Top Remote Cyber Security Jobs in Washington, DC

Manage and grow a security engineering team responsible for product and platform security, embedding security into the SDLC, running red team/adversarial testing, performing hands-on web application pentesting, threat modeling, secure-coding guidance, and defining AI security guardrails.

Lead design, implementation, and management of security infrastructure across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments. Drive incident response, threat detection tuning, vulnerability assessments, risk and compliance (HIPAA, PCI-DSS, NIST, ISO 27001), security policy development, and security training. Collaborate with IT, DevOps, legal, and procurement to integrate security into SDLC and vendor selection.

Build and operate an internal Red Team to continuously find vulnerabilities across protocol, consensus, bridges, and execution clients. Develop Rust-based fuzzers and custom security tooling, simulate economic attacks on testnet, analyze game-theoretic risks (MEV, staking), and partner with engineering teams to review critical architecture and mitigate exploits.

Build and maintain data pipelines, metrics, and dashboards to quantify consumer product security risk. Perform hands-on analytics into device and authentication signals, shape risk measurement strategy, partner with product and security teams, and influence leadership reporting. Drive a unified, scalable data foundation that enables cross-team alignment and proactive risk detection.

Lead strategy, execution, and operational excellence for multiple security engineering domains. Build and develop leaders, deliver multi-year roadmaps, drive platform evolution, automation, vendor strategy, and cross-functional programs to reduce risk and scale secure operations.

Support DoD modernization engagements by implementing and validating secure configurations, supporting ATO/eMASS activities, producing operational runbooks, coordinating cutovers and testing, remediating vulnerabilities, and automating operations (scripting/AIOps) with emphasis on mainframe/legacy environments and DoD security frameworks.

Design, implement, and monitor internal security tooling and controls across endpoints and infrastructure. Enforce endpoint configurations via MDM, manage identity and zero-trust SSO solutions, automate security operations with IaC and scripting, perform log analysis and incident response, and collaborate with client platform and IT teams to harden systems and support threat hunting.

Support cybersecurity engineering for a VA healthcare modernization project: secure AWS and hybrid environments, support RMF/ATO and compliance, configure and monitor AWS security services, produce SSPs/POA&Ms/SOPs, perform vulnerability assessments and DISA STIG hardening, integrate security into DevSecOps and CI/CD, and collaborate with stakeholders on security controls and remediation.

Lead design and management of security architecture (SIEM, EDR, DLP, firewalls, VPNs), drive incident response and detection tuning, perform vulnerability and risk assessments, support compliance/audits (HIPAA, PCI-DSS, NIST, ISO 27001), and provide cross-functional security guidance and training.

Lead enterprise strategy and engineering to defend against AI-powered threats. Design detection, prevention, and response architecture for adversarial AI, integrate controls into cyber tooling, build threat models, prototype defensive AI, and mentor teams while influencing leadership and vendor selection.

Perform application-security engineering: run SAST/DAST scans, triage and remediate vulnerabilities, integrate Fortify/JFrog Xray/OWASP ZAP into CI/CD, support software-supply-chain/SCA efforts, and collaborate with developers to document and resolve security findings.

Lead product security across application, CI/CD/supply-chain, and Kubernetes-based infrastructure. Own PKI and mTLS, vulnerability management, product incident response, infra hardening, and partner with hardware/firmware teams on secure boot, key storage, and supply-chain integrity. Drive secure SDLC, SAST/DAST/SCA, SLSA-aligned controls, and mentor engineering teams while building security programmatic controls.

Company-wide recruiting bucket for Trace3's Security team. No specific role duties listed; applicants are encouraged to apply for a specific security opening. Describes company culture, perks (benefits, 401(k), PTO), and commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Provide technical and functional security support for Oracle Fusion Cloud and related applications. Manage access provisioning/deprovisioning, troubleshoot roles and data security issues, maintain role and service-account documentation, support BI permissions, assist projects and consultants, and ensure SOX compliance for Oracle access controls.

Design, review, and verify security architecture across infrastructure, applications, blockchain, and AI projects; conduct security assessments and audits; advise blockchain teams on secure operations; stay current on security threats and mitigations.

Lead IAM consulting engagements: deliver assessments, architecture design, and implementations across IGA, PAM, access management, and cloud identity. Serve as technical SME for pursuits, scope and price engagements, produce client-ready deliverables, facilitate executive workshops, mentor consultants, and grow the IAM practice through reusable assets and thought leadership.

Lead and grow WWT's micro-segmentation practice, driving revenue and client engagements across Illumio, Guardicore, and Cisco Secure Workload. Manage a team of consultants, author SOWs, deliver end-to-end segmentation and zero-trust solutions, oversee project delivery, and advise clients on compliance and optimization. Partner with sales, OEMs, and executives to position offerings and ensure successful outcomes.

Build reliable, scalable data pipelines and data products to surface security, fraud, and infrastructure risks. Use big-data technologies (Spark, Presto, Flink, Kafka) and advanced SQL to ETL, model, maintain datasets, and enable analytics for security teams. Partner cross-functionally and lead complex system design and implementation.

Lead technical IAM delivery tasks: conduct current-state discovery, configure and validate IGA/PAM/Access Management platforms, perform gap analyses against frameworks, produce client deliverables (assessments, diagrams, maturity scores), facilitate workshops, and support pre-sales and practice development while growing toward workstream ownership.

Build and maintain scalable data pipelines and data products to enable security and fraud detection. Implement ETL, data models, and distributed processing (Spark/Presto/Flink/Kafka) to centralize signals, support analytics and machine learning, and partner with security teams to improve detection and mitigation of fraud and account compromise.

Manage customer-facing security reviews end-to-end: complete questionnaires/RFPs, act as security contact during sales, build reusable answer libraries and AI-assisted workflows, address AI-governance and compliance questions, and collaborate with Security, Product, and Legal to close gaps and scale processes.

Provide engineering-first customer support for security, privacy, and assurance tooling. Triage and resolve authentication and access issues, build automation and runbooks, maintain support tooling, and improve developer experience. Use Generative AI responsibly to accelerate triage, documentation, and automation while advocating for customers and collaborating with product and engineering partners.

Architect and implement system-level security for Open Connect edge and gaming appliances across hardware (FPGA, BMC, BIOS/UEFI), kernels and dual OS (FreeBSD/Linux). Improve platform integrity (measured/secure boot, BMC controls), triage system-level vulnerabilities, build low-level tooling and automation, and partner cross-functionally and with vendors to harden binary ingestion and execution.

Own protocol and cryptographic foundations for Netflix Open Connect edge appliances. Design and implement security primitives, optimize crypto/transport for performance, build DoS mitigations, conduct vulnerability research, and partner cross-functionally to deploy end-to-end security controls across delivery infrastructure.

Serve as a public-facing Web3 security researcher: engage the community via social media, speak at conferences, give interviews, collaborate cross-functionally with CertiK teams, and support marketing and product feedback while performing technical Web3 security work.