Senior Cybersecurity Engineer, Cloud Automation & Security Controls

Darkwolfsolutions; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Dark Wolf in the Washington DC Metro area seeks a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer, Cloud Automation & Security Controls to assess and validate configurations and best practices across complex cloud systems. The role will operate onsite at customer locations and collaborate with the Dark Wolf team to uphold high security standards.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in cybersecurity control assessment, active IAT Level 2 certification, and experience evaluating cloud architectures.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in CS, Cybersecurity, or related field.
• 5+ years of cybersecurity experience focused on control assessment or implementations.
• Active IAT Level 2 certification (Security+ CE, CySA+, CND, CCNA Security).
• Experience evaluating information systems design, containerized apps, and cloud architecture.
• Ability to communicate technical subjects clearly in written and oral form.

Responsibilities

• Develop remediation recommendations to improve client cybersecurity processes and configurations.
• Evaluate information systems design, containerized apps, and cloud architectures for security alignment with standards.
• Validate policies and procedures for efficacy in security controls.
• Develop automated methods to monitor risk and compliance.
• Use cloud security posture tools to monitor AWS for configuration drift.
• Ingest IaC (Terraform/OpenTofu) and docs to identify gaps.
• Draft statements of residual cybersecurity risks for operations.
• Assess and expand security controls with product teams.

Skills

Cybersecurity expertise

Technical evaluation

Written communication

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in CS/Cybersecurity

Tools

Terraform

OpenTofu

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Dark Wolf is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer, Cloud Automation & Security Controls to join a collaborative team to assess and validate cybersecurity configurations and best practices of complex, cloud-based systems. The successful candidate will support both the Dark Wolf team and customer through advanced technical evaluations of cloud cybersecurity architecture best practices, ensuring high engineering standards of security and compliance. This position will be based out of the Washington DC Metro area and is onsite at customer locations. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Develop recommendations to remediate cybersecurity program deficiencies and improve client cybersecurity processes, technologies, and configurations.
• Conduct technical evaluations of information systems design, containerized applications, and cloud architecture, ensuring security and operational requirements align with NIST and CNSS controls.
• Validate the efficacy of information system cybersecurity policies and procedures.
• Develop automated methods to monitor and measure risk and security compliance efforts.
• Utilize automated cloud security posture assessment tools to continuously monitor the AWS environment for configuration drift, ensuring strict adherence to the Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide.
• Leverage AI-assisted tools to ingest infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform) and system documentation to rapidly identify cybersecurity and compliance gaps.
• Draft and brief statements of preliminary or residual cybersecurity risks for system operation.
• Assess the design and effectiveness of existing security controls and work with solution and product development teams to identify, define, and document additional controls based on solution-specific or product-specific requirements.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
• 5+ years of relevant Cybersecurity experience focusing on cybersecurity control assessment or implementation, penetration testing, or quality assurance testing.
• Active IAT Level 2 certification (i.e., Security+ CE, CySA+, CND, CCNA Security)
• Demonstrated experience conducting technical evaluations of information systems design, containerized applications, and cloud architecture.
• Ability to communicate on technical subjects using clear, concise, non-technical language to include strong written communications, ability to provide written feedback on documents, and ability to prepare briefings.

US Citizenship and an active Top Secret security clearance.

Desired Qualifications

• IAT Level 3 or higher certifications (e.g., CISSP, SecurityX, CCNP, CISA).
• Experience with Terraform, OpenTofu, or other declarative IaC tools.
• Understanding of container security (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker) and securing DevSecOps pipelines.
• Demonstrated experience giving technical guidance to cloud engineers and system administrators.

The salary range for this position is estimated to be between $155,000.00 - $180,000.00, commensurate on experience and technical skillset. We will consider candidates at a Principal or Senior Principal (or equivalent level).