Sr. Cybersecurity Engineer - Defense Search

Sr. Cybersecurity Engineer - Defense Search

OVERVIEW

Are you looking for a new career opportunity with an exciting Defense/Aerospace company?! Then we've got the right team for you! In this role, you're responsible for the duties listed below.

Immediate opening for a Sr. Cybersecurity Engineer in Reston, Virginia who possesses:

• Active TS/SCI with CI Poly
• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, security engineering, or related roles
• Experience designing, deploying, and developing application components in classified environments
• Experience implementing authentication and authorization frameworks
• Experience with zero trust architecture and principles

Email resumes to odrow@defensesearchusa.com and call 858.866.8676.

FULL DESCRIPTION: As Sr. Cybersecurity Engineer II, you'll design and develop technical architecture components enabling application teams to integrate with zero trust authentication and authorization services. You will work closely with application developers, security architects, and infrastructure teams to build secure-by-design integration patterns and accelerate adoption of zero trust principles across the enterprise.

The selected candidate will be responsible for:

• Design, develop, and maintain reusable frameworks, libraries, APIs, and reference implementations for zero trust authentication and authorization.
• Create developer guides, documentation, and best practices to enable smooth integration with security services.
• Implement and support fine-grained authorization patterns (entitlements, row-level security, ABAC).
• Collaborate with architects and engineers to ensure security services meet performance, usability, and compliance requirements.
• Conduct code reviews and provide guidance to development teams on secure coding and integration practices.
• Research emerging zero trust and identity/access management technologies to recommend improvements.

The selected candidate will also possess:

• Minimum 7 years professional experience in software engineering, security engineering, or related roles.
• Bachelors degree OR experience may used in lieu of degree.
• Active TS/SCI + CI Poly clearance.
• Experience designing, developing, and deploying application components leveraging AWS cloud services in IL6+ classified environments.
• Proven experience implementing authentication and authorization frameworks (e.g., OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML).
• Hands-on expertise with fine-grained access control models (entitlements, row-level security, ABAC).
• Strong proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Java, Go, Python) for building frameworks and libraries.
• Solid experience with zero trust architecture and principles.
• Experience creating developer documentation and integration guides.
• Strong grasp of secure coding practices and software development lifecycle (SDLC) security.

Salary Range: $133-161k/year

For immediate and confidential consideration, please email your resume to odrow@defensesearchusa.com and call 858.866.8676.

More information can be found at www.defensesearchusa.com