Top Senior Cyber Security Jobs in Washington, DC

Partner with sales teams to design and deliver technical demonstrations and evaluations for data security solutions. Gather requirements, configure custom product setups, lead hands-on evaluations, and guide customers to successful outcomes in strategic enterprise opportunities.

Partners with Sales to lead technical discovery, solution design, demonstrations, proof-of-value engagements, and customer validations for cybersecurity, identity, access, asset visibility, exposure management, and risk solutions. Advises technical and executive stakeholders, creates customer-facing documentation, delivers training, supports marketing events, and collaborates cross-functionally to advance enterprise sales cycles and customer outcomes. Travel is typically 25–50%.

Lead design and implementation of cloud, container, and application security across CSPs (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS). Manage client relationships and teams, apply DevSecOps practices, perform risk assessments and vulnerability testing, configure policy frameworks (CNAPP), and provide secure coding/cloud security training and mentorship to drive secure delivery and continuous improvement.

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.

Lead design and implementation of cloud security strategies across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. Conduct risk assessments, implement IaC and automated enforcement, integrate security scanning into CI/CD, mentor junior staff, build client relationships, and deliver practical solutions to complex cloud security problems while maintaining professional standards.

Provide regulatory compliance guidance and cybersecurity risk management to clients. Conduct compliance risk assessments and audits, implement frameworks (ISO/IEC 27001, NIST CSF), develop compliance programs, analyze data for insights, lead training on AML and financial crime prevention, and build client relationships while upholding professional standards.

The Information Security Engineer will secure Palantir's Windows and Active Directory environment, focusing on attack surface reduction, tooling deployment, automation for security operations, and incident response.

The Forward Deployed Security Engineer manages government cybersecurity projects, achieving ATOs, translating regulations into technical requirements, and providing expertise during audits. Role involves collaboration with stakeholders and policy interpretation.

As a Senior Identity Security Engineer, you'll oversee identity security infrastructure, architect authentication systems, and lead identity threat modeling, while collaborating with engineering teams on governance and policy enforcement.

Lead vulnerability management: triage published vulnerabilities, assign risk ratings, assess exploitability, document impacted assets, recommend remediation, and drive global prioritization and incident response. Provide technical leadership, mentor team members, coordinate with Cyber and business partners, and use enterprise-authorized AI to accelerate validated investigation and remediation workflows.

Deliver generative AI-enabled source code review and application security engagements. Coordinate with leadership, organize resources, refine and present assessment findings, document recommendations, and mentor junior red team members. Support penetration testing projects, including external and web application testing, while managing engagement delivery and improving security assessment technologies and workflows.

Consult on Oracle application security and compliance: analyze client requirements, implement security controls, perform compliance audits, develop policies, guide regulatory adherence, train and manage junior staff, and help clients mitigate risks and protect sensitive data.

Partner with sales teams to design and present data security solutions, gather technical requirements, lead hands-on evaluations and custom configurations, design evaluation test plans, and guide prospects to successful outcomes.

Assess and harden software supply chain security by performing technical assessments, designing and implementing security controls and monitoring for build pipelines, investigating systems for vulnerabilities, creating tooling to address gaps, and leading cross-team projects to improve CrowdStrike's product security posture.

Lead and mature Affirm's third-party security risk program by designing controls, automating GRC workflows, evaluating third-party/cloud security, building integrations and dashboards, and advising stakeholders. Drive automation using Python and agentic coding tools, operate orchestration across systems, manage a portfolio of risk reviews, and establish metrics, processes, and reporting to scale security risk management.

Owner of Vannevar's authentication and authorization platform: build tenant-isolated auth systems, self-service user/group/permission admin UI, tooling to visualize and validate access, feature-flag and platform management interfaces, and shared authorization capabilities across products.

The Security Engineer will manage Liftoff's SIEM, lead the adoption of AI-augmented SOC tools, triage alerts, and improve incident response processes while collaborating on various security functions.

Lead and grow a Security Platform engineering team to design and operate centralized identity and access services (IdP integrations, SSO, authorization frameworks). Define roadmap, partner cross-functionally, and drive adoption of secure-by-default access controls across products.

Lead product security across the SDLC: threat modeling, secure architecture, vulnerability management, security testing and remediation, CI/CD/DevSecOps controls, AI security integration, bug bounty triage, developer training, and cross-functional security consulting to scale secure-by-design practices.

Lead and grow a security engineering team to design and operate cloud-native security controls, drive DevSecOps practices, conduct threat modeling and incident response, partner cross-functionally on security roadmaps, and ensure compliance with frameworks (NIST, SOC 2, ISO, etc.). Responsible for vulnerability management, identity and access controls, observability/SIEM, and security automation.

Lead client engagements to design and implement secure network architectures (Zero Trust, SASE/SSE, segmentation, OT security). Manage teams, mentor staff, oversee enterprise network security configurations, and ensure project delivery and quality. Collaborate with clients to align security strategies with business objectives and drive innovation in network security practices.

Lead GitLab’s Security Posture Management team within Product Security. Drive governed security capability rollouts across the software estate, establish secure configuration baselines, build software supply chain security, manage risk registers and posture metrics, support audit evidence, and provide customer-zero feedback to Product and Engineering. Hire, coach, and develop the team while representing GitLab’s security practices externally and driving measurable risk reduction in a remote, asynchronous environment.

Leads Forward’s application and product security program, including a team of senior engineers, penetration testing, vulnerability remediation, secure SDLC practices, and AI security. Owns testing standards, remediation workflows, exposure controls, pre-production security reviews, and security services. Partners with Engineering and executives to communicate risk and priorities while securing web applications, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and AI-built software.

Lead application security engineering across the SDLC using AI-assisted threat modeling, automated security testing, vulnerability prioritization, and secure-by-default controls. Partner with Engineering, Product, QA, DevOps, and AI platform teams to secure applications, APIs, cloud infrastructure, data, and AI/ML systems. Build security automation, CI/CD controls, policy-as-code guardrails, developer enablement, and proactive defenses against emerging threats such as prompt injection and data poisoning.

Design, implement, and support enterprise identity and access management using Microsoft Entra. Build controls for Conditional Access, MFA, identity governance, privileged access, authentication modernization, and Zero Trust. Develop PowerShell automation for identity lifecycle and governance, partner with technical and business teams, improve security operations, and mentor engineers. The role also includes on-call participation and occasional after-hours work.