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Senior Security Tools Engineer

Ashburn Consulting
Springs, MD Full Time
POSTED ON 6/3/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/3/2026

Our client is seeking a Senior Security Tools Engineer to support a federal cybersecurity 
architecture opportunity. This Key Personnel role will administer, integrate, automate, and 
optimize enterprise-grade security tools supporting vulnerability management, endpoint 
security, SIEM, dashboarding, automation, API development, audit support, and CDM
aligned reporting for a proposal opportunity. 


Primary Responsibilities 
• Administer, integrate, and automate enterprise cybersecurity tools. 
• Support security tool operations, upgrades, patching, configuration, dashboards, 
and API integrations. 
• Develop APIs, scripts, Python libraries, and automation workflows to improve tool 
interoperability. 
• Design and manage vulnerability scanning strategies and enterprise security data 
workflows. 
• Build dashboards and alerts for SOC, risk management, and CDM stakeholders. 
• Aggregate security logs, vulnerability data, asset data, and system data into SIEM 
and reporting platforms. 
• Support audit readiness, compliance reporting, and version-controlled audit 
artifacts. 
• Use CI/CD, containers, and cloud-native automation to improve security 
engineering workflows. 


Qualifications 
Required Qualifications 
 
• Candidates must be willing and able to work as Ashburn W-2 employees. 1099 and 
corp-to-corp arrangements are not permitted for these roles. 
• DHS EOD / suitability is required for clearance. 
• 10 years of experience managing and integrating enterprise-grade security tools. 
• Hands-on experience with tools and platforms such as Splunk, Tenable 
Vulnerability Management, CrowdStrike, ForeScout, Zscaler, AWS, Jenkins, Sumo 
Logic, Ansible, Active Directory, VMware, and Cisco UCS. 
• Proven ability to modernize security automation workflows using AWS Lambda, 
AWS Fargate, and HashiCorp Vault. 
• Experience streamlining operations through automation and API creation. 
• Programming and scripting proficiency in Python, PowerShell, Batch, SQL, Bash, 
and other relevant languages. 
• Experience developing APIs and Python libraries for security tool integrations, 
including tools such as Jamf, DNA Center, Vault, and CrowdStrike. 
• Experience using CI/CD pipelines and managing development stacks including 
Docker, GitHub Enterprise, AWS Lambda/Fargate, and Sonatype Nexus. 
• Experience designing scan strategies for vulnerability management tools to improve 
enterprise visibility. 
• Experience creating data models for SIEM querying. 
• Experience automating audit file management with version control. 
• Experience using ETL processes to aggregate security logs and system data for 
Splunk and asset management solutions. 
• Experience developing advanced dashboards, optimizing queries, creating alerts, 
and building APIs to support SOC and risk management teams. 
• Experience designing and implementing dashboards for the DHS Continuous 
Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) Program or comparable federal cyber reporting 
environments. 


Preferred / Strongly Desired Qualifications 
• Experience with Prisma Cloud, Corelight NDR, Cisco Secure Network Analytics, 
Cisco ISE, Zscaler ZTNA/SASE, Checkmarx One, Sonatype Nexus IQ, CrowdStrike 
Falcon, and Tenable.VM. 
• Experience integrating tool data into Splunk or centralized dashboards. 
• Experience with vulnerability management, endpoint detection and response, asset 
management, and compliance automation. 
• Prior DHS, DOD / DOW, or federal CDM program support experience. 
• Strong documentation, dashboarding, and stakeholder communication skills.

Salary : $185,000 - $205,000

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