Top Senior Cyber Security Jobs in Washington, DC

Lead geopolitical risk and supply chain intelligence efforts, producing intelligence products, managing collection pipelines, and supporting cross-functional security operations. Mentor junior analysts and maintain industry relationships.

Design, build, and operate secure, resilient distributed systems for secrets and key management across Cloudflare's global network. Re-architect and strengthen internal PKI and machine/workload identity, support and run services (including on-call), and consult with teams to ensure secure system design and usage.

Manage client engagements to design and implement secure network architectures while mentoring junior staff and ensuring project success. Foster innovation and continuous improvement in network security practices.

Drive territory sales for ServiceNow Security and Identity solutions by building pipeline, closing complex enterprise deals (IGA/PAM, SecOps, data/cloud/app security), collaborating with account teams and partners, presenting to executives, and coaching internal teams to scale go-to-market efforts.

Drive application security by running SAST/SCA, threat modeling, vulnerability management, and remediation. Advise on secure architecture, train engineers, support pentests/bug bounties, and administer AWS Control Tower and IAM. Innovate with AI to improve AppSec tooling and 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.

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 remote Security Detection & Response team, build detection engineering and observability systems, drive telemetry onboarding, Panther and MITRE-aligned detections, Python automation, CI/CD workflows, and AI-assisted triage. Own incident response, investigations, cross-functional collaboration, and measurement of detection effectiveness.

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 detection, response, and digital forensics for security incidents. Monitor alerts, perform technical analysis, act as Incident Commander, build automation and runbooks, mentor engineers, and coordinate cross-team investigations and insider threat work.

Lead federal cloud security and compliance efforts to achieve and sustain ATOs. Implement and automate FedRAMP/IL-5/RMF controls, manage continuous monitoring, coordinate 3PAO audits, drive cloud security architecture, oversee change control/SCRs, and lead incident response and POA&M remediation using AI-enabled automation and monitoring across high-security GovCloud environments.

Lead AppSec efforts across product, platform, and AI features by owning secure SDLC, performing threat modeling and deep code reviews, driving vulnerability management and remediation, building AppSec tooling and automations (including AI-assisted workflows), and enabling engineering teams with secure design guidance and training.

Manage and coach a security operations team responsible for detection, investigation, and incident response. Perform hands-on work designing/tuning detections, operating SIEM/SOAR, leading incident response, improving automation and runbooks, and managing vendor relationships to protect patient and provider data.

Lead the creation and implementation of cloud security strategies; mentor junior staff; manage client relationships and uphold standards of conduct.

The Security Software Engineer will design and implement security controls for MongoDB Atlas, collaborating across engineering teams and ensuring adherence to high security standards.

Lead planning, deployment, tuning, and operational support of CrowdStrike Falcon's AI/ML detection and response capabilities. Implement and optimize ML models, develop automation playbooks and Falcon API integrations, troubleshoot AI-related issues, support incident response and threat hunting, and deliver customer workshops and collateral. Up to 25% travel.

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will lead security design and implementation for cloud infrastructures, mentor teams, and automate security solutions.

Lead competitive intelligence for CrowdStrike's cloud security portfolio, analyzing competitors' technical capabilities and market positioning. Provide deal support, win/loss analysis, and actionable guidance to Product, Sales, and senior leadership. Develop competitive materials, readiness plans, and recommendations to influence product strategy and GTM. Work autonomously and collaborate cross-functionally globally.

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.

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.

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 an Information Security Engineer focusing on DLP, you'll secure Palantir's data protection program, analyzing data flows, automating security operations, and collaborating with various teams on architectural improvements to combat data exfiltration and insider threats.

Sell Zscaler's data security portfolio (DLP, CASB, DSPM) to commercial accounts. Act as the specialist for customers and partners, build account-based strategies, collaborate with solution engineers and sales leadership, and close complex deals with stakeholders from technical practitioners to C-suite.

Lead product vision and strategy for security operations services, defining outcomes for managed investigation, response, threat hunting, and advisory services. Partner with customer security ops, product, and marketing teams to deliver AI-driven, automated features, represent Zscaler to customers, and drive measurable security outcomes and operational alignment.

As a Security Architect, you will build secure agent runtimes and systems, ensuring robust security capabilities in agentic AI solutions while conducting security evaluations.