Top Remote Cyber Security Jobs in Washington, DC

Investigates and manages fraud incidents within a digital bank, records losses, conducts root-cause analysis, improves controls, monitors emerging threats, maintains industry intelligence, supports fraud risk infrastructure, and delivers awareness training to business and support teams.

Leads enterprise IAM strategy and operations across workforce, machine, cloud, and customer identities. Oversees identity providers, PAM, zero-trust architecture, SSO/MFA, RBAC, IaC, JIT access, automation, compliance, audits, and M&A integrations. Manages a globally distributed team of 5–7 direct reports, partners with technical and business stakeholders, and reports program health and risk to executives.

Lead development of security enforcement integrations that warn or block unsafe AI artifact installations, serve sanitized alternatives, and record audit events. Build reliable event-driven backend systems with queues, webhooks, idempotency, retries, back-pressure, approval flows, dry runs, audit logs, and rollback mechanisms. Integrate third-party security, infrastructure, and identity APIs, with potential future work on fleet-wide revocation controls and security platform integrations.

Leads information security architecture and program initiatives across IT and business projects. Provides security consulting, develops enterprise data, network, and application protection requirements, conducts threat analysis, vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, and remediation planning. Researches emerging threats and technologies, supports control testing and incident response, and guides security team members. Requires extensive information security leadership, application and network security expertise, secure architecture knowledge, and strong communication skills.

Develop low-level embedded, driver, kernel, networking, and application software in C/C++ for Linux-based Wave Relay products. Build cross-platform security components, PKI frameworks, and OpenSSL-based cryptographic solutions. Responsibilities include socket programming, network stack development, hardware and application development, and software security engineering. Requires strong wireless Layer 2 networking, Linux kernel and driver expertise, product development experience, and the ability to obtain U.S. security clearance.

Designs and evaluates post-quantum cryptography solutions for the Department of Veterans Affairs. Responsibilities include assessing quantum-related risks, maintaining cryptographic inventories, developing migration strategies, supporting crypto-agile architectures, testing algorithms with classical and quantum tools, and aligning modernization efforts with NIST and federal cybersecurity standards. The role also develops cryptographic engineering solutions, conducts security assessments, and communicates technical recommendations to government stakeholders and enterprise teams.

Designs, deploys, and manages enterprise cloud security solutions across AWS and Azure. Responsibilities include automating security controls, managing AWS WAF and CDK rules, improving policies, patching vulnerabilities, implementing DevSecOps practices, assessing cloud applications and APIs, monitoring security posture, analyzing logs, triaging issues, and supporting compliance and risk initiatives.

Provide hands-on technical leadership for reusable cyber ranges, virtual-machine images, network architectures, and infrastructure automation. Design standards and automation with Ansible and Packer; troubleshoot complex networks, Windows, Linux, VMware, Active Directory, security tooling, and ICS/OT environments. Lead cross-team technical decisions, improve testing and release practices, mentor engineers, delegate ownership, and develop scalable, secure, supportable range solutions.

Leads engineering operations, security, DevOps, quality engineering, cloud infrastructure, corporate IT, data integrations, and customer-facing technical escalations. Owns security strategy and compliance, incident management, on-call practices, reliability metrics, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and production operations. Develops managers and senior engineers, restructures inherited teams, establishes service-level agreements, and drives automation and operational efficiency across the organization.

Designs, implements, maintains, and supports enterprise security infrastructure and tools. Responsibilities include firewall and network changes, security architecture, threat hunting, incident response, vulnerability assessments, system hardening, compliance with federal regulations, cloud security, automation, and technical documentation. The role also provides on-call support and assists with AWS and Azure workload protection, security monitoring, authentication, and security control implementation.