Cyber Engineer (Digital Ecosystem) San Diego, California

Precise Systems Inc.; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Precise Systems Inc. seeks a highly experienced Cyber Engineer to design, automate, secure, administer, and sustain secure environments across development, production, and classified systems.

The role emphasizes vulnerability management, automated security pipelines, container hardening, system hardening, and compliance support throughout the lifecycle. The candidate will collaborate across cybersecurity, software, and infrastructure teams to reduce vulnerabilities, implement mitigations, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Current Security+ certificate.
• 10+ years in related cybersecurity engineering / infrastructure security roles.

Responsibilities

• Design, automate, and secure DevSecOps pipelines and environments.
• Manage vulnerability management across multi-environment stacks.
• Document Plans of Action and Milestones for findings and remediation.
• Implement secure configurations, patching, and hardening across Linux/Windows.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to communicate risks and mitigations.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent Experience

Security+ Certification

Tools

Tekton

Jenkins

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Job description

Precise Systems delivers integrated, mission-ready solutions that advance warfighter readiness and strengthen our nation's most critical defense programs. Through the power of our combined capabilities, we provide deep expertise in Advanced Engineering; Digital Transformation; Electromagnetic Warfare; Interactive Training & Simulation; Physical Sciences Research; Platform Lifecycle Support; and Foreign Military Sales. Unified by decades of trusted performance and expanded through strategic growth, our team applies innovative technologies, engineering rigor, and customer-focused execution to solve complex challenges and accelerate mission success. Guided by our commitment to partnership, precision, and performance, we deliver the scalable solutions and technical excellence our customers depend on- today and into the future.

We are seeking a highly experienced Cyber Engineer to support the design, automation, security, administration, and sustainment of secure mission-critical environments across development, production, classified, cloud, containerized, and DevSecOps-enabled systems. This role focuses on improving software and infrastructure security posture through vulnerability management, automated security pipelines, container hardening, system hardening, compliance support, and secure infrastructure operations. The candidate will work closely with cybersecurity, software development, infrastructure, platform, engineering, and mission stakeholders to reduce vulnerabilities, implement mitigations, support authorization activities, and maintain secure and reliable environments throughout the development, accreditation, and operational lifecycle. The role requires strong hands-on technical capability, cybersecurity judgment, automation experience, and the ability to communicate security risks and remediation strategies across technical and program audiences.

This role requires in-person support.

Duties

• Design, implement, and improve security automation pipelines within DevSecOps environments by supporting CI/CD integration, automated vulnerability scanning, container security checks, remediation workflows, and secure software delivery practices.
• Support vulnerability management across production, development, cloud, containerized, and classified environments by identifying, tracking, prioritizing, documenting, and remediating findings in accordance with cybersecurity requirements and ISSM-approved timelines.
• Manage and document Plans of Action and Milestones for security findings by maintaining visibility of vulnerability status, remediation progress, risk acceptance considerations, and continuous burndown of medium-level findings.
• Develop and implement mitigations for identified vulnerabilities by applying secure configuration changes, system hardening, patching, container hardening, access control improvements, and infrastructure security enhancements.
• Support the design, administration, and sustainment of secure infrastructure stacks across Linux, Windows Server, virtualization, private cloud, enterprise services, network infrastructure, and containerized environments.
• Implement and remediate security controls in alignment with NIST SP 800-53, DISA STIGs, RMF, ATO, Zero Trust, secure software development lifecycle practices, and other applicable government cybersecurity requirements.
• Support infrastructure and cybersecurity automation by using scripting, configuration management, Infrastructure as Code, and automation tools to streamline system builds, patching, hardening, monitoring, and compliance activities.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity, software, infrastructure, networking, platform, program, and mission stakeholders to troubleshoot complex technical issues, improve security best practices, support accreditation efforts, and communicate risks, dependencies, and recommendations.

Required Education

• Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent Experience
• Current Security+ Certificate

Required Experience

• 10+ years of related experience.
• Extensive experience supporting cybersecurity engineering, infrastructure security, systems administration, platform engineering, DevSecOps, vulnerability management, or related technical security roles.
• Experience supporting enterprise, cloud, containerized, hybrid, classified, application hosting, or compliance-driven technical environments.
• Experience with vulnerability management, system hardening, patching, secure configuration, access control, cyber risk tracking, and remediation planning.
• Experience working with Linux and Windows Server environments, including system administration, troubleshooting, monitoring, patching, and secure configuration activities.
• Experience using scripting, automation, configuration management, or Infrastructure as Code concepts to support cybersecurity and technical operations.
• Experience supporting DevSecOps pipelines, CI/CD workflows, secure software delivery, containerized environments, or automated security scanning.
• Understanding of RMF, ATO, NIST SP 800-53, DISA STIGs, secure SDLC principles, cybersecurity compliance, and authorization support activities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain technical issues, cybersecurity risks, dependencies, remediation actions, and recommendations to engineering, cybersecurity, program, and mission stakeholders.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with Tekton, Jenkins, CI/CD automation, automated Docker container builds, container security hardening, and DevSecOps security pipeline development.
• Experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift Container Platform, service mesh environments, container security