Top Cyber Security Jobs in Washington, DC

Support day-to-day GRC operations: assess third-party vendors, maintain vendor risk register, track remediation and control evidence, assist with internal control testing and audits (SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS), maintain policies, prepare reporting, and contribute to process improvements.

Deploy and configure Rapid7 security products for post-sales customers, applying security best practices and documenting implementation decisions. Build custom dashboards, reporting workflows, integrations, and data pipelines using Python, SQL, and REST APIs. Support pre-sales scoping, resolve deployment challenges, collaborate across teams, improve internal delivery processes, and occasionally travel for customer engagements.

Leads and mentors a product security engineering team while remaining hands-on. Owns certification, accreditation, DISA STIG hardening, SOC 2, ISO 27001, audit readiness, vulnerability remediation, security tooling, and authorization initiatives. Coordinates with Compliance, Legal, Sales Engineering, and customers; tracks remediation SLAs and certification posture; establishes evidence collection processes; and translates technical security strategy into an executable roadmap.

Lead enterprise eDiscovery and insider-risk investigations by collecting, preserving, analyzing, and reviewing data from cloud infrastructure, endpoints, and repositories. Build AI-powered automation, correlate activity logs into investigative timelines, manage legal holds and governance policies, support digital forensics, and produce structured evidence packages for Security, Legal, HR, and investigative teams.

Administer and improve Workday and multi-platform HR security, including role-based access, security groups, access reviews, request approvals, audit support, governance documentation, and compliance controls. Evaluate elevated access requests, identify risks, resolve routine issues, coordinate remediation, and escalate complex decisions. Partner with HR, IT, Legal, and Compliance stakeholders to strengthen policies, processes, and least-privilege access across Workday, Peakon, UKG, Prism, and HR data platforms.

Lead customer-facing security architecture for federal cloud, Kubernetes, GPU, and HPC environments. Design accredited and classified deployments, translate FedRAMP, RMF, DoD, CMMC, and STIG requirements into technical controls, and support ATO documentation and assessments. Lead proofs of concept, workload reviews, compliance automation, technical workshops, and roadmap development. Partner with federal customers, defense organizations, compliance teams, and engineering groups while supporting secure air-gapped environments and emerging AI security solutions.

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.

Build and scale backend security platform services, including authentication, authorization, identity infrastructure, permission systems, and data models. Lead cross-team technical initiatives, standardize security solutions, collaborate with compliance and mission stakeholders, and influence architecture and engineering standards. The role requires strong system design, backend development, security expertise, technical leadership, and the ability to operate in sensitive environments.

Leads secure enterprise architecture design and GitLab Professional Services implementations across application security, cloud security, DevSecOps, identity, vulnerability management, and compliance. Guides SaaS, Self-Managed, and Dedicated deployment decisions; leads CI/CD, source control, and security-tool migrations; conducts risk assessments and threat modeling; supports pre-sales scoping and statements of work; coordinates cross-functional delivery; mentors consultants; and develops security enablement materials.

Monitor and investigate cybersecurity alerts, analyze endpoint telemetry, logs, forensic artifacts, malware, and Microsoft 365 activity, then coordinate threat remediation. The analyst also supports escalations, contributes to detection engineering and tuning, and collaborates across the SOC. The role requires knowledge of operating systems, enterprise administration, networking, web security, attacker techniques, and malware analysis while working a remote weekend 4x10 shift after training.

Monitor, triage, investigate, and respond to cybersecurity alerts and intrusions. Analyze EDR telemetry, logs, forensic artifacts, malware, and Microsoft 365 activity; determine root causes and recommend remediation. Support threat-related escalations, contribute to detection engineering and tuning, and collaborate across teams. The role requires familiarity with endpoint attack surfaces, threat actor techniques, Windows and domain administration, networking, web security, and basic malware analysis.

Lead complex security investigations across endpoint, identity, cloud, email, SaaS, and network environments. Own incidents through containment, remediation coordination, documentation, and post-incident review. Tune detections, queries, dashboards, workflows, and SOAR playbooks; improve SOC metrics, threat coverage, alert fidelity, and response processes. Partner on vulnerability and cloud-risk remediation, participate in global on-call rotation, use approved AI capabilities responsibly, and mentor analysts.

Supports cybersecurity compliance and accreditation for classified information systems across multiple classification levels. Responsibilities include implementing RMF and NIST 800-53 controls, maintaining SSPs and POA&Ms, managing vulnerabilities, analyzing ACAS/Nessus scans, supporting incident response and audits, ensuring STIG compliance, overseeing Cross Domain Solutions, maintaining secure baselines, and advising engineers and administrators on secure designs and multi-level security environments.

Leads the company’s information security operations and reports to the CISO. Oversees SIEM, threat detection, vulnerability management, penetration testing, incident response, SOC 2 Type II compliance, third-party risk, security awareness, cloud and endpoint security, and regulatory cybersecurity coordination. Manages security policies, breach readiness, tabletop exercises, KPIs, audits, and emerging technology evaluations while partnering with IT, infrastructure, compliance, regulators, and executive leadership.

Secure CrowdStrike’s software supply chain and code-hosting environments by assessing GitHub organizations, open-source integrations, repositories, dependencies, and third-party packages. Implement repository guardrails, secret scanning, access controls, and automation; investigate supply-chain threats such as typosquatting and dependency confusion; promote secure coding and open-source compliance; and collaborate with engineering teams on security initiatives.

Build and maintain custom security tools, middleware, automation, APIs, integrations, dashboards, and security workflows. Integrate identity, endpoint, SIEM, SaaS, and other security platforms using APIs, cloud services, containers, and CI/CD. Translate security policies into secure, code-driven solutions while supporting SOAR, continuous monitoring, compliance, and cross-functional collaboration.

Partners with engineering teams to identify and remediate product security risks across the software development lifecycle. Responsibilities include threat modeling, secure architecture and coding guidance, security testing, vulnerability prioritization, penetration testing coordination, bug bounty remediation, application monitoring, developer training, and secure deployment practices. The role also advances AI-assisted security tooling, DevSecOps practices, security champions, Kubernetes and container security, and scalable risk-based remediation frameworks.

Own day-to-day IT and information security operations for a fully remote Mac fleet. Responsibilities include endpoint lifecycle management, identity and access administration, Google Workspace, helpdesk support, asset coordination, CrowdStrike EDR monitoring, DLP controls, Datadog SIEM alerting, security hygiene, access reviews, and SOC 2 and PCI evidence collection. The role requires autonomous ownership, automation, clear documentation, cross-functional collaboration, and approximately 4–6 years of experience beyond ticket-only support.

Conduct advanced application security research across GitLab’s DevSecOps and AI-powered platforms. Identify and exploit novel, systemic, and chained vulnerabilities; develop proof-of-concept exploits, testing methodologies, and research automation; assess AI attack vectors and open-source dependencies; drive remediation and security improvements; advise engineering teams, contribute to roadmaps, mentor researchers, and share findings with the security community.

Conducts advanced application security research across GitLab’s DevSecOps and AI-powered platforms. Responsibilities include discovering and exploiting systemic vulnerabilities, penetration testing, developing proof-of-concept exploits, researching AI and agentic security threats, building automated research tooling, coordinating remediation, mentoring security professionals, and communicating findings to engineering and security communities.

Lead public sector security compliance initiatives, including FedRAMP continuous monitoring, audits, certifications, GRC strategy, compliance automation, documentation, customer support, and regulatory analysis. Collaborate with IT, Product, Engineering, Security, Legal, auditors, and government customers to strengthen compliance across GitLab’s SaaS and self-managed offerings.

Own and improve vulnerability management across cloud, on-premises, network, and endpoint environments. Responsibilities include scanning, triage, risk-based prioritization, remediation coordination, SLA tracking, exception management, closure validation, asset reconciliation, reporting, incident support, on-call participation, and audit documentation. The role partners with Engineering, SRE, IT, and Infrastructure teams and uses security tooling and AI-assisted workflows to reduce exposure and recurring vulnerabilities.

Own and evolve GitLab’s authorization systems across its Ruby on Rails monolith and next-generation Rust policy engine. Design fine-grained permissions for users, tokens, roles, and AI agents; secure GraphQL and REST APIs; lead feature-flagged rollouts and migrations; improve performance and reliability; and collaborate across authentication, platform, AI, and modular-service teams in a distributed asynchronous environment.

Leads Oracle Cloud security design, configuration, governance, access controls, segregation of duties, risk management, compliance, and security assessments. Supports Oracle enterprise application implementations, integrations, troubleshooting, reporting, configuration, and migration activities. Collaborates with analysts, developers, users, and management to define requirements, develop solutions, prepare design documentation, and educate stakeholders. Requires extensive Oracle Cloud security, finance systems, PeopleSoft Financials, audit, access lifecycle, and implementation experience.

Owns GitLab’s global security awareness and human-risk program, including training, phishing simulations, behavior-change initiatives, security culture campaigns, multimedia content, platform administration, reporting, vendor management, policy support, audit evidence, and remediation tracking. The role requires measurable risk reduction across a globally distributed enterprise and strategic influence across technical and non-technical teams.