DCO Senior - TS/SCI

Our Deloitte Cyber team understands the unique challenges and opportunities businesses face in cybersecurity. Join our team to deliver powerful solutions to help our clients navigate the ever-changing threat landscape. Through powerful solutions and managed services that simplify complexity, we enable our clients to operate with resilience, grow with confidence, and proactively manage to secure success.

Recruiting for this role ends on July 31, 2025.

We require a seasoned Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO) Engineer with a desire to actively defend the mission systems critical to our national defense.

As a senior engineer the candidate will work with other engineers to apply expertise on multiple complex work assignments. Assignments may be broad in nature, requiring originality and innovation in determining how to accomplish tasks.

Work you'll do

• Operate with appreciable latitude in developing methodology and presenting solutions to problems.
• Contribute to deliverables and performance metrics where applicable.
• Consult on IT and cyber defensive architecture and technologies.
• Assess assigned cyber key terrain to thoroughly understand the mission, architecture and associated threat.
• Advise on technical design and implementation of DCO capabilities required to effectively protect, detect and respond to cyber threats and attacks.
• Research cyber defense technologies for best fit based on mission, architecture and current threat.
• Design, implement, configure and/or tune cyber defensive technology.
• Author documentation to include SOPs, checklists, implementation guides, architecture diagrams, crew binders, etc. to support DCO.
• Adapt technologies to meet the mission architecture and threat.

The Team

Deloitte's Government and Public Services (GPS) practice - our people, ideas, technology and outcomes-is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

Our Cyber Defense & Resilience offering assists clients in defending against advanced threats by transforming security operations, monitoring technology, data analytics, and threat intelligence. Helps manage and protect dynamic attack surfaces and provides rapid crisis and cyber incident response, ensuring clients can be ready for, respond to, and recover from business disruptions.

Qualifications

Required:

• BS degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Information Systems, or Computer Science
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
• Must be able to work full time on-site in Denver, CO
• Active Top Secret security clearance required
• Experience using cyber reconnaissance to support a federal client
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure
• Experience utilizing software asset management
• 7 years of technical experience in cyber-defense or cyber security related fields (e.g., engineering, networking, systems integration, solutions etc.)

Preferred:

• Prior professional services or federal consulting experience
• 7 years of professional technical experience in the fields below:
  • Experience years must come from at least 2 of the following areas:
    Container or virtual environments (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, VMware, AWS)
    In-band and out-of-band test access points for network traffic collection and aggregation (e.g. Gigamon)
    Linux operating systems (Red Hat, Kali, etc.)
• Previous Security Operations Center experience
• Experience in mobile and endpoint security
• Certifications (e.g., CompTIA Security+, CEH, CISSP)

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $88,600.00 to $147,600.00.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.

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