Senior DoD Security Engineer — RMF, Cloud & Automation

Linuxconfig; United States; On-site; USD 116,900 - 243,100; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services seeks a highly skilled Security Engineer to join DoD programs. The role involves architecting, engineering, and deploying advanced cybersecurity solutions while ensuring RMF/JSIG compliance across cloud and on-prem environments.

The ideal candidate has hands-on security engineering experience with SIEM, vulnerability management, incident response, and automation using Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell, Bash, or Python, plus DoD cloud security expertise.

Qualifications

• DoD IASAE Level II certification required or within 3 months of hire.
• 5+ years of experience in a security engineering or similar role (e.g.: DevOps or security background).
• Hands-on experience with SIEM (administration, data normalization, data pipelines, alerting, and/or correlation).
• Expertise in Windows and/or Linux (RHEL preferred) system administration.
• Expertise in cybersecurity engineering disciplines (patch/configuration management, vulnerability assessment, monitoring, access control, incident response).
• Experience with automation tools (Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell, Bash, Python).
• Familiarity with RMF/JSIG accreditation processes and TCP/IP networking.

Responsibilities

• Support, administer, and maintain cybersecurity tools and platforms (Splunk, Nessus, ePO).
• Integrate ancillary monitoring and assessment tools into SIEM.
• Enable security-as-code via automation (Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell, Bash, Python).
• Contribute to incident detection and response, including improving telemetry and alerts.
• Develop and deploy solutions for vulnerability management, auditing, and patching across enterprise/cloud environments.
• Engineer security requirements for DoD cloud environments (AWS, Azure) per RMF/JSIG.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation (SOPs, runbooks, designs).
• Mentor teams on secure design principles and architectures.

Skills

SIEM administration

Vulnerability assessment

Incident response

Automation scripting

Security engineering

Education

DoD IASAE Level II certification (CASP+/CISSP)

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Splunk Enterprise

Nessus/ACAS

ePO Trellix

Ansible

Terraform

PowerShell

Python

Job description

Accenture Federal Services seeks a highly skilled Security Engineer to join DoD programs. The role involves architecting, engineering, and deploying advanced cybersecurity solutions while ensuring RMF/JSIG compliance across cloud and on-prem environments.

The ideal candidate has hands-on security engineering experience with SIEM, vulnerability management, incident response, and automation using Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell, Bash, or Python, plus DoD cloud security expertise.