Top Entry Level Cyber Security Jobs in Washington, DC

Sets application security direction and standards across engineering teams. Builds scalable security tooling, automation, and observability; leads threat modeling, risk assessments, code reviews, and multi-team remediation. Develops strategies for AI-powered systems and agentic development risks, API security, and software supply chain security. Partners with engineering and security teams, prioritizes investments, communicates risk to leadership, and mentors AppSec engineers.

Designs and engineers secure network and cloud architectures across AWS, GCP, Azure, and physical data centers. Responsibilities include threat modeling, network segmentation, monitoring, alerting, automation, attack-surface reduction, and secure connection patterns. The role drives strategic security improvements, partners with product and infrastructure teams, communicates architectural decisions, and mentors engineers. Candidates need deep hybrid networking and cloud security expertise, protocol knowledge, scripting ability, independent problem-solving skills, and strong communication.

Secure CrowdStrike’s software supply chain, open-source dependencies, GitHub organizations, repositories, and source-code environments. Assess risks, implement repository guardrails and secret scanning, investigate malicious packages and dependency threats, automate security checks, and guide engineering teams on secure coding and open-source compliance. The role also contributes to cross-team security initiatives, CI/CD and cloud security integrations, monitoring, and AI-enabled vulnerability triage.

Perform hands-on application and system security assessments: discover and validate vulnerabilities, develop proof-of-concepts and custom tooling, conduct threat modeling and architecture reviews, and communicate clear remediation guidance to clients while contributing to security research.

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.

Design and secure enterprise AI platform foundations, focusing on threat modeling, tenant isolation, identity, authorization, secure CI/CD, compliance-by-design, and protection of systems executing untrusted code or agent actions. Partner with client engineering, product, security, and business stakeholders to make pragmatic architecture decisions and enable reliable, compliant delivery.

Build and lead Cape’s security technical program across detection and response, corporate security, and product security. Define strategy, priorities, metrics, roadmaps, and execution processes; manage security tooling procurement and implementation; maintain backlogs; coordinate dependencies; and translate security risks and requirements between security engineers and the broader engineering organization.

Perform SAP user management including role creation, provisioning, access reviews, SoD risk assessments, and GRC security component design, development, and testing. Assess client security requirements and propose controls beyond standard SAP security.

Provide entry-level cybersecurity engineering support for a NAVSEA program office: assist implementing security measures, monitor system posture, support documentation and compliance, and help implement cyber controls under supervision for classified programs.

The Product Security Engineer partners with Engineering and Product teams to embed security throughout the development lifecycle. Responsibilities include threat modeling, architecture and security reviews, vulnerability validation, remediation planning, security-tool ownership, automation, secure coding guidance, incident response, and assessing risks in cloud and AI-enabled products. The role requires strong application security, identity, authentication, authorization, coding, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Supports cloud security operations through threat monitoring, vulnerability and incident analysis, compliance and governance activities, threat intelligence research, security hardening, incident triage, log analysis, and escalation. The trainee collaborates with Product, Engineering, Operations, and Support teams to apply cloud-native security practices, zero trust principles, and security frameworks while gaining mentorship and practical cybersecurity experience.

The fellowship provides military spouses and separating service members with cybersecurity training and hands-on experience through projects and vendor training, aimed at enhancing their security skills.

Designs and implements security controls across cloud platforms, operating systems, Kubernetes, networks, and CI/CD. Audits infrastructure for weaknesses, develops security and privacy improvements, performs threat modeling, and drives remediation. The role includes software development, infrastructure security, incident containment, and technical security analysis while collaborating with engineering teams in a distributed startup environment.

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.