Security Engineering Lead

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $112k - $179k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Peraton

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10,000+ employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Peraton is a mission-focused enterprise that supports national security initiatives through advanced IT and cyber services. They provide capabilities in areas such as cyber defense, cloud operations, engineering, and intelligence. With a commitment to solving complex challenges, Peraton integrates data-driven technologies to ensure mission success for their military and government clients.

📋 Description

• Provide technical leadership for the design, implementation, and evolution of enterprise security capabilities across complex federal environments • Lead security architecture and engineering initiatives protecting cloud infrastructure, applications, networks, identities, and sensitive data • Apply federal security requirements, including NIST SP 800-53, FedRAMP baselines, and agency-specific policies and standards • Partner with cloud platform, infrastructure, and compliance teams to implement controls for identity, encryption, logging, vulnerability management, configuration management, and incident response • Lead security engineering activities supporting ATO authorization and maintenance, including control implementation, authorization package development, risk remediation, and continuous monitoring • Support security assessments, vulnerability remediation, continuous monitoring, and evidence collection • Identify security gaps, evaluate technical risks, and develop remediation strategies • Lead engineering and implementation of Zero Trust capabilities across large-scale federal enterprise environments • Apply Zero Trust principles across identity, devices, networks, applications, workloads, and data • Assess emerging AI-enabled security capabilities for effectiveness, scalability, data protection, and operational risk • Support secure adoption of AI-enabled technologies through access controls, monitoring, data governance, and risk management

🎯 Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen • Ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust level clearance • Bachelor's Degree and 12 years of experience, Master's Degree and 10 years of experience, Associate's Degree and 14 years, or High School Diploma or equivalent and 16 years of experience • One or more relevant certifications: CISSP, CISM, CASP, CCISO, Security+, or CAP • Proven experience supporting ATO efforts within FedRAMP High or other federal environments • Experience designing, implementing, or engineering security controls in FedRAMP High or comparably stringent federal cloud environments • Strong understanding of NIST SP 800-53, federal security requirements, cloud security controls, and continuous monitoring practices • Experience implementing or engineering Zero Trust capabilities across large, complex enterprise or federal environments • Experience with cloud security architecture, identity and access management, network security, encryption, logging, vulnerability management, and security monitoring • Ability to translate security frameworks and architectural requirements into practical technical implementations • Experience with AWS GovCloud, Microsoft Azure Government, or other government cloud environments • Direct experience supporting FedRAMP High authorization, continuous monitoring, or security control assessment activities for federal cloud services is preferred • Experience implementing federal Zero Trust architectures aligned with applicable federal guidance and agency roadmaps is preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Life insurance • Health savings account • Short-term disability • Long-term disability • Employee assistance program (EAP) • Parental leave • 401(k) • Paid time off (PTO) for vacation • Company-paid holidays • Eligible employees may be eligible for overtime • Shift differential • Discretionary bonus

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