Senior Security Engineer - Hybrid DC, Zero-Trust & IAM

Orbis Group; Washington, Tacoma (District of Columbia, WA, MD); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Orbis Group is seeking a Senior Security Engineer for a hybrid role in Washington, D.C. The position focuses on building security into software, implementing zero-trust networking, IAM controls, and secure data access across platforms.

You will partner with engineering teams to design secure architectures, review code for security issues, and develop tooling to improve protection and incident response. A background in DevOps and cloud security is essential.

Qualifications

• Hands-on security engineering with strong backend and DevOps experience.
• Experience with IAM, WAFs, secure data access controls.
• Proven track record triaging incidents and delivering durable fixes.

Responsibilities

• Architect applications with security built in from the start.
• Review diagrams, code, and proposals for security issues.
• Triage security incidents and implement durable fixes.
• Stand up WAFs and IAM with operations.
• Participate in on-call rotations for reliability.

Skills

Security engineering

DevOps

IAM

WAFs

CI/CD

IaC

Tools

Datadog

Sentry

Terraform

Job description

Orbis Group is seeking a Senior Security Engineer for a hybrid role in Washington, D.C. The position focuses on building security into software, implementing zero-trust networking, IAM controls, and secure data access across platforms.

You will partner with engineering teams to design secure architectures, review code for security issues, and develop tooling to improve protection and incident response. A background in DevOps and cloud security is essential.