Responsibilties
- Responsible for leading the design, development, and operations of secure cloud platforms and advanced threat detection, incident response planning, cyber resiliency strategy, and compliance with enterprise and federal security standards.
- Provide subject matter expertise on cybersecurity and collaborates across teams and with external partners to protect mission-critical applications and infrastructure.
- Lead the development of enterprise-wide cloud security policies, incident response plans, and cyber resiliency strategies.
- Design, implement, and continuously improve secure cloud-based architectures and monitoring systems.
- Analyzes complex security data to detect, remediate, and prevent cyber threats
- Guides platform and application teams on secure coding and architecture best practice, coordinates vulnerability management activities and provide actionable recommendations.
- Represent the organization in coordination with industry and government security partners.
- Oversees COMSEC operations and crypto key management systems (CKMS).
- Ensures compliance with federal and industry standards, including NIST, CNSSI 4009, and DoD policies.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of cybersecurity experience, with 3+ years in a cloud security role and a deep knowledge of cloud security across cloud environments.
- Expertise in security architecture, network defense, data protection, and threat modeling.
- Demonstrated experience in incident response, log correlation, and risk assessments.
- The ability to clearly and effectively communicate complex information Strong communication and leadership skills; capable of briefing executives and managing cross-functional security efforts.
- Preferred certifications including: CISSP, CCSP, AWS Security, or GCIH strongly preferred.
- The ability and willingness to work onsite 5 days a week in Washington, DC,
- An active Top Secret Clearance
Planet Technologies is the leading provider of Microsoft Consulting Services to public sector and commercial organizations. Planet has significant experience in deploying business intelligence, cloud services, unified communications, and systems management with an emphasis building, deploying, and managing custom solutions that transform the business operations of federal government agencies.
Planet Technologies does not discriminate in employment opportunities, terms and conditions of employment, or practices. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, age, gender, religious or political beliefs, national origin or heritage, disability, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any characteristic protected by law. Select positions at Planet Technologies have Federal Agency Clearance Requirements and may require up to a 10-year background investigation and/or US Citizenship (clearable).
Salaries for Cybersecurity Engineers at Planet Technologies range from $120,000 and $190,000. Several factors will impact final pay offered to a successful candidate including but not limited to the type and years of experience within the job, clearance level, the type of years and experience within the industry, education, training, etc.
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Skills Required
- 8+ years of cybersecurity experience
- 3+ years of experience in a cloud security role
- Deep knowledge of cloud security across cloud environments
- Expertise in security architecture, network defense, data protection, and threat modeling
- Experience in incident response, log correlation, and risk assessments
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Leadership skills and ability to brief executives and manage cross-functional security efforts
- CISSP, CCSP, AWS Security, or GCIH certification
- Willingness to work onsite five days per week in Washington, DC
- Active Top Secret clearance
What We Do
Planet Technologies was built around investing in and developing long term relationships with our customers and corporate partners. We work hard to keep our staff trained on the latest technologies, policy and operational issues impacting today’s federal and corporate environments. Being an expert on the technology we support is the first step, more importantly is understanding your business mission and integrating technology into a long term strategic plan. Planet Technologies is the leading provider of Microsoft consulting services to public sector and commercial organizations. Our team of Microsoft experts provides support for Office 365, CRM, SharePoint, System Center, SQL, and Windows 7-10. Planet has significant experience in deploying business intelligence, cloud services, unified communications, records management, workflow automation, collaboration, systems management, virtualization and more. A Global Leader in Microsoft Technologies: Few companies can compare to Planet Technologies when it comes to an established relationship with Microsoft. As a company with a 100% focus on the Microsoft platform, we know Microsoft technologies and we are a trusted partner. As a team of experienced and certified Microsoft consultants and Microsoft trainers, we are the best partner to help your staff get up to speed quickly and cost effectively in order to make your business more productive with your Enterprise Agreement investment. Advanced certifications • Microsoft Partner with five gold and ten silver competencies • CPLS Microsoft certified training Highly skilled staff • Microsoft Certified Solutions Masters (MCSM) • Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP) • Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCT) • Microsoft CRM Rangers • 150+ Microsoft Consultants We are a full-service, independent training company providing a range of IT and developer training services based on Microsoft technologies to individuals and organizations.
