Senior Cybersecurity Engineer (4291)

Company: ALTA IT Services
Location: Washington
Posted on: March 20, 2025

Job Description:

Senior Cybersecurity Engineer - cloud experience

Please ensure you read the below overview and requirements for this employment opportunity completely.
Washington, D.C. Hybrid
Active TS/SCI
Salary with full benefits to $200K
Required certifications: AWS, CISSP, Scrum

Responsibilities
Subject matter expert for the organization in security standards and best practices
Regularly perform security audits, vulnerability analysis, and provide reports
Assess, and recommend scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures incorporating IT security and safeguarding requirements
Develop best practices and security standards for the organization
Suggest and implement Cyber Security architecture improvements
Stay up to date with latest security technologies, and trends to assist in implementing enhancements to the current organization's security posture
Recommend, install, configure, operate, and maintain Government-approved IT security tools, RSA Archer and applications to support overall information assurance activities

Qualifications
Bachelor's with 12+ years (or commensurate experience) of security engineering experience
Previous experience (at least 4 years) with performing security engineering in a cloud environment, specifically supporting AWS
Required certifications: AWS, CISSP, Scrum
Desired certifications: Azure, Security+, GSEC, GPEN, CEH, or Pentest+
Basic programming knowledge
Linux, system administration, networking, and cloud proficiency
Basic penetration testing knowledge
RMF and Well-Architected Framework proficiency
Proficiency in Tenable and equivalent products
Proficiency in static code analysis
DOD STIG/CIS Benchmark proficiency
Understand the full security engineering lifecycle from requirements to deployment
Knowledge of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS architectures
Excellent oral and written communication skills with customer, team, and leadership
Strong planning and organizational skills.
Detail oriented, decisive and goal oriented to consistently exceed objectives

Clearance Required: Active TS/SCI clearance is required

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