Application Security Engineer
Accenture Federal Services · Washington, DC
About the role
A senior application security engineer in Accenture Federal Services' Secure Digital Core practice who leads the AppSec scrum team and works with developers on a federal programme to build security into the software lifecycle. The engineer runs the team's agile ceremonies and backlog, tests and triages vulnerabilities in web and AI applications, secures GitLab and Jenkins pipelines with hardened builds, SBOM management and artifact signing, leads early threat modelling including for AI agents, and wires tools such as Snyk, Nexus and JFrog into developer workflows.
The team wants six or more years combining hands-on software engineering with application or infrastructure security, CI/CD pipeline security experience, and knowledge of SSDF and SBOM formats. US citizenship and Public Trust eligibility are required; based in Washington, DC.