Senior IT Security & Compliance Engineer

Embedded Shishya

United States

Remote

USD 149,000 - 201,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Flexible time off

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Job summary

Defense Unicorns seeks a Senior Technical Implementation Engineer to lead hands-on work across diverse customer environments within Commercial Cyber Operations. You will design, implement, and validate systems supporting NIST SP 800-171 compliance assessments.

You will collaborate with customer IT teams, service providers, and vendors to resolve complex issues, document configurations, and turn repeatable tasks into standards and automation, while traveling 10-25% as needed.

Qualifications

Senior-level IT design, administration, security, and troubleshooting experience.
Hands-on experience with Microsoft and Google environments (Microsoft 365, Entra ID, AD, Google Workspace).
Broad MDM/UEM across multiple platforms; strong Jamf and Intune experience.
Experience managing Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android devices.
Experience with networking, firewalls, VPNs, identity, logging, vulnerability management, patching, and backups.
Ability to lead customer implementations and explain decisions clearly.
Ability to produce accurate technical documentation and work in remote environments.
US citizenship with CUI access.

Responsibilities

Assess unfamiliar customer environments and lead technical implementation plans with the Compliance Lead.
Configure and secure Microsoft 365, GCC High, Azure, Entra ID, Active Directory, Google Workspace, Google Cloud Identity, and hybrid environments.
Design, migrate, and operate endpoint-management programs across multiple MDM/UEM platforms, including Jamf and Microsoft Intune.
Implement identity, multifactor authentication, least privilege, endpoint security, logging, vulnerability management, patching, backup, and recovery controls.
Configure and troubleshoot Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, networks, firewalls, VPNs, segmentation, DNS, and secure remote access.
Work directly with customer IT teams, service providers, and vendors to resolve complex technical issues.
Validate completed work and produce clear configuration records, diagrams, evidence, and runbooks.
Guide other implementation engineers and turn repeatable work into standards, scripts, and automation.