Top Cybersecurity Engineer Jobs

Designs, implements, and maintains cybersecurity controls including firewalls, encryption, IDS/IPS, MFA, and network security measures. Conducts vulnerability assessments and penetration testing, monitors and responds to incidents, supports security audits, and develops security documentation. Collaborates with engineering teams on secure software development, cybersecurity requirements, compliance, and cyber supply chain threat monitoring. Provides technical troubleshooting and stays current with emerging threats and security practices.

The Cybersecurity Engineer III manages enterprise vulnerability programs across infrastructure, endpoints, applications, cloud, and networks. Responsibilities include developing scanning strategies, analyzing vulnerabilities and threat intelligence, prioritizing remediation, coordinating remediation teams, managing exceptions and compensating controls, producing risk reports, integrating security platforms, supporting assessments and audits, and automating scanning and reporting workflows. The role also provides technical guidance and communicates emerging security risks.

Lead and execute adversary emulation and purple team operations to validate detections, logging, and response. Build repeatable MSV-based validation workflows, develop custom offensive tooling (C2, payloads, automation), test cloud and endpoint attack paths (AWS, GCP, Azure), and partner with Detection Engineering and Incident Response to convert findings into improved detections, documentation, and hunts.

Build and operate CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM detection and monitoring capabilities. Responsibilities include onboarding and normalizing log sources, authoring and tuning CQL searches and detection rules, maintaining dashboards, integrating telemetry across endpoint, identity, and cloud environments, reducing false positives, and partnering with IT and engineering to close security gaps and improve compliance readiness.

Leads cybersecurity detection engineering across enterprise and customer environments. Designs SIEM, EDR, SOAR, AI-driven, and automated detection capabilities; develops detection rules, remediation playbooks, and threat-hunting frameworks; manages log ingestion and data lake infrastructure; conducts attack simulations and purple-team exercises; and partners with Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability Management, Engineering, and Product teams. Provides technical mentorship, improves detection coverage, supports compliance, and contributes to off-hours response activities.

Develop and integrate safety-critical embedded software for avionics, vehicle controls, and electrification systems. Responsibilities span requirements, architecture, coding, hardware interfaces, device drivers, board support packages, integration, verification, and cybersecurity capabilities. The role uses real-time operating systems and processor architectures including ARM and PowerPC, applies safety and cybersecurity standards, and provides technical leadership through mentoring and design presentations.

Lead security design and assessments across applications, cloud, mobile, IoT, and network domains. Perform threat modeling, code reviews, vulnerability testing, and remediation planning. Advise engineering teams, design firewall/SSL policies, manage SIEM and scanning tools, and drive security improvements and compliance.

Designs and assesses security architectures for software, embedded, cloud, hardware, and sensor platforms. Leads threat modeling, risk assessments, secure SDLC initiatives, vulnerability remediation, compliance, RMF and ATO activities, security testing, and authorization documentation. Partners with engineering, infrastructure, DevOps, program, government, and customer teams to establish secure development standards and protect mission-critical technologies.

Owns day-to-day cybersecurity operations across a cloud environment, including threat detection, incident response, SIEM administration, vulnerability management, identity governance, cloud and DevOps security, compliance audits, data protection, security awareness, and managed service oversight. The role independently sets the security agenda, leads incident response, drives remediation, manages vendors, and translates technical risk into executive-level recommendations.

Support a government program’s Risk Management Framework and Authority to Operate processes. Responsibilities include applying NIST controls, conducting continuous monitoring, analyzing vulnerability scans, preparing security documentation and reports, coordinating remediation, executing security testing, and supporting contingency planning and incident response exercises. The role also gathers requirements, facilitates stakeholders, tracks corrective actions, and evaluates security across AWS, applications, APIs, and infrastructure.

Designs, implements, integrates, secures, and optimizes cybersecurity technologies across cloud, on-premises, hybrid, and multi-vendor environments. Leads security tool integration and automation using scripts, APIs, connectors, and orchestration workflows. Supports security architecture reviews, technology evaluations, incident response, security operations, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement. Collaborates with engineering, operations, development, administration, and customer stakeholders to improve cyber defense capabilities and resilience.

Designs, integrates, tests, deploys, and troubleshoots cybersecurity and network defense solutions across complex DoD environments. Performs security assessments, vulnerability mitigation, risk management, network traffic analysis, and Computer Network Defense activities. Integrates tools across operating systems, networks, servers, APIs, and security appliances; develops automation and technical documentation; supports vendor integration, customer demonstrations, acquisition lifecycles, and CONUS/OCONUS engagements.

Implements, configures, and maintains cybersecurity, networking, and cloud technologies for clients. Assesses environments against security frameworks, administers networks, monitors events, investigates suspicious activity, develops SIEM detections, troubleshoots technical issues, documents procedures, and supports client projects. The role collaborates with SOC and other teams while delivering secure solutions and client-facing managed security services.

Provides cybersecurity engineering and consulting for shipboard electric and propulsion control systems. Responsibilities include risk assessments, RMF implementation, security control validation, continuous monitoring, troubleshooting, system certification, vendor software reviews, compliance documentation, personnel training, and collaboration with engineering teams. The role supports classified and sensitive unclassified systems and requires an active Final DoD Secret clearance.

Designs, integrates, and oversees cybersecurity architectures and systems for national security networks. Responsibilities include security requirements analysis, threat identification and mitigation, security architecture design, security documentation, change-impact assessment, POA&M remediation, and development of tools to automate vulnerability mitigation. The role requires active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and strong experience in network, operating system, and information security engineering.

Lead cybersecurity engineering across cloud, SaaS, and enterprise environments. Manage compliance programs, vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, security monitoring, incident response, IAM, application and API security, secure SDLC practices, vendor risk assessments, audits, and security documentation. Serve as the subject matter expert partnering with engineering and cross-functional teams to strengthen security controls and regulatory compliance.

Develop and use cybersecurity monitoring tools to protect employees, data, and infrastructure. Investigate, respond to, and remediate security incidents; identify root causes through methodical analysis; communicate security tradeoffs to stakeholders; promote cybersecurity best practices across the firm; and collaborate with colleagues while learning and mentoring others.

Cybersecurity interns investigate alerts, analyze activity chains, hunt threats, support incident response, and build automation to improve detection and response. They will work with diverse log sources, systems, and security tools while learning software development practices. The role also involves promoting cybersecurity best practices across the firm and communicating security risks, trade-offs, and decisions. Candidates should be curious, collaborative, strong programmers with an interest in cybersecurity, threat modeling, and continuous learning.

Secure and harden wireless, edge AI, GPU, networking, virtualization, and Kubernetes platforms in a hands-on lab environment. Responsibilities include applying STIGs and CIS benchmarks, vulnerability management, network segmentation, wireless assessments, RMF and ATO documentation, identity and secrets management, logging, monitoring, and field security procedures. The engineer will collaborate with network, RF, and software teams while producing reproducible security documentation and briefing technical and leadership stakeholders.

Provides cybersecurity engineering support across information-system planning, design, testing, integration, and maintenance. Analyzes threat data from logs, IDS, intelligence reports, and vendors; creates Splunk ES dashboards, rules, reports, monitors, and use cases; and supports incident handlers and information assurance managers. Administers, configures, troubleshoots, upgrades, maintains, and backs up the DLA Splunk architecture and backend infrastructure.

Embed security throughout the software development lifecycle by designing secure systems, reviewing code, identifying vulnerabilities, integrating SAST, DAST, and SCA tools into CI/CD pipelines, and reducing application security risks. Partner with engineering teams, perform offensive and defensive security activities, support cloud security controls, automate security tooling, and communicate security issues to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Leads cybersecurity engineering and information assurance activities, analyzing security requirements and resolving system, workflow, and technology problems. Supports the planning, design, development, testing, demonstration, and integration of information systems. The role requires DoD Secret and IT-I/Tier 5 clearance eligibility, intermediate cyber defense and network operations expertise, and F5 ASM certification.

Lead cybersecurity engineering role supporting DLA information systems. Responsibilities include analyzing security requirements and threat intelligence, administering Splunk Enterprise Security and log-management infrastructure, creating dashboards, rules, reports, monitors, and use cases, and supporting system design, testing, integration, troubleshooting, maintenance, and backups. The role also provides incident-handling and information-assurance recommendations while supporting cybersecurity and network-operations functions.

Leads cybersecurity engineering and information assurance activities, analyzing security requirements, threats, logs, IDS data, and intelligence. Builds Splunk Enterprise Security dashboards, rules, reports, monitors, and threat use cases. Administers, upgrades, troubleshoots, maintains, and backs up Splunk infrastructure and related databases. Provides security engineering support across system planning, design, development, testing, integration, and sustainment while supporting incident handlers and information assurance managers.

Leads cybersecurity engineering and information assurance activities, analyzing security requirements, threat intelligence, logs, and IDS data. Develops Splunk Enterprise Security dashboards, rules, reports, monitors, channels, trends, and threat use cases. Administers, configures, troubleshoots, upgrades, maintains, and backs up the Splunk enterprise log-management architecture while supporting incident handlers and information assurance managers.