Top Senior Cyber Security Jobs in Washington, DC

Own Playlist’s technical GRC architecture, including a unified Master Control List, cross-framework mappings, control lifecycles, evidence requirements, and audit automation. Build scalable GRC tooling and AI-powered workflows for risk quantification, vendor assessments, evidence collection, and compliance monitoring. Partner with Security Engineering, Legal, Finance, and product teams to translate regulatory requirements into actionable controls and harmonize compliance across multiple brands.

Owns and strengthens the security posture of cloud-based SaaS and Microsoft 365 environments. Responsibilities include vulnerability management, incident response, cloud and endpoint hardening, identity and data protection, secure configuration, monitoring, compliance evidence, customer security reviews, and risk management aligned with HITRUST, HIPAA, NIST, and related frameworks.

Designs, implements, configures, and supports enterprise cybersecurity solutions across IAM, endpoint, network, email, application, cloud, and security awareness domains. Conducts vulnerability assessments, threat hunting, incident investigation, security tool tuning, policy development, and security architecture reviews. Serves as a security subject matter expert on technology projects, collaborates with an MSSP, provides incident escalation support, and maintains availability for critical security operations.

Supports federal technology programs by designing and implementing information security policies, conducting audits and risk assessments, evaluating compliance, managing security assets, and advising leadership on cybersecurity and systems security. The role collaborates with government leaders, facility managers, software teams, and security offices; communicates risks and initiatives; and helps improve security processes across applications, facilities, and infrastructure.

Lead and own the enterprise SSPM program: implement and manage SSPM platform, onboard SaaS apps, tune controls, integrate with SIEM/SOAR/ITSM/identity, perform threat modeling and risk assessments, drive remediation, support compliance mapping, report metrics, and partner across cyber, IT, risk, and business teams to reduce data exposure and improve SaaS security posture.

Own the strategy, roadmap, delivery, and lifecycle of enterprise data security products. Lead data governance, discovery, classification, DLP, access governance, compliance, and secure-by-design capabilities. Manage backlogs, Agile delivery, KPIs, stakeholder communication, and risk reduction outcomes while integrating AI to improve security workflows and productivity.

Leads architecture and implementation of Microsoft Red Team visibility, telemetry, monitoring, detection, alerting, deconfliction, and operational security capabilities. Designs scalable services and data pipelines, maintains authoritative operational asset inventories, identifies systemic security gaps, and drives durable engineering solutions. Provides hands-on technical leadership, architecture reviews, debugging, incident response, mentorship, and cross-organizational influence while enabling authentic Red Team operations with strong defensive visibility and control.

Own corporate detection and response, incident response, endpoint security, identity and SaaS security, Google Workspace governance, and corporate-to-production monitoring. Build LLM-driven security triage with measured evaluation, automate enforcement through vendor APIs, improve detection fidelity, and partner with engineering to ship security improvements. Manage Mac fleet security, phishing-resistant authentication, access reviews, DLP, OAuth governance, and containment playbooks.

Engineer and maintain enterprise network security platforms across on-premises and cloud environments. Design firewall and network security solutions, troubleshoot complex connectivity and security issues, and automate infrastructure operations using scripting, APIs, Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, and CI/CD pipelines. Support platform upgrades, vulnerability remediation, monitoring integrations, validation processes, and modernization initiatives while collaborating with network, cloud, application, and security teams.

Leads enterprise IAM security strategy, governance, and risk management across human, machine, service, workload, and AI-agent identities. Establishes authentication, authorization, lifecycle, access-control, and policy standards; translates regulatory and audit requirements into sustainable controls; drives remediation and modernization; and advises senior stakeholders. The role advances zero trust, least privilege, passwordless authentication, policy-as-code, identity threat detection, and secure access patterns across cloud, APIs, applications, and hybrid environments.

Monitor and analyze security events, lead incident response and employee investigations, conduct digital forensics, and communicate findings to technical, executive, legal, and compliance stakeholders. Build investigation scripts, runbooks, automated workflows, and security operations capabilities. Mentor engineers and support insider threat initiatives while collaborating across teams on cloud security and incident response.

Maintain and mature Mozilla's ISMS and support ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2 audit programs. Author system descriptions and policies, manage risk treatment plans, track remediation, support internal audits, and partner with Engineering, Legal, Privacy, and Product to drive control ownership and audit readiness.

Maintain and mature Mozilla's ISMS, support ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2 audits, author compliance narratives, track remediation, lead policy program, scale compliance for products, and partner with cross-functional teams to drive control ownership and audit readiness.

Lead enterprise security operations, resilience, incident response, threat intelligence, cloud security, IAM, and risk management. Serve as deputy to the CISO and primary incident commander while advising executives on cyber risk. Build and scale multidisciplinary security teams, modernize cloud-native defenses, embed security-by-design across products and AI/ML systems, and establish metrics-driven governance, automation, regulatory alignment, and business-focused security strategies.

Build and scale platform security through architecture reviews, threat modeling, IaC hardening, IAM improvements, Kubernetes security, and disaster recovery exercises. Develop automation for detection, response, compliance, onboarding, access anomaly detection, and self-service security posture checks. Investigate incidents, track root-cause remediation, support SOC 2 evidence collection, and collaborate closely with software engineers on secure development and incident response.

Conduct penetration tests across infrastructure, networks, web and mobile applications, and cloud environments. Perform application and cloud security testing, simulate adversary techniques, develop custom security tools, document vulnerabilities, validate remediation, and support HIPAA, SOC 2, and PCI DSS compliance. Collaborate with engineering and product teams, track emerging threats, and contribute to purple-team exercises, tabletop events, and security training.

Leads enterprise security architecture by assessing threats, performing application security assessments and threat modeling, reviewing designs, and integrating controls into SDLC and DevSecOps environments. Advises business and engineering stakeholders on secure solutions, remediates vulnerabilities, protects APIs, web applications, and cloud workloads, and improves security processes through automation and standardization.

Lead enterprise security architecture across cloud, application, infrastructure, identity, data, and third-party environments. Develop security principles, standards, patterns, and controls; review designs; conduct threat modeling and risk assessments; guide secure-by-design implementations; and advise technical and business stakeholders. The role also supports regulatory compliance, evaluates security technologies, and strengthens organizational security practices.

Manages cybersecurity compliance and authorization for Air Force NIPR systems. Responsibilities include developing and maintaining system security plans, supporting RMF accreditation, conducting audits and inspections, managing POA&Ms, STIGs, IAVM compliance, continuous monitoring, FISMA requirements, security testing, and ATO activities. The role also provides tactical security guidance, assesses technology risks, and coordinates cybersecurity activities across multi-contractor teams and cloud and on-premises environments.

Design and ship product security improvements covering authentication, authorization, session and token handling, secrets management, third-party access, abuse detection, fraud prevention, and account takeover defense. Threat-model systems, remediate vulnerabilities, build secure developer tooling, and partner with Product, Engineering, and Trust & Safety. Mentor engineers and use AI-assisted development while balancing security controls with user experience.

Assesses enterprise information security risks, performs vulnerability and security posture assessments, and coordinates remediation across networks, systems, applications, and vendors. Develops security policies and standards aligned with SOX, PCI, HIPAA, and NIST guidance; supports audits, incident response, training, access monitoring, and security projects. Communicates technical risks and corrective actions to technical and nontechnical stakeholders while mentoring teams and managing competing priorities.

Perform advanced threat hunting and deep analysis of attacker activity across on-premises and cloud environments, notify customers of imminent threats, build proof-of-concept hunting tools and automations, synthesize findings into mitigation recommendations, and drive product/tool improvements by transferring threat intelligence and investigation best practices to engineering and customer teams.

Assess product and application architectures, develop threat models, identify security risks, and guide engineering teams on remediation. Promote security culture through training, mentoring, vulnerability management, and internal security initiatives. Build security tooling, automation, patterns, and workflows that embed secure-by-design practices across engineering. Partner with product managers, designers, and engineers to secure complex, large-scale cloud systems.

Build and automate security infrastructure across AWS and Kubernetes, including cryptographic material lifecycle, telemetry pipelines, policy-as-code, compliance monitoring, and incident-response tooling. Develop agentic AI workflows using coding assistants, MCP integrations, and custom harnesses. Apply threat modeling and secure architecture review while partnering with engineering, risk, auditors, vendors, and clients. The role emphasizes production software, cloud-native automation, continuous control monitoring, and eliminating manual security toil.

Build and operate a reliable security platform across hundreds of AWS environments. Responsibilities include security telemetry and OpenSearch infrastructure, GitOps deployments, Kubernetes and AWS security controls, cross-account and multi-region architecture, Python automation, and agentic AI workflows. The role participates in on-call support, security incident enablement, audit evidence automation, and reliability improvements while collaborating with Security Operations, Risk, and SRE teams.