Cyber Security Engineer

Description

The company is a technology firm within a global consulting group, and it works only with the US federal government.

Clients include defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations.

The role focuses on keeping networks, applications, and data safe from changing cyber threats, and works with engineering teams, ISSOs, and assessors to improve the team's overall protection.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and keep up security systems and data protection controls.
• Run security audits, penetration tests, and vulnerability scans to find weaknesses and help get them fixed.
• Watch systems for unusual activity, investigate incidents, and roll out patches or configuration changes.
• Write and maintain incident response plans that keep operations running.
• Draft, revise, and enforce security policies, standards, and procedures.
• Write documentation that both technical and non-technical readers can follow.
• Lead discussions among engineering teams, ISSOs, assessors, and other technical stakeholders.
• Read and assess architecture documents and design diagrams.
• Work with concepts across cloud, networking, IAM, logging, and security controls.
• Use version control, CI/CD pipeline concepts, and vulnerability management workflows.
• Help track security findings from discovery through to remediation.
• Support federal compliance work, including the ATO lifecycle and POA&M management.
• Take part in Scrum and Agile team activities.

Requirements

• Ability to write clear security and compliance documentation.
• Strong skills in facilitation and managing stakeholders.
• Ability to read and discuss architecture documentation and diagrams.
• Basic understanding of cloud, networking, IAM, security, and logging concepts.
• Familiarity with version control, CI/CD, and vulnerability management workflows.
• Preferred: experience tracking security findings from vulnerability scanning through remediation.
• Preferred: hands-on experience with federal security compliance, including the ATO lifecycle and POA&M management.
• Preferred: experience taking part in Scrum activities.

Conditions

U.S. citizenship is required.

An active Top Secret clearance is required.

Pay varies by office location, role, skill set, and experience level.

The base pay range in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia is $106,300 - $206,200 USD.

Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis with no fixed deadline.

The company offers equal opportunity to all applicants.

Benefits

• A wide variety of benefits is offered, with details available on the company's benefits page.
• Support for growth through hands-on experience, certifications, and industry training.