Location: Mt. Sterling, IL, or Chesterfield, MO Department: Information Technology Reports To: Director of Security & Networking Salary Range: $87,410 - $131,116 annually, plus bonus opportunity
WHO YOU ARE
You have strong technical fundamentals and want to grow into application security. You are curious, take the initiative to learn, and practice informed decision making. If this sounds like you, Dot Foods wants you on our team.
As Security Engineer with a focus on Application Security and Cloud, you will help improve security across our software development lifecycle, cloud applications, and emerging AI-enabled solutions. You will work closely with software developers, architects, platform engineers, and Cybersecurity to identify risk early, integrate security into development workflows, and help teams build secure applications without creating unnecessary delivery friction.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Help implement and improve secure development standards for .NET and Python applications.
- Support threat modeling, architecture reviews, secure code reviews, and risk assessments.
- Identify and help remediate vulnerabilities in applications, APIs, cloud services, containers, and supporting infrastructure.
- Integrate security testing into Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, and other development workflows.
- Support static, dynamic, open-source dependency, infrastructure-as-code, and container testing.
- Use Azure and cloud security capabilities to identify and prioritize application and cloud risks.
- Develop scripts, automation, and reporting that improve security testing and remediation.
- Provide practical security guidance to software development teams.
- Help evaluate risks in AI- and LLM-enabled applications, including data leakage, prompt injection, misuse, and insecure integrations.
- Develop metrics that show application-security coverage, risk, and remediation
YOU MUST HAVE
- Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience
- 2+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, cybersecurity, or related disciplines.
- Experience in application development, application security, cloud engineering, DevOps/CI/CD, or security engineering.
- Knowledge of secure development practices, application vulnerabilities, API security, authentication/authorization, and secrets management.
- Experience with .NET, Python, Azure, or similar modern development and cloud technologies.
- Strong communication, analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to quickly learn new technologies.
YOU MAY ALSO HAVE
- Experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, or Bicep.
- Experience with application-security testing tools or vulnerability-management processes.