Lead Security Engineer

🕒 6 days ago

🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Centex Technologies

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Logistics • Marketing

Centex Technologies is a leading company in the IT industry, recognized for its expertise in cybersecurity, digital transformation, DevOps, and forensic investigations. Established in 2006, Centex Technologies provides innovative, secure, and efficient IT solutions to diverse clients across the public and private sectors. The company prides itself on fostering long-term relationships with clients and aims to catalyze impactful change and growth through tailor-made solutions. With a robust presence throughout the United States and a strategic team located in Texas, Colorado, Florida, and the Washington Metropolitan area, Centex Technologies is committed to elevating client operations and achieving success in every project.

📋 Description

• Design and review security architectures, trust boundaries, defensive controls, and secure integration patterns • Engineer identity, endpoint, network, cloud, application, logging, vulnerability-management, and data-protection capabilities • Lead technical risk assessments, threat modeling, vulnerability analysis, remediation planning, and security testing • Support incident investigation, containment, recovery, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions • Set engineering standards, review designs, mentor contributors, and coordinate security work across programs • Support NIST, RMF, CMMC, FedRAMP, or contract-specific security documentation and evidence as applicable • Collaborate across technical, program, and customer teams

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent directly relevant experience • Seven or more years of cybersecurity or security engineering experience, including technical leadership of complex security work • Deep knowledge of security architecture, identity, networks, endpoints, cloud, vulnerability management, incident response, and secure engineering • Ability to lead risk-based decisions and produce clear technical and customer-facing documentation • Employment subject to required background screening • Some assignments may require the ability to obtain and maintain a public trust determination or security clearance • Preferred: Experience supporting federal, defense, CUI, classified, FedRAMP, or other regulated environments • Preferred: CISSP, CCSP, GIAC, Security+, cloud-security, or other role-relevant certification • Preferred: Experience with RMF authorization packages, security automation, zero trust, or DevSecOps

🏖️ Benefits

• Work remotely within the United States • Occasional travel or work outside normal hours may be required based on customer and program needs • Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities during the application process and employment