Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

*This position is contingent upon a future opening with Gunnison.

Salary: $135,000 - $145,000/year

Work Location: On-site 5 days per week, Washington, DC.

• Support the Cyber Security SME in implementing and maintaining enterprise security measures.
• Develop, enhance, and maintain Security Operations Center (SOC) standard operating procedures (SOPs) and assessment operations processes.
• Ensure accountability, integrity, confidentiality, and protection of operational security processes and data.
• Perform vulnerability analysis, review program-level documentation (system requirements, architectures, design documents, test plans, security plans), and provide technical recommendations.
• Develop and document security evaluation plans, test procedures, and assessment methodologies.
• Conduct hands-on security testing, analyzing results, identifying risk, and recommending countermeasures.
• Assess and calculate risk based on identified threats, vulnerabilities, and security control weaknesses.
• Identify and document mitigation strategies for threats, vulnerabilities, and deficiencies.
• Supporting the design, development, and implementation of security-related systems, tools, and assessment capabilities.
• Participate in and/or lead technical exchange meetings, document action items and outcomes, and brief leadership on security engineering status and results.
• Support SOC alert analysis, triage, escalation, containment actions, and continuous improvement of detection and response use cases.
• Lead the engineering and implementation of secure cloud solutions, primarily in Microsoft Azure, in alignment with NTIA’s cybersecurity strategy and federal compliance mandates (NIST, FISMA, FedRAMP).