Senior Cybersecurity Engineer — Remote (Zero Trust & ATO)

Veterans EZ Info Inc; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision

401k with Employer Match

PTO + Federal Holidays

Corporate Laptop

Training Opportunities

Remote Opportunity

Job summary

VetsEZ is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to lead security engineering and architecture for a large federal healthcare modernization initiative. This 100% remote role supports delivery across U.S. Census Bureau environments, with travel to the Washington, DC metro area as needed.

You will guide ATO activities, continuous monitoring, Zero Trust, and secure development practices in Agile/DevSecOps settings, coordinating with ISSOs, ISSEs, and cross‑functional teams nationwide.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with at least 10 years in security engineering, incl. leading large teams.
• 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, risk management, and federal security policy.
• Hands‑on experience with application security testing, penetration testing, encryption, 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

Strong communication

Leadership

Mentoring

Customer engagement

Analytical

Remediation planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Information Assurance, Cybersecurity, or related field

Job description

VetsEZ is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to lead security engineering and architecture for a large federal healthcare modernization initiative. This 100% remote role supports delivery across U.S. Census Bureau environments, with travel to the Washington, DC metro area as needed.

You will guide ATO activities, continuous monitoring, Zero Trust, and secure development practices in Agile/DevSecOps settings, coordinating with ISSOs, ISSEs, and cross‑functional teams nationwide.