Security Engineer

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Experience
7+ years required
Where you can live
Location not stated
Skills and tools
agile, documentation, compliance
Degree or licence
Mentioned (bachelors)
Job type
Full-time

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Job details

Where you can work
Location not stated
Employment type
Full-time
Advertised pay
$160K–170K/yr
Experience
7+ years required
Employer publication date
9 November 2026
First recorded by Psst
10 November 2026
Last checked at the source
11 November 2026

About the job

About the company

At the company we know that action defines the outcome and new challenges require new solutions. That’s why we always look to the future and embrace change with an unmovable spirit and the courage to build for what comes next.

Our vision is to bring adaptive innovation to support our nation's most important missions through the seamless integration of advanced technologies, elite minds, and unparalleled agility—leveraging a foundation of speed, flexibility, and ingenuity to strengthen and protect our nation’s vital interests.

Requisition #: 2001

Job Title: Security Engineer

Location: Remote

Clearance Level: Ability to Obtain and Maintain a Public Trust Clearance

Job Description

SUMMARY

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Security Engineer to support and enhance our cybersecurity operations. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining security solutions that protect enterprise systems, applications, networks, and data. This role requires a strong technical background, a proactive approach to problem-solving, and a commitment to supporting mission and customer objectives.

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

  • A Security Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, maintaining, and improving security solutions that protect an organization's systems, networks, applications, and data from cyber threats.
  • This role involves monitoring security tools and alerts, conducting vulnerability assessments, supporting incident response and remediation efforts, implementing security controls, and ensuring compliance with organizational and regulatory requirements.
  • Security Engineers collaborate closely with SOC analysts, system administrators, developers, and stakeholders to identify risks, strengthen security posture, and support mission objectives.
  • They also develop security documentation, support audits and assessments, analyze emerging threats, recommend process improvements, and stay current on evolving cybersecurity trends and technologies to enhance operational effectiveness and reduce organizational risk

Education and Years of Experience

  • Bachelors Degree, 7 years of experience

Required Skills

  • Engineering, deploying, and sustaining the enterprise network security infrastructure-next-generation firewalls, SASE/ZTNA, and SD-WAN-to ensure availability, performance, and a defensible security posture.
  • Operating and maintaining defensive platforms day-to-day, including configuration management, policy tuning, software/firmware lifecycle and patching, capacity planning, and health monitoring.
  • Leading engineering projects end-to-end-requirements, design, testing, and implementation-for new and upgraded capabilities such as SASE/ZTNA and SD-WAN across enterprise and hybrid (on-premises and cloud) environments.
  • Developing and maintaining secure configuration baselines, standard operating procedures, and engineering documentation, and automating repeatable configuration and operational tasks to improve consistency and reduce manual effort.
  • Translating threat intelligence and detection findings into infrastructure-level defensive improvements-firewall policy, segmentation, access control, and traffic inspection-to harden the environment against current adversary tactics.
  • Collaborating with the SOC, logging and observability, and network operations teams, and with product vendors, to integrate capabilities, resolve issues, and align infrastructure with operational and mission requirements.
  • Operating and supporting intrusion detection sensor infrastructure to ensure reliable security telemetry delivery to the SOC and logging/observability teams.
  • Identifying gaps in defensive coverage, resilience, and operational processes; recommending and implementing improvements; and providing technical input to architecture and roadmap decisions.

Preferred Skills

  • Security Engineering Certifications

In addition, the company invests in its employees beyond just compensation.  The company’s benefits offerings include, dependent upon position, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, Holiday Pay, short-term and long-term Disability, Retirement and Learning and Development opportunities as well as other optional benefit elections.

Our Core Values

Employees of the company are our number one priority, and the importance we place on our culture here is fundamental. Our culture is alive and evolving, but it always stays true to its roots. Here, you are valued as a family member, and we believe that we can accomplish great things together. The company has been highly successful in the past few years due to our employees and the culture we create together.

What makes us Agile? We call it the 6Hs, the values that define our culture and guide everything we do. Together, these values infuse vibrancy, integrity, and a tireless work ethic into advancing the most important national security and critical civilian missions. It's how we show up every day. It's who we are.

Happy - Be Infectious. Happiness multiplies and creates a positive and connected environment where motivation and satisfaction have an outsized effect on everything we do.

Helpful - Be Supportive. Being helpful is the foundation of teamwork, resulting in a supportive atmosphere where collaboration flourishes, and collective success is celebrated.

Honest - Be Trustworthy.Honesty serves as our compass, ensuring transparent communication and ethical conduct, essential to who we are and the complex domains we support.

Humble - Be Grounded.Success is not achieved alone, humility ensures a culture of mutual respect, encouraging open communication, and a willingness to learn from one another and take on any task.

Hungry - Be Eager.Our hunger for excellence drives an insatiable appetite for innovation and continuous improvement, propelling us forward in the face of new and unprecedented challenges.

Hustle - Be Driven.Hustle is reflected in our relentless work ethic, where we are each committed to going above and beyond to advance the mission and achieve success.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

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