Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

Tharros; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Education reimbursement up to $5,250/​

Referral bonuses

Training & Certification reimbursement

Comprehensive benefits and paid leave

Job summary

Tharros is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to support a DHS cybersecurity program in the National Capital Region. You will lead cybersecurity engineering initiatives across cloud and on-premises environments, translate requirements into scalable architectures, and drive DevSecOps practices with automation and secure tooling.

The ideal candidate has hands-on leadership, strong communication, and extensive experience in cloud security, Zero Trust, and vulnerability management to safeguard

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret clearance with contingency on DOD CAS granting SCI eligibility.
• 10+ years of cybersecurity engineering experience on projects of similar size and complexity.
• Experience with Federal, DHS, or Intelligence Community cybersecurity architectures, standards, and technologies.
• Experience translating cybersecurity requirements into technical plans and engineering solutions.
• Strong technical communication skills, including the ability to brief technical concepts and recommendations to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior technical direction across cybersecurity engineering, cloud security, DevSecOps, AI/ML security, and Zero Trust activities.
• Work with enterprise architects, system architects, developers, and security teams to integrate cybersecurity requirements into reusable technical architectures and engineering practices.
• Assess and recommend scalable, resilient cloud architectures that incorporate cybersecurity and safeguarding requirements.
• Support cybersecurity tool configuration, maintenance, integration, and improvement across enterprise environments.
• Identify opportunities to apply automation and process improvements to improve cybersecurity engineering delivery.
• Develop repeatable security processes for cloud and AI capabilities.
• Support technical remediation and assessment activities, including engineering support for Assessment and Authorization efforts.
• Integrate security into DevSecOps pipelines, including automation scripts, security testing, configuration validation, and continuous monitoring support.

Skills

Top Secret clearance

10+ years cybersecurity engineering

Strong technical communication

DevSecOps

Zero Trust

Cloud security

Threat modeling

Automation

Security architectures

Vulnerability management

Education

AWS certification

CISSP certification

Scrum certification

Tools

Nessus

SCAP

SonarQube

GitLab

Splunk

Tanium

Tenable

Job description

Tharros is looking for courageous team members that enable government missions to move forward with confidence.

Who We Are

At Tharros, expertise, confidence and continuous advancement are at the foundation of what we do. With us, you work with the world's preeminent vulnerability experts to not only advance government missions, but also your own career path. We're looking for confident leaders to grow and evolve as we do, protecting our nation's protectors with cutting-edge cybersecurity tools.

Seeing everything includes seeing everyone. Tharros moves missions forward with a courageous team of experts and a variety of perspectives.

Outperform

Lead with Growth

Dare to Secure

At Tharros, we have exceptional benefits because our employees' success is our success. We support our team members' growth with training opportunities, tools and resources.

Outperform the Expected

Tharros sets high standards because we know our team can meet and exceed them. We anticipate success, expect exceptional results and ensure impact for everyone.

Lead with Continuous Growth

When our employees grow, everyone thrives. As the leaders in vulnerability research, we grow capability for our clients and our employees.

Dare to Secure Anything

At the cutting-edge of cybersecurity technology, Tharros dares to create tools that will have maximum mission impact. Our company culture reflects this confidence.

Benefits of Working with Tharros

Moving boldly forward requires a strong foundation. Tharros provides foundational benefits that help our employees grow and thrive.

To be the best, you join the best. Tharros offers competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision and disability coverage, savings & retirement and paid leave.

At Tharros, leaders develop leaders. Working at Tharros gives our employees access to resources and expertise found nowhere else, and we nurture the future leaders in cybersecurity from within our ranks.

We're not afraid to show our commitment to growing our Tharros team. We offer generous referral bonuses to employees who help us reach hiring goals.

Training & Certification Reimbursement

Tharros is always advancing. We offer an education reimbursement benefit of up to $5,250 per year to help our employees thrive.

Breaking Barriers to Cybersecurity Success

Our people-first culture enables more flexibility for our employees to find success in cyber fields. At Tharros, there are no barriers between you, the world's leading cybersecurity experts, and our customers.

Tharros is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to support a DHS cybersecurity program in the National Capital Region. This role will provide senior technical direction across cybersecurity engineering, cloud security, DevSecOps, AI/ML security, Zero Trust, security tooling, and technical architecture. The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical leader who can translate complex cybersecurity requirements into scalable, secure, and executable engineering solutions across cloud, on-premise, classified, and unclassified environments.

Responsibilities:

• Provide senior technical direction across cybersecurity engineering, cloud security, DevSecOps, AI/ML security, and Zero Trust activities.
• Work with enterprise architects, system architects, developers, and security teams to integrate cybersecurity requirements into reusable technical architectures and engineering practices.
• Assess and recommend scalable, resilient cloud architectures that incorporate cybersecurity and safeguarding requirements.
• Support cybersecurity tool configuration, maintenance, integration, and improvement across enterprise environments.
• Support STIG implementation, vulnerability scanning, secure configuration, and security tool maintenance.
• Identify opportunities to apply automation, emerging technologies, and process improvements to improve cybersecurity engineering delivery.
• Develop repeatable security processes for cloud and AI capabilities.
• Support technical remediation and assessment activities, including engineering support for Assessment and Authorization efforts.
• Recommend, configure, operate, and maintain approved cybersecurity tools and applications.
• Support Zero Trust maturity efforts, including capability gap analysis, implementation recommendations, roadmap development, and dashboard integration.
• Integrate security into DevSecOps pipelines, including automation scripts, security testing, configuration validation, and continuous monitoring support.
• Assess DevSecOps tool configurations, identify gaps, and recommend improvements.
• Develop and apply tools and scripts to automate security requirements, STIG implementation, and configuration validation.
• Support near real-time dashboards and reporting that improve visibility into security testing, vulnerabilities, compliance status, and cyber risk.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams throughout requirements, design, implementation, testing, delivery, and enhancement of secure IT solutions.
• Support migration of IT services to cloud environments by identifying security requirements, risks, and technical issues.
• Apply secure coding, security testing, static analysis, fuzzing, and threat modeling practices.

Requirements:

• Active Top Secret clearance with contingency on DOD CAS granting SCI eligibility.
• 10+ years of cybersecurity engineering experience on projects of similar size and complexity.
• AWS certification.
• CISSP certification.
• Scrum certification or demonstrated Scrum practices experience.
• Experience with Federal, DHS, or Intelligence Community cybersecurity architectures, standards, and technologies.
• Experience with cybersecurity engineering, cloud engineering, DevSecOps, AI/ML security, and Zero Trust.
• Experience translating cybersecurity requirements into technical plans and engineering solutions.
• Experience with security tools, secure configuration, vulnerability scanning, STIGs, cloud security, and DevSecOps automation.
• Strong technical communication skills, including the ability to brief technical concepts and recommendations to stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior DHS, Intelligence Community, CISO office, classified cloud, TS/SCI engineering, or national security cybersecurity experience.
• Certifications or experience with additional cloud platforms, including Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or Microsoft 365.
• Experience with GRC platforms, ACAS, Nessus, SCAP, SonarQube, GitLab, Splunk, Tanium, Tenable, or related Federal cybersecurity tools.
• Experience with RMF, A&A, continuous monitoring, Zero Trust dashboards, DevSecOps pipeline security, cloud security architecture, and secure automation.
• Experience supporting classified, hybrid cloud, cross-domain, or secure mission environments.
• Experience developing dashboards, technical metrics, or executive-ready reporting for cyber risk, vulnerability posture, Zero Trust maturity, or security testing status.

Equal Opportunity Employment

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