Top Remote Cyber Security Jobs in Washington, DC

The Managing Consultant leads cybersecurity engagement scoping, proposal development, technical project coordination, client communication, report review, and delivery oversight. The role supports Directors and business development teams, troubleshoots technical execution issues, manages client relationships, mentors Security Consultants, and may perform limited hands-on consulting. Candidates need offensive security experience, strong client-facing communication, technical scoping and estimation skills, and the ability to translate complex findings into actionable recommendations.

Leads Ford’s enterprise Identity and Access Management strategy, platform modernization, Zero Trust adoption, and AI-powered identity security. The role oversees scalable, highly available identity services across workforce, customer, partner, workload, vehicle, and AI agent ecosystems. Responsibilities include cloud-native engineering, automation, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, SRE, governance, executive communication, and building a global platform engineering team supporting 24/7 operations.

Administers Workday and multi-platform HR security, including role-based access, security configuration, access reviews, governance, audit support, and remediation. Evaluates routine and elevated access requests, enforces least-privilege standards, analyzes security and audit trends, maintains governance documentation, and recommends policy and process improvements. Collaborates with HR, IT, Legal, Compliance, and business stakeholders while protecting confidential employee data.

Leads vCISO and cybersecurity compliance engagements for multiple clients, including CMMC and NIST assessments, SSP and POA&M development, risk assessments, framework mapping, audit and assessor support, incident response, and remediation coordination. Advises clients on regulatory obligations, security tooling, and compliance strategies while managing client relationships, engagement health, reporting, and delivery quality across a large portfolio.

Investigate and remediate urgent fraud and product abuse incidents, analyze high-risk accounts and large datasets, identify root causes and threat patterns, and improve fraud detection and incident response. Collaborate with security, fraud, data science, legal, and policy teams to develop scalable agentic response solutions, enhance tooling and processes, communicate findings, lead projects, and mentor teammates.

Lead pre-sales engineering for Torq’s AI-native cybersecurity platform. Responsibilities include guiding sales strategy, supporting technical evaluations, delivering customer presentations and demonstrations, managing scoped proofs of concept, supporting CRM and sales processes, representing the company at industry events, advising product teams, and helping enterprise customers understand AI SOC, security automation, integrations, governance, and operational value.

Lead RMF execution and authorization efforts for classified cloud and AI-integrated systems. Develop and maintain SSPs, SARs, POA&Ms, and continuous monitoring documentation; assess NIST, DoD, CNSS, FedRAMP, cloud, container, and AI security controls. Conduct architecture reviews, threat modeling, vulnerability assessments, risk analysis, and security control assessments while coordinating with architects, developers, DevSecOps teams, customers, and third-party assessors.

Support a global 24x7x365 security operations team by monitoring systems and networks, investigating threats and incidents, responding to phishing, malware, breaches, and cyberattacks, deploying countermeasures, analyzing post-event activity, assessing vulnerabilities, and improving security protocols. The role requires familiarity with cloud security controls, network protocols, operating systems, scripting, web technologies, penetration testing tools, and threat intelligence.

Secure, harden, and scale AWS and Kubernetes production infrastructure. Build Terraform-based infrastructure as code, maintain Linux and Windows systems, improve IAM and CI/CD security, remediate vulnerabilities, support compliance audits, and administer security controls. The role also involves incident response, troubleshooting, documentation, operational runbooks, and collaboration with platform, engineering, and security teams supporting regulated and government environments.

Leads enterprise IT and cybersecurity strategy, teams, budgets, service delivery, infrastructure reliability, security governance, incident response, compliance, audits, vendor relationships, and operational resilience. Advises executives and boards on technology risk, investments, material incidents, and risk acceptance while establishing standards, metrics, roadmaps, and continuous improvement practices.