Security Engineer

Description

The company provides IT services and solutions to federal government clients, combining people, skills, clearance levels, and technology to improve performance and support lasting change.

It has supported more than 30 federal agencies and several commercial customers nationwide, with 15+ years of delivery experience as a small business.

This is an on-site role supporting a government contract for a client in Washington, DC. Position reference: GH 1092.

Responsibilities

• Lead the creation of cloud security policies, incident response plans, and cyber resiliency strategy across the enterprise.
• Design, build, and keep improving secure cloud architectures and monitoring systems.
• Study complex security data to find, fix, and head off cyber threats.
• Advise platform and application teams on secure coding and architecture.
• Manage vulnerability work and give clear, actionable recommendations.
• Speak for the organization with industry and government security partners.
• Run COMSEC operations and the crypto key management system (CKMS).
• Make sure work meets federal and industry standards, including NIST and CNSSI 4009.
• Coach junior engineers and lead security projects from concept through rollout.

Requirements

• Hold an active TS/SCI security clearance.
• Have 8+ years of cybersecurity experience, including 3+ years in a cloud security role.
• Know cloud security deeply across different cloud environments.
• Bring expertise in security architecture, network defense, data protection, and threat modeling.
• Have hands-on experience with incident response, log correlation, and risk assessments.
• Communicate and lead well, able to brief executives and coordinate cross-functional security work.
• Preferred: certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, AWS Security, or GCIH.

Conditions

Pay range: $125,000 - $140,000 USD. This is a general guideline, not a guaranteed salary; final offers depend on factors such as the role's responsibilities, education, experience, skills, internal equity, location, and market data.

Full-time position, on-site in Washington, DC.

The company is a federal subcontractor and an equal opportunity employer that follows federal laws against employment discrimination.

Benefits

• The company offers a competitive compensation package.
• Benefit details are published on the company's benefits page.