Cybersecurity/Technical Engineer

Steampunk; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Steampunk is seeking a Cybersecurity/Technical Engineer to design, implement, and maintain secure systems across enterprise environments. You will support security architecture, IAM, authentication and authorization hardening, vulnerability management, and continuous monitoring throughout the system lifecycle.

You will work with cross-functional teams to ensure security is integrated into design and operation, identify vulnerabilities, and apply least-privilege controls while keeping security

Qualifications

• Ability to obtain and maintain a government security clearance.
• Bachelor's degree in a related technical discipline or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of cybersecurity engineering, security architecture, or related work.
• Hands-on experience securing enterprise systems and environments.
• Experience with IAM, authentication, authorization, and least-privilege principles.
• Experience identifying, assessing, tracking, and supporting remediation of vulnerabilities.
• Experience with continuous security monitoring and vulnerability management.
• Knowledge of security architecture, hardening, secure configuration, and controls.
• Experience with security monitoring, endpoint security, or cloud security technologies.
• Understanding lifecycle security integration, risk mitigation actions, and documenting findings.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement systems with security requirements across the lifecycle.
• Support security architecture and engineering to align with best practices.
• Implement and maintain IAM controls including authentication/authorization.
• Apply least-privilege access to reduce security risks.
• Assess and harden configurations, authentication, and authorization.
• Identify, assess, document, and track vulnerabilities across environments.
• Collaborate with teams to remediate vulnerabilities and weaknesses.
• Conduct follow-up assessments and continuous monitoring for new or recurring issues.
• Implement and support tools for vulnerability identification, monitoring, and control validation.
• Monitor security data to identify vulnerabilities, threats, and anomalous activity.
• Support security activities through design, implementation, operation, and changes.
• Evaluate technical changes for potential security impacts.
• Collaborate with administrators, cloud engineers, software engineers, and security teams.
• Support security documentation, remediation tracking, and reporting.
• Maintain awareness of evolving vulnerabilities and cybersecurity practices.

Skills

IAM

Vulnerability mgmt

Security architecture

System hardening

Cloud security

Incident response

Security monitoring

Compliance awareness

Education

Bachelor's in Cybersecurity

Tools

CrowdStrike

Tanium

Wiz

Splunk

Job description

Overview

We are seeking a Cybersecurity/Technical Engineer responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining secure systems across complex enterprise environments. This role will support security architecture, identity and access management (IAM), authentication and authorization hardening, vulnerability management, and continuous security monitoring throughout the system lifecycle.

The Cybersecurity/Technical Engineer will work across technical teams to ensure security requirements are incorporated into system design and implementation, identify and track vulnerabilities, evaluate security controls, and monitor environments for emerging risks. This role requires broad hands-on cybersecurity experience and the ability to apply security principles across systems, infrastructure, applications, and cloud environments.

Contributions

• Design and implement systems and technical solutions with security requirements incorporated throughout the system lifecycle
• Support security architecture and engineering activities to ensure systems align with established security requirements and best practices
• Implement and maintain identity and access management (IAM) controls, including authentication and authorization mechanisms
• Apply least-privilege principles and access controls to reduce unauthorized access and security risk
• Assess and harden systems, configurations, authentication mechanisms, and authorization controls
• Identify, assess, document, and track vulnerabilities across systems and environments
• Partner with technical teams to prioritize and remediate identified vulnerabilities and security weaknesses
• Conduct follow-up assessments and continuous monitoring to identify newly introduced or recurring vulnerabilities
• Implement and support tools and processes used for vulnerability identification, security monitoring, and control validation
• Monitor systems and security data to identify potential vulnerabilities, configuration weaknesses, threats, and anomalous activity
• Support security activities throughout the system lifecycle, including design, implementation, operation, maintenance, and system changes
• Evaluate technical changes and system configurations for potential security impacts
• Collaborate with system administrators, cloud engineers, software engineers, cybersecurity teams, and other technical stakeholders to implement and maintain security controls
• Support security documentation, technical findings, remediation tracking, and reporting aligned with established security requirements
• Maintain awareness of evolving vulnerabilities, threats, security technologies, and cybersecurity engineering practices

Qualifications

Required:

• Ability to obtain and maintain a government security clearance
• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience
• 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity engineering, security architecture, systems security, or related technical cybersecurity disciplines
• Hands-on experience designing, implementing, or securing enterprise systems and technical environments
• Experience with identity and access management (IAM), authentication, authorization, and least-privilege security principles
• Experience identifying, assessing, tracking, and supporting remediation of system vulnerabilities
• Experience implementing or supporting continuous security monitoring and vulnerability management processes
• Knowledge of security architecture, system hardening, secure configuration, and security control implementation
• Experience with security monitoring, vulnerability management, endpoint security, or cloud security technologies
• Understanding of system lifecycle management and the integration of security requirements throughout system design, implementation, and operations
• Experience analyzing technical security findings and identifying appropriate remediation or risk mitigation actions
• Experience documenting security findings, technical requirements, remediation activities, and system security information
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills

Preferred:

• Experience with security platforms and tools such as CrowdStrike, Tanium, Wiz, Splunk, or similar technologies
• Experience with governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) platforms or security compliance management tools
• Experience securing cloud environments and implementing cloud security controls
• Experience supporting security architecture across complex enterprise environments
• Knowledge of federal cybersecurity requirements, security controls, and continuous monitoring practices
• Experience working within federal government or other highly regulated environments
• Relevant cybersecurity certification such as CISSP, Security+, GIAC, or equivalent

About steampunk

Steampunk relies on several factors to determine salary, including but not limited to geographic location, contractual requirements, education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience. The projected compensation range for this position is $85,000 to $170,000. The estimate displayed represents a typical annual salary range for this position. Annual salary is just one aspect of Steampunk's total compensation package for employees. Learn more about additional Steampunk benefits here.

Identity Statement

As part of the application process, you are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health and DoD sectors. Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology, we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges. If you want to learn more about our story, visit http://www.steampunk.com.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.Steampunk participates in the E-Verify program.