Federal - Application Security Consultant
Washington, DC

Job Description

Organization: Accenture Federal Services

Location: Washington, DC

Accenture Federal Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Accenture LLP, is a U.S. company with offices in Arlington, Virginia. Accenture's federal business has served every cabinet-level department and 30 of the largest federal organizations. Accenture Federal Services transforms bold ideas into breakthrough outcomes for clients at defense, intelligence, public safety, civilian and military health organizations.

We believe that great outcomes are everything. It's what drives us to turn bold ideas into breakthrough solutions. By combining digital technologies with what works across the world's leading businesses, we use agile approaches to help clients solve their toughest problems fast-the first time. So, you can deliver what matters most.

Count on us to help you embrace new ways of working, building for change and put customers at the core. A wholly owned subsidiary of Accenture, we bring over 30 years of experience serving the federal government, including every cabinet-level department. Our 7,200 dedicated colleagues and change makers work with our clients at the heart of the nation's priorities in defense, intel, public safety, health and civilian to help you make a difference for the people you employ, serve and protect.

In this role, you will:

* Perform vulnerability scans and security testing on public-facing, Cloud-hosted web and mobile applications using Burpsuite Pro, other dynamic code analysis tools, and manual testing.


* Review the scan and test results to provide analysis, validation and remediation steps.


* Classify and prioritize the risk of new vulnerabilities and flaws according to the specifics of the environment's risk level, and assess the impacts of internal and external threats.


* Deploy, configure and run tools to aide in assessing the security of the applications in dev, test and production environments.


* Lead efforts to establish and improve secure SDLC activities and identify tools to integrate in the SDLC to aid in evaluating the security of the applications.


* Assist security engineering team in configuring and deploying web application firewalls to protect applications and mitigate security flaws