Senior Cybersecurity Engineer: Zero Trust Leader

Sierra Nevada Corporation; Englewood (CO); Hybrid; USD 151,000 - 207,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision plans

401(k) with 150% match up to 6%

Life insurance

3 weeks paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Sierra Nevada Corp is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer in Englewood, CO to lead design, testing, and implementation of secure systems and monitoring tools. You will drive incident responses, risk assessments, and the development of comprehensive security controls while mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with senior leadership.

The role emphasizes architectural alignment, enterprise security integrations, and continuous improvement of security platforms and standards across IT

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field with 8+ years of security engineering experience.
• Deep understanding of cybersecurity principles and network architectures.
• Experience leading security monitoring and assessment tools.
• Experience supporting, troubleshooting, and administering networks, OSs, and applications.
• Strong knowledge of data security administration and Microsoft platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve security operations platforms including enterprise logging and detection.
• Collaborate with security analysts to optimize platform performance.
• Ensure enterprise security meets architectural requirements and risk coverage.
• Support Zero Trust posture with device, network, data, and workload controls.
• Develop security control standards and roadmaps with junior engineers.
• Perform risk assessments and document compensating controls.
• Provide evidence and design docs for audits and assessments.
• Mentor junior engineers and collaborate with senior leadership.

Skills

Security monitoring

Incident response

Risk assessment

Zero Trust

Security controls

Architectural alignment

Mentoring

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity / related field

Higher degree may substitute for experience

Tools

Security monitoring tools

Windows platforms administration

PKI / certificate services

Job description

Sierra Nevada Corp is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer in Englewood, CO to lead design, testing, and implementation of secure systems and monitoring tools. You will drive incident responses, risk assessments, and the development of comprehensive security controls while mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with senior leadership.

The role emphasizes architectural alignment, enterprise security integrations, and continuous improvement of security platforms and standards across IT