSecOps
Posted 2025-04-06United States, Georgia, Atlanta
Information Technology
02-Dec-2024
Ref #: 26968
How you'll help us Keep Climbing (overview & key responsibilities)
Do you enjoy solving advanced technical problems, and working with best-in-class security tools? Yearn for the opportunity to build a world class application security testing organization? Enjoy building and supporting successful relationships through direct interaction with peers, managers, and other technical teams? Partnering with management to build a collaborative working environment while promoting high standards, exercising good judgment and professionalism? If you do, then it sounds like you are just the person we are looking for to join our Information Security Team at Delta Air Lines.
The successful candidate will use DevOps practices to support the enterprise in adapting its development and DevSecOps methodologies. This role involves building, administering, and supporting modern development tools to help the companyÂs cloud journey. Additionally, the candidate will apply secure coding best practices to find and address application vulnerabilities. The ideal candidate will have experience in implementing, deploying, and providing support for custom AWS Config Rules, CFN Hooks, and CFN Guard Rules. Be comfortable supporting applications across various cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, and GCP. A strong background in reviewing open-source components is essential, along with the ability to recommend configuration or environmental changes that enhance security and reduce risk in 3rd Party components used by in-house developed applications. The candidate must be solutions-oriented, employing rigorous logic and methods to effectively tackle complex problems while exploring all available resources for answers. Strong documentation skills and familiarity with the complete software development life cycle are also crucial for success in this role.
Key Responsibilities
 Leads projects to implement tools in CICD pipelines to implement automated Static Application Security Test (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Test (DAST) and Source Code Analysis (SCA).
 Works within the DevSecOps model to secure Containers, withing ROSA, Tekton and OpenShift pipelines
 Designs, develops, plans, implements, and supports Cloud DevSecOps processes across multiple business units, ensuring alignment with secure coding best practices.
 Possess extensive knowledge of CI tools such as Jenkins, Tekton, CircleCI, Gitlab, AWS CodePipeline etc.
 Test driven mindset with experience in automation with development tools
 Facilitates training on enterprise tools and best practices
 Collaborate with and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions in full-stack development tools and technologies
 Apply software development skills (e.g., Java, C#.NET, JavaScript) to recommend and apply secure coding practices
 Utilize programming languages like JavaScript, Java, HTML/CSS, TypeScript, SQL, Python, and Go, Open-Source RDBMS and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of AWS tools and services
 Knowledge of OWASP secure coding standards.
 Experience with Agile methodologies.
 Experience with AWS and Kubernetes
 Consult with development Teams to perform security reviews of software designs and help developers to ensure quality and robustness of our internal products
 Conduct security assessments against web applications and APIs across a variety of technology stacks
 Performs technical design reviews and code reviews.
 Drive awareness and knowledge of security in the developer community.
Benefits and Perks to Help You Keep Climbing
Benefits
Our culture is rooted in a shared dedication to living our values  Care, Integrity, Resilience and Servant Leadership  every day, in everything we do. At Delta, our people are our success. At the heart of what we offer is our focus on Sharing Success with Delta employees. Exploring a career at Delta gives you a chance to see the world while earning great compensation and benefits to help you keep climbing along the way:
 Competitive salary, industry-leading pro?t sharing program, and performance incentives
 401(k) with generous company contributions up to 9%
 New hires are eligible for up to 2-weeks of vacation. This is earned for use in the following vacation year (April 1  March 31)
 In addition to vacation, new hires are eligible for up to 56 hours of paid personal time within a 12-month period
 10 paid holidays per calendar year
 Birthing parents are eligible for 12-weeks of paid maternity/parental leave
 Non-birthing parents are eligible for 2-weeks of paid parental leave
 Comprehensive health bene?ts including medical, dental, vision, short/long term disability and life insurance bene?ts
 Family care assistance through fertility support, surrogacy and adoption assistance, lactation support, subsidized back-up care, and programs that help with loved ones in all stages
 Holistic Wellbeing programs to support physical, emotional, social, and financial health, including access to an employee assistance program offering support for you and anyone in your household, free financial coaching, and extensive resources supporting mental health
 Domestic and International space-available flight privileges for employees and eligible family members
 Career development programs to achieve your long-term career goals
 World-wide partnerships to engage in community service and innovative goals created to focus on sustainability and reducing our carbon footprint
 Business Resource Groups created to connect employees with common interests to promote inclusion, provide perspective and help implement strategies
 Recognition rewards and awards through the platform Unstoppable Together
 Access to over 500 discounts, specialty savings and voluntary benefits through Deltaperks such as car and hotel rentals and auto, home, and pet insurance, legal services, and childcare
What You Need To Succeed (minimum Qualifications)
 B.S. preferably in a technical or scientific field with 7 years of software and development experience, with a minimum of 5+ years of hands-on experience working with DevSecOps Technologies or 9+ years of professional experience.
 Minimum 5+ years hands-on experience working with Cloud technologies.
 Experience in API testing tools (Postman, BurpSuite or any comparable tools)
 Excellent understanding of DevSecOps techniques and processes, guide integration of various tools in DevSecOps processes (GitLab/GitHub, SonarQube, Jenkins, Selenium, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, and containerization).
 Should be well versed with the AWS well architected framework or TOGAF and able to apply those principles while designing a solution
 Experience building, engineering and supporting applications in the Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
 Experience conducting vulnerability risk and impact assessment
 Understand how to integrate security capabilities in cloud and application lifecycle management platforms especially in a DevOps model
 Excellent written and verbal communication skills
 Strong sense of urgency and ownership
 Consistently prioritizes safety and security of self, others, and personal data.
 Embraces diverse people, thinking, and styles.
 Possesses a high school diploma, GED, or high school equivalency.
 Is at least 18 years of age and has authorization to work in the United States.
What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (preferred Qualifications)
 Extensive experience in application security and/or ethical hacking
 Extensive experience in software development
 Experience integrating secure coding techniques with product teams
 Professional certifications in Security, Cloud, Container or DevOps
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