Senior Cybersecurity Engineer: DoD Cloud, IR & Compliance

DSD Laboratories; Washington; On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

DSD Laboratories is hiring its first dedicated Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to own security engineering, assurance, and continuity for a Microsoft Government-cloud estate and a growing product suite seeking formal authorization.

You will define controls, manage incidents, and coordinate with DoD-aligned teams to make the security posture demonstrable to customers, assessors, and auditors while building resilient operations.

Qualifications

• Seven or more years in cybersecurity engineering or a closely related discipline, including at least three in a regulated or government-adjacent environment.
• Hands-on administration and security engineering in Microsoft 365 and Azure — Entra ID, conditional access, Defender, and log analytics.
• Demonstrated experience implementing or evidencing a formal control framework such as NIST SP 800-171 or 800-53.
• Direct experience responding to security incidents in a production environment, including time-sensitive judgement calls.
• Active U.S. Government Secret clearance preferred; at minimum, eligible to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the named alternate administrator for the Microsoft 365 and Azure Government tenant, HAL, GitLab, and the corporate wiki.
• Own the control register, System Security Plan, and plan of action and milestones.
• Support the NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 policy programme and the authorization package for the product suite.
• Own daily triage and disposition of alerts from the managed detection service and internal automation.
• Own vulnerability management end to end, and manage the managed detection vendor relationship.
• Serve on the incident command roster as a deputy commander and hold a DoD-approved medium assurance certificate for regulatory incident reporting.

Skills

Cybersecurity engineering

Microsoft 365 & Azure security

Incident response experience

Clearance eligibility

Tools

KQL

Log analytics

SBOM generation

Job description

DSD Laboratories is hiring its first dedicated Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to own security engineering, assurance, and continuity for a Microsoft Government-cloud estate and a growing product suite seeking formal authorization.

You will define controls, manage incidents, and coordinate with DoD-aligned teams to make the security posture demonstrable to customers, assessors, and auditors while building resilient operations.