Remote Senior Cybersecurity Engineer- Zero Trust & ATO Lead

VetsEZ; Washington; Remote; USD 155,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote opportunity

Corporate laptop

Job summary

VetsEZ seeks a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer for a 100% remote role supporting a large federal healthcare modernization project. You will lead security engineering, architecture, ATO, continuous monitoring, and Zero Trust across Census Bureau environments.

The role requires travel to the Washington, DC area as needed and residence in the continental US. You will guide ISSO/ISSE teams within Agile/DevSecOps, cloud, testing, and production, while communicating security requirements to government

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with at least 10 years of relevant experience, including five years leading large security-engineering, ISSO, or ISSE teams; additional relevant experience may substitute for a degree.
• Current CISSP certification.
• At least five years of security-engineering experience supporting Agile, Scrum or SAFe, DevSecOps, and cloud-based projects.
• Extensive knowledge of ATOs, System Security Plans, Zero Trust, continuous monitoring, security-control assessment, risk management, and federal security policy.
• Hands-on experience with application security testing, penetration testing, encryption, communication protocols, access control, PKI, incident response, and defense-in-depth architectures.
• Strong communication, leadership, mentoring, customer-engagement, collaboration, analytical, and remediation-planning skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead security architecture, engineering standards, procedures, technologies, security requirements, and verification practices across complex enterprise environments.
• Provide technical leadership and oversight to ISSO and ISSE teams supporting security engineering, compliance, continuous monitoring, and remediation activities.
• Lead risk assessments, security-control assessments, security strategy, service design, vulnerability management, and broader cybersecurity program activities.
• Oversee ATO and System Security Plan activities while ensuring compliance with Zero Trust, continuous-monitoring, and federal security requirements.
• Design and guide static and dynamic application security testing, penetration testing, vulnerability analysis, and remediation in collaboration with development teams.
• Communicate security requirements, risks, vulnerabilities, compliance challenges, and actionable remediation recommendations to Government and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Take on additional tasks and responsibilities as needed to support team objectives and ensure the success of the project.

Skills

Security architecture

Security engineering

Leadership

Mentoring

Customer engagement

Communication

Remediation planning

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology

CISSP certification

Job description

VetsEZ seeks a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer for a 100% remote role supporting a large federal healthcare modernization project. You will lead security engineering, architecture, ATO, continuous monitoring, and Zero Trust across Census Bureau environments.

The role requires travel to the Washington, DC area as needed and residence in the continental US. You will guide ISSO/ISSE teams within Agile/DevSecOps, cloud, testing, and production, while communicating security requirements to government