Top Senior Cyber Security Jobs in Washington, DC

Lead the DoD IL4 Authorization process, manage assessments, collaborate with teams to implement security controls, and guide compliance strategy.

Lead detection and response: triage alerts and incidents, build detection signatures and response playbooks, run threat hunting and data baselining, lead incident response as incident commander, and mentor junior analysts.

The Security Investigations Manager develops and leads security investigations capabilities, overseeing investigations, developing strategies, and collaborating with stakeholders to mitigate threats and ensure safety within a rapidly evolving environment.

The Technical Security Access Control Manager oversees security access control programs, ensuring effective credentialing and visitor management while enhancing overall security posture at Anduril.

As a Lead Cloud Security Engineer, you'll safeguard cloud infrastructure by embedding security in the tech stack, leading initiatives, conducting threat assessments, and ensuring secure development practices.

Lead a technical security engineering team to design and execute enterprise security controls and exposure management. Drive platform strategy, automation, detection engineering, vulnerability management, cloud and application security, and collaborate across teams to reduce attack surface and improve measurable security posture.

Design, implement, and automate infrastructure security controls across multi-cloud and containerized environments. Build secure IaC and guardrails (Terraform, Go), review cloud and data platform architectures, partner with engineering to embed security, advise senior stakeholders, and drive incident response and continuous security improvements.

Field-based technical pre-sales role designing and scoping security assessment, deployment, and advisory services. Collaborate with sales, delivery, and partners, author SOWs, maintain partner certifications, act as subject-matter expert across endpoint and security operations technologies, and drive territory strategy and enablement.

Lead corporate security engineering to define secure-by-default baselines, oversee vulnerability management, drive automation to prevent configuration drift, govern SaaS security, mentor engineers, and ensure alignment with CMMC 2.0 and NIST 800-53 while improving audit readiness.

Lead corporate security monitoring and detection operations: own strategy and maturity roadmap, manage analysts and threat hunters, improve detection coverage and alert quality, support incident investigations, maintain audit-ready documentation, and provide actionable security metrics to leadership and compliance stakeholders.

Conduct research on mobile threats, analyze cyber campaigns, reverse engineer malware, produce intelligence reports, and collaborate with teams for threat detection.

Ensure Rubrik products meet security standards by integrating AppSec into the SDLC, performing automated and manual assessments, threat modeling, hardening applications and deployments, tracking AppSec metrics, and producing security guidance for engineering and operations teams.

Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable SecOps platforms using C++, Rust, and scripting. Implement CI/CD and DevOps practices, integrate systems via APIs/webhooks and AI-driven tools, architect cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) environments, optimize Linux/kernel configurations, automate infrastructure, and collaborate with SecOps on monitoring, detection, and response to protect enterprise assets.

The Application Security Engineer will identify and fix security vulnerabilities in the application and infrastructure, ensuring compliance with standards. They will also mentor other engineers, improve security practices, and enhance the organization's security posture.

As a Senior Security Engineer, you'll design and manage IAM and IGA solutions, collaborating across Agile teams to enhance security and compliance.

As a Principal Security Engineer, you will lead security initiatives, design secure systems, automate processes, and mentor teams, ensuring safe technology usage.

As an Information Security GRC Program Manager, you will manage GRC programs, support compliance initiatives, assess risks, and improve operational efficiency while ensuring audit readiness.

The Principal Security Operations Analyst will triage, investigate, and respond to cyber threats, mentor junior analysts, and enhance security efforts through advanced analysis and automation.

The Executive Technology & Security Specialist will support the executive team by managing their technology needs, implementing security protocols, and ensuring reliable communication in high-pressure situations.

The Security Architect will design and configure information systems per security standards, enhance security posture, develop policies, assess vulnerabilities, and lead security initiatives while collaborating with teams.

As a Principal Security Engineer in Data Security, you will spearhead Upstart's data security program, architect software solutions, partner cross-functionally, and mentor teams while ensuring effective protection of sensitive data.

The Senior Security Researcher will lead SIEM product processing strategies, conduct threat hunting and research, ensuring high detection accuracy while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Manage and mentor a team of product security engineers, scaling secure design practices and fostering a strong security culture within DigitalOcean.

The Senior Offensive Security Engineer will assess digital security of physical spaces, conduct penetration tests, identify vulnerabilities, and present findings to stakeholders, ensuring security best practices are integrated throughout device lifecycle.

The Offensive Security Engineer will perform penetration testing, threat modeling, and code reviews, while improving security standards and collaborating with engineering teams to ensure secure infrastructure and applications.