Top Remote Cyber Security Jobs in Washington, DC

Lead research to detect Windows threats and develop sensor/telemetry capabilities. Collaborate with engineering and product teams to implement detections, investigate false positives/negatives, apply AI to research workflows, produce technical documentation, and mentor others while promoting the company externally.

Lead detection and response across cloud, blockchain, and AI surfaces. Build detection coverage, run incident response, deploy SOC AI tooling, maintain SIEM/SOAR and orchestration, and collaborate cross-functionally to remediate threats and improve visibility. Participate in on-call rotation and support threat modeling, vulnerability scans, and custom tooling.

Leads cloud security architecture and implementation, focusing on data privacy, GDPR compliance, Kubernetes security, mTLS, RBAC, zero-trust networking, audit logging, threat modeling, and vulnerability assessments. Collaborates across teams, mentors junior engineers, documents security practices, monitors industry trends, and drives resilient, compliant cloud infrastructure.

Build Ent’s endpoint data-protection layer for classifying sensitive data, tracing provenance, and enforcing egress policies across devices, applications, networks, removable media, browsers, and AI tools. Develop cross-platform interception and content inspection capabilities, integrate on-device language models, optimize performance, produce forensic evidence, investigate compatibility issues, and improve detection precision for enterprise customers.

Deliver cybersecurity assessments, architecture reviews, maturity evaluations, security roadmaps, and implementation guidance for enterprise clients. Assess on-premises, cloud, hybrid, identity, OT, and ICS environments; identify risks and security gaps; produce reports; and present recommendations to technical and executive stakeholders. Support incident response and post-incident improvements, collaborate with engagement managers and specialists, contribute to consulting methodologies, and stay current on threats and security best practices. Travel is approximately 20%.

Lead cybersecurity risk strategy for frontier AI auditing. Design secure audit systems and privacy-enhancing technologies, evaluate AI-related cybersecurity risks, develop code and data tools, and strengthen internal IT infrastructure. Responsibilities include access controls, data protection, device management, incident response readiness, and communicating threat models, cryptography, and risk to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Manage and enhance the firm’s information security systems, threat lifecycle, incident response, risk management, and security technology. Review and investigate security events, coordinate threat mitigation, lead third-party assessments, design scalable security environments, provide security consulting, and support users. The role requires expertise in SIEM, network and endpoint security, cloud technologies, incident response, Linux, and enterprise security controls.

Lead architecture and scaling of an automated, AI-driven vulnerability detection and remediation platform across cloud, containers, and applications. Correlate SAST/DAST/SCA findings, implement AI-assisted triage, run red/purple team validation, and build automated remediation pipelines integrated into CI/CD for continuous compliance and risk reduction.

Designs, implements, and maintains enterprise IAM solutions across hybrid on-premises and cloud environments. The role drives Zero Trust modernization, identity automation, access governance, privileged access controls, threat monitoring, and automated response. Responsibilities include evaluating security technologies, mitigating identity risks, supporting compliance and audit readiness, and establishing security standards. The engineer collaborates with infrastructure, application, and security teams and participates in rotational on-call, weekend, and holiday support.

Own and evolve the application security program: embed secure SDLC practices, partner with engineering on design and code reviews, manage AppSec tooling (SAST/DAST/ASM/WAF/mobile), harden AWS deployments, integrate security into CI/CD, and lead vulnerability investigation and remediation efforts.

Lead security across applications, services, infrastructure, and developer workflows. Identify, assess, and mitigate risks; run secure code reviews, threat modeling, and architecture discussions; build automation and tooling to prevent issues; harden authentication and access control; investigate incidents and manage disclosures; partner with engineering teams to design secure-by-default APIs and deployments.

Design and build cloud security tooling, automation, and AI-enabled threat-hunting capabilities. Perform threat modeling, incident response, security research, architecture reviews, and detection engineering. Develop SIEM and SOAR integrations, automate security processes, address AI-related threats using MITRE ATLAS, and contribute to multi-year security roadmaps. Collaborate across engineering and business teams, prioritize security improvements, support on-call operations, and mentor team members.

Assesses clients’ operational technology security posture across manufacturing, energy, utilities, and critical infrastructure. Conducts stakeholder interviews, reviews OT documentation, evaluates environments against cybersecurity frameworks and regulations, develops maturity assessments and remediation roadmaps, and presents findings to technical teams and executives. Advises on OT security governance, policies, procedures, risk management, and compliance while supporting broader cyber risk advisory engagements.

Own strategic post-sales relationships with enterprise customers, advising them on AI security and governance. Lead discovery, define measurable outcomes, drive adoption, support retention and expansion, and coordinate Product, Engineering, Security, Support, and operationalization teams. Translate CISO-level strategy, GRC concerns, business objectives, and technical requirements into practical solution strategies while identifying new AI security use cases and growth opportunities.

Owns security operations and compliance for a multi-tenant GPUaaS platform. Maintains SOC 2 and SOC 3 programs, coordinates audits and penetration tests, manages IAM and security tooling, leads vulnerability management and incident response, supports customer security reviews and contracts, maintains policies, and drives security awareness and phishing programs.

Leads Ferguson’s network security program, managing a team of up to six and overseeing firewalls, IDS/IPS, VPN, URL filtering, endpoint, cloud, and perimeter security. Develops strategic roadmaps, manages budgets and vendors, oversees solution design and deployments, supports major projects, and ensures operational documentation and training. The role also evaluates emerging technologies, partners with architecture and engineering teams, and provides cybersecurity domain expertise across Zero Trust, SASE, and network security.

Lead AWS GovCloud security engineering and accreditation for pre-production modernization environments. Design secure cloud architectures, landing zones, IAM controls, network segmentation, infrastructure automation, containers, and CI/CD deployments. Own DoD RMF, IATT-C, and ATO packages, security controls, POA&Ms, vulnerability remediation, continuous monitoring, and cybersecurity assessments. Provide cloud and cybersecurity guidance for modernization, migration, data transition, Zero Trust, and ICAM initiatives while advising program leadership.

Supports information security governance programs covering data retention and protection, eDiscovery, legal holds, insider risk, investigations, and regulatory compliance. Develops policies and governance processes, assesses risks and control gaps, administers retention and destruction activities, supports litigation and audit requests, investigates insider risk events, manages related technologies and vendors, and delivers reports and executive communications. Partners with Legal, Compliance, HR, Corporate Security, Technology, and business stakeholders.

Secure Temporal’s development pipeline, product, and customer execution environments. Partner with engineering teams on secure architecture, threat modeling, risk assessments, code and software supply-chain security, vulnerability triage, Kubernetes hardening, multi-tenant isolation, and responsible AI security. Participate in on-call rotations and help establish actionable security policies and practices across the organization.

Build automation and data tooling for Sales Engineering, support customer Proofs of Value, integrate and validate security data, and analyze vulnerabilities, controls, and attack paths. Own threat intelligence for go-to-market teams by tracking CVEs and active exploitation. Present findings to customers, support technical sales conversations, and collaborate with Product, R&D, and Research to improve detection and mitigation logic.

Lead technical response to security incidents across Twilio's global cloud infrastructure. Triage, contain, remediate, document incidents, drive post-incident improvements, automate workflows (SOAR), extend SIEM capabilities, participate in on-call rotation, mentor teammates, and collaborate with R&D to improve detection and threat mitigation.

Leads cybersecurity solutions engineering for government and education customers across managed security, network monitoring, cloud security, and related services. Provides technical discovery, solution design, demonstrations, proofs of concept, onboarding, deployment guidance, escalations, and post-sales support. Partners with sales and technical account teams, mentors engineers, develops enablement materials, informs product strategy, identifies expansion opportunities, and manages customer activity in Salesforce.

Designs and secures enterprise AI platform foundations for mission-critical environments. Responsibilities include threat modeling, tenant isolation, identity and authorization architecture, secure CI/CD, compliance-by-design, and protection of systems executing untrusted code, tools, or agent actions. The role partners with client engineering, product, security, and business stakeholders to deliver secure, reliable, and compliant platform capabilities.

Leads Trace3’s Security Solutions practice, developing go-to-market strategy, security offerings, AI-enabled services, presales execution, partner relationships, and complex client engagements. Owns revenue, gross profit, forecasting, pipeline, and operating-plan performance. Advises executive leadership, supports assessments and proof-of-concepts, communicates with technical and executive audiences, and leads, coaches, and develops practice teams.

Designs, implements, and optimizes enterprise, cloud, and operational security controls. Responsibilities include managing firewalls, SIEM, EDR, SOAR, IAM, vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, incident response, security monitoring, architecture documentation, compliance alignment, and remediation support. The role collaborates with IT, DevOps, and security teams to improve detection, response, resilience, and audit readiness.