Senior Cyber Capability Lead & Product Architect

What’s Upstate; Columbia (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employer paid health insurance

401k with 7% employer contribution

Job summary

Assured Information Security (AIS) seeks a Senior Cyber Capability Engineer/Product Lead to drive complex cybersecurity product development and lead engineering teams. You will be the primary interface with mission stakeholders, advocating for technical priorities and ensuring capabilities meet customer objectives.

You’ll guide backlogs, create technical stories, mentor developers, and ensure secure, validated delivery across programs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with 5+ years of professional technical experience, or equivalent.
• Minimum of 2 years of technical leadership experience.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages: Assembly, C, C#, C++, Java, Python.
• Hands-on experience with version control platforms (Git, Subversion).
• Strong networking knowledge including TCP/IP and socket-level development.
• Experience with containers (Docker, Podman) and orchestration environments.
• Experience with virtualization (ESXi, QEMU/KVM, VirtualBox, Hyper‑V) and infrastructure automation (Vagrant, Terraform, Ansible).
• Familiarity with automated testing strategies and CI/CD in secure environments.
• Ability to communicate complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience delivering training materials for diverse users.

Responsibilities

• Lead product direction as a customer advocate, translating operational needs into priorities.
• Shape and maintain the product backlog, write/ refine technical stories, guide teams toward Program Increment objectives.
• Partner with customer and stakeholder groups to align on evolving mission priorities.
• Serve as a security product expert with knowledge of defensive engineering, telemetry, and detection logic.
• Oversee project execution as technical lead, ensuring quality and architectural consistency.
• Represent the team in technical demos, briefings, and capability showcases.
• Mentor junior developers in secure coding, debugging, reverse engineering, and advanced analysis.
• Ensure quality through unit tests, automated validation, and secure development practices.
• Collaborate with mission analysts, researchers, and ops teams to patch and improve deployed software capabilities.

Skills

Programming languages

Technical leadership

Communication

Reverse engineering

Networking fundamentals

CI/CD knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Git

Subversion

Docker

Podman

IDA Pro

Ghidra

Jira

Confluence

Crucible

Terraform

Ansible

ESXi

QEMU/KVM

VirtualBox

Hyper-V

Job description

Assured Information Security (AIS) seeks a Senior Cyber Capability Engineer/Product Lead to drive complex cybersecurity product development and lead engineering teams. You will be the primary interface with mission stakeholders, advocating for technical priorities and ensuring capabilities meet customer objectives.

You’ll guide backlogs, create technical stories, mentor developers, and ensure secure, validated delivery across programs.