Senior /Principal Federal Security Engineer

The Senior/Principal Federal Security Engineer reports into Federal Information Security leadership, and will specialize in detection, response, and vulnerability triage.  They will also serve as a high-level technical authority responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of threat management. This hands-on engineering role will own the systems that identify and mitigate organizational risk as they relate primarily to the FedRAMP Program (FedRAMP Moderate and FedRAMP High).

The candidate should be familiar with policy and compliance requirements, including policy documentation and system requirements to successfully respond to potential audits as well as prior experience operating in Federally regulated environments.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design and maintain high-fidelity detection rules and analytics across the security stack (SIEM, EDR, CNAPP/CSPM) and cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Ability to run vulnerability scans, triage results, establish exploitability of reported vulnerabilities, recommend risk mitigation controls, and deploy controls where needed
• Develop and refine automated response playbooks for Incident Response (IR) and orchestration (SOAR).
• Lead the evaluation and integration of security technologies, ensuring scalability, resilience, and compliance. as it pertains to FedRAMP environments

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

 
Lead the Detection Lifecycle: Build and maintain our threat detection capabilities, from researching emerging TTPs to writing custom detection logic in our SIEM and EDR platforms.
 
Incident Response: Respond to alerts and triage findings coordinating across engineering, security, and leadership teams.
 
Modernize Vulnerability Management: Architect and maintain automation to prioritize vulnerabilities (from Code, to Containers, to Cloud) based on risk and exploitability.Automation: Operationalize security tasks by building, developing, and optimizing SOAR playbooks to automate containment and remediation.
 
Execute Proactive Threat Hunting: Design and lead hunt missions to identify threats that bypass traditional security controls, utilizing advanced forensics and log correlation techniques.
 
Industry Awareness: Incorporate industry news, events, IOCs, and other intelligence into our Detection and Response capabilities. 

WHAT YOU BRING

• U.S. Citizenship: Applicants must be United States citizens.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience with a minimum of 10 years of experience in Security Engineering, Security Architecture, Federal Security or similar
• Knowledge of U.S. Federal Government security compliance, risk management processes and requirements, including NIST RMF and NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 controls
• Experience with vulnerability scanning, remediation, and continuous monitoring (ConMon)
• Requires sufficient technical background to be able to interpret audit and compliance requirements, and be able to support basic evidence gathering needs in support of audits
• Ability to provide excellent written and oral communications by email, presentations, and mobile communication platforms (including: experience facilitating discussions, briefing senior managers, and conducting project meetings).
• Experience with continuous monitoring and Plans of Actions and Milestones (POA&Ms) is a plus
• Knowledge of local legal and regulatory security requirements including HIPAA, FedRAMP, and GDPR/privacy
• Flexible and collaborative approach to enabling and supporting the business
The Selected candidate must:
 
• Meet US persons on US soil requirements
• Undergo full background investigation/screening
• Undergo IAL3 requirements (Identity proofing to include I-9 document verification, biometric collection, and mailing address confirmation)