Top Remote Cyber Security Jobs in Washington, DC

Monitor, investigate, and respond to global security incidents; lead incident response as an incident commander; develop security alerts, playbooks, automated actions, and escalation workflows; conduct threat hunting and threat intelligence research; improve detection, containment, and post-incident processes; collaborate with stakeholders; and participate in an on-call rotation.

Supports IT solution design and implementation, analyzes cybersecurity protocols and recommends improvements, and collaborates with data science teams to analyze data and generate actionable insights. The internship provides hands-on experience, mentorship, professional development, and exposure to aerospace technology. Candidates must be enrolled in a relevant bachelor's or higher degree program, maintain a 3.0 GPA, and graduate in December 2027 or later.

Monitor and investigate security alerts across client environments in a 24/7 security operations center. Analyze threats, identify malicious activity and indicators of compromise, distinguish false positives, support incident response and remediation, develop vulnerability reports, and communicate findings to technical and executive audiences. Participate in shift handoffs and rotating incident triage coverage while collaborating with incident response teams.

Design, build, and scale IAM solutions across cloud and internal systems. Implement role design and least-privilege models, automate access workflows and reviews, integrate logging/metrics into SIEM, reduce privilege sprawl, identify and mitigate risky permissions, and operationalize IAM projects end-to-end with documentation and runbooks.

Leads and coordinates security and operational incident response for infrastructure, platforms, hosting, and customer environments. Serves as incident commander, manages escalations and communications, facilitates bridge calls and post-mortems, analyzes incident trends, maintains response procedures, and tracks corrective actions. Partners with technical and leadership teams to improve incident management maturity, accountability, governance, reporting, and operational transparency during high-severity events.

Leads the organization’s cybersecurity program, including security operations, incident response, vulnerability management, GRC, compliance, third-party risk, security architecture, automation, and AI adoption. Manages security staff, vendors, MDR providers, projects, policies, audits, and operational improvements while reporting risks and performance to senior leadership. The role also drives security awareness, cross-functional collaboration, incident preparedness, and team development.

Own identity and endpoint security across the company, including SSO, MFA, access provisioning, access reviews, MDM, EDR, device security baselines, and IT workflows. Respond to identity and endpoint incidents, assess vendor and SaaS integration risks, support secure AI tool adoption, automate security processes, and help develop scalable security policies and controls.

Reviews and investigates security events, phishing reports, malware detections, and brand-monitoring alerts as a Tier 2 SOC analyst. Escalates incidents, supports containment and eradication, leads remediation, mentors junior analysts, documents procedures, and collaborates with security and IT teams across a multinational organization to improve threat detection and response capabilities.

Designs, implements, maintains, and improves corporate information security technologies, including firewalls, proxies, logging, IDS/IPS, and related systems. Evaluates security risks, recommends solutions, develops policies and standards, monitors system performance and anomalies, supports disaster recovery, documents systems, and coordinates vendors and service agreements. The role also consults with IS teams, supports security projects, and contributes to compliance and governance initiatives.

Leads a 12-person application security practice conducting code audits, vulnerability research, and secure design reviews. Oversees technical delivery, client relationships, project staffing, utilization, profitability, recruiting, and team development. Provides hands-on technical direction across source-code security work, determines investments in tooling and methodologies, and integrates AI-assisted auditing and research into team workflows. The role also owns practice P&L and supports engineers’ conference, publication, and open-source contributions.

Own and advance cybersecurity for satellites, flight software, ground systems, mission networks, communication links, and AWS infrastructure. Responsibilities include security architecture, threat modeling, vulnerability management, incident response, IAM, SIEM detection engineering, network defense, cloud security, DLP, security assessments, awareness training, and compliance with CMMC Level 2, NIST 800-171, and ITAR/EAR requirements. The role collaborates with aerospace, software, systems, and compliance teams and requires expertise in mission-system security.

Lead enterprise security risk assessments, maintain the risk register, prioritize and track remediation, evaluate vendor and architectural risks, define risk methodologies, map controls to NIST and CMMC requirements, support audits, report risk metrics to leadership, and promote risk ownership across the organization.

Leads OT/ICS and enterprise cybersecurity architecture for a federal critical-infrastructure modernization program. Responsibilities include requirements development, NERC CIP traceability, market research, RFI and vendor evaluation, lab testing, alternatives analysis, product recommendations, and executive briefings. The role bridges utility operational technology and IT security, covering access control, monitoring, asset management, vulnerability management, SCADA environments, and industrial systems. It is fully remote in the U.S. with up to 25% domestic travel and requires Public Trust eligibility.

Leads data security governance across database monitoring, encryption, certificate and key management, HSM operations, data masking, and cryptographic asset inventory. Manages a security governance team, develops controls and procedures, supports audits and regulatory inquiries, partners cross-functionally, and drives post-quantum cryptography readiness, automation, metrics, service reliability, and operational maturity.

Secure Wiz’s products, CI/CD systems, and production cloud infrastructure through threat modeling, security reviews, vulnerability management, detection and response, cloud and Kubernetes security baselines, policy-as-code, and automation. Partner with engineering, DevOps, operations, and Federal teams to implement scalable security controls, remediate risks, support FedRAMP requirements, and promote secure-by-design development practices.

Lead Zeta’s AI-native Application Security function by defining strategy, building the team, embedding security agents and policy-as-code into IDEs, pull requests, CI/CD, and AI/ML pipelines, and overseeing continuous threat modeling and validation. Own security for AI systems, models, prompts, and agents, including adversarial testing for prompt injection, model abuse, and data leakage. Mentor engineers and promote automated, secure software development practices.

Designs, implements, and manages AWS cloud security policies, architecture, and technologies. The role oversees firewalls, DLP, vulnerability scanning, monitoring, logging, IAM, incident response, compliance, and remediation. It provides security guidance for AWS solutions, supports migrations of mission-critical applications, researches new technologies, documents standards, presents to varied audiences, and mentors less experienced engineers. The position requires strong AWS expertise, infrastructure-as-code proficiency, knowledge of regulated healthcare environments, and experience securing highly available cloud and serverless architectures.

Lead security engineering across AI systems, cloud infrastructure, product security, GRC automation, GitHub controls, and compliance workflows. Develop AI-specific threat models and guardrails, automate security checks and evidence collection, strengthen AWS and GCP environments, manage CSPM tooling, and secure software supply chains. Partner with Engineering, Product, Legal, IT, and GRC to establish security programs and practical controls for Jasper’s AI platforms.

Lead the development of SailPoint’s cybersecurity architecture practice. Create holistic and reference architectures, define security domains, develop strategic roadmaps, identify security gaps, and translate architectural concepts into viable engineering solutions. Partner with leadership to prioritize initiatives, secure funding, and operationalize the practice. The role also includes hands-on security projects, cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder influence, and mentoring architects and engineers across cloud, application, identity, and network security.

Oversee application security scanning, vulnerability remediation, and security-related release readiness while developing and maintaining full-stack Java web applications. Coordinate with IRS personnel, create remediation milestones, lead technical meetings, troubleshoot environments, review code, perform testing, and document technical solutions. The role requires extensive J2EE development, security tooling, CI/CD, OpenShift, mainframe integration, and vulnerability management experience in a federal environment.

Supports cloud security operations across Azure and AWS, including posture management, identity and access controls, architecture reviews, network security, DevSecOps, infrastructure-as-code reviews, data protection, monitoring, incident response, compliance assessments, and leadership reporting. Coordinates remediation with infrastructure, application development, and information security teams while maintaining cloud security policies, dashboards, documentation, and audit evidence.

Own security partnerships for Netflix Marketing and Animation, advising leaders on risk, GenAI adoption, access controls, content protection, architecture, and remediation. Lead risk assessments, business risk profiles, metrics, and pre-release content security initiatives. Support technical security due diligence for acquisitions and subsidiaries while translating complex security concerns into actionable business guidance across application, cloud, identity, and data domains.

Implements and maintains security technologies across endpoint, network, cloud, server, and mobile environments. Monitors alerts, investigates incidents, performs vulnerability assessments, develops detection rules, hardens systems, supports identity and access controls, automates security tasks, and coordinates remediation. The role also supports audits, security reviews, documentation, reporting, and continuous improvement while collaborating with IT and security teams.

Supports cybersecurity risk management and authorization for the VA.gov Platform. Assesses NIST security controls, performs gap and risk analyses, maintains SSPs, POA&Ms, and authorization evidence, and translates deficiencies into engineering remediation. The role supports ATO/cATO readiness, OSCAL automation, threat modeling, secure design reviews, stakeholder coordination, incident response, and continuous synchronization between technical changes and security documentation.

Maintains security infrastructure, firewalls, PKI, access controls, vulnerability management, incident response, compliance documentation, and threat detection systems. Uses AI-powered SIEM, EDR, UEBA, and SOAR tools to automate security operations and identify emerging threats. Develops policies based on NIST, FISMA, PCI, PII, and CJIS requirements; performs risk assessments, system hardening, and security training. Collaborates with IT teams and evaluates AI/ML security, privacy, and supply chain risks.