Cybersecurity Engineer – Application Security Enablement

Labcorp is seeking a Cybersecurity Engineer – Application Security Enablement to join our team in a remote capacity.

Remote. Applicants who live within 35 miles of either the Burlington, NC or Durham, NC location will follow a hybrid schedule, with a minimum of three in-office days per week at an assigned location, either Burlington or Durham, supporting both collaboration and flexibility.

This is a full‑time, exempt (salaried) position assigned to a First Shift schedule, with standard business hours of Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in your local time zone. Business needs may occasionally require flexibility in work hours, including earlier, later, or additional hours, with reasonable notice provided when possible.

• Define and document secure development standards and patterns for modern application architectures (web, API, microservices), with guidance grounded in industry best practices such as OWASP and informed by broader frameworks (i.e. NIST, CIS Controls).
• Develop reusable patterns for common application scenarios such as secure APIs, service-to-service communication and front‑end/back‑end architecture.
• Translate complex security risks into clear, developer‑focused guidance that can be easily adopted.
• Contribute to the creation of machine‑consumable security patterns to support AI‑enabled and automated development tools.

• Collaborate with engineers and architects during design discussions to provide guidance on secure application architecture and design decisions.
• Identify common security pitfalls early in the lifecycle.
• Provide guidance on secure integration and data protection patterns, including input validation and output encoding; API security and authentication flows; session management and token handling; secrets management and secure configuration.
• Promote secure‑by‑design and secure‑by‑default principles to enable efficient and secure development practices.

• Support the integration of authentication and authorization patterns within application architecture.
• Ensure secure implementation of protocols such as OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and SAML.
• Align application security practices with identity and access management, identity governance, and privileged access management solutions.

• Partner with Digital Identity Services, Cybersecurity Engineering, Product Security Testing, and other teams to provide application security guidance and support risk mitigation.
• Collaborate with the Governance, Risk, and Compliance team to align application security practices with enterprise policies and regulatory requirements.
• Work with Cybersecurity Operations to enhance detection and response capabilities for application‑level threats.
• Engage with Enterprise Architecture teams to influence secure design decisions.
• Support data protection initiatives by ensuring appropriate controls for sensitive data handling and exposure mitigation are utilized.

• Review vulnerability patterns and provide guidance on prioritization and remediation of application security risks.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to engineering and architecture teams, offering practical and actionable security recommendations.
• Support standardization of application security risk management practices across teams.

• Stay current with emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and trends in application security.
• Evaluate and evolve security standards to support cloud native, API first, distributed, and AI enabled applications.
• Contribute to the development of scalable, consistent application security enablement practices across the organization.

• High school diploma with 12 or more years of experience in application security, secure software development, or cybersecurity engineering; or Associate degree with 10 or more years of experience; or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or Engineering with 8 or more years of experience; or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or Engineering with…