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Senior Security Engineer

Edgewater Federal Solutions
Washington, DC Remote Full Time
POSTED ON 7/24/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/24/2027

Overview

Edgewater is currently seeking a Security Engineer to support our federal customer in the Washington DC area. This is a hybrid position with a requirement to work onsite one or two days a month, subject to change. You will be utilizing your knowledge of Federal sector security processes, hardening of systems, Active Directory and LDAP management, configuration and design across multiple SSO domains. You will be essential to the team in developing CI/CD within a Azure environment for deploying code.  

 

This is a remote position but requires the candidate to work at the federal site in Washington DC at least one day a month so candidates local to the Washington, DC area strongly preferred.

 

Due to the contract and nature of the work, US Citizenship is required to obtain a Department of Energy security clearance. 

 

Responsibilities

 

 

    • Strong understanding of Security processes in the Government sector
    • Strong understandings of AAA – Authentication, Authorization and Accounting principles
    • Strong understanding of Microsoft Ecosystem such as Azure, Intune, PowerBI, Defender security stack (such as Defender for Endpoint and Defender for Cloud).
    • Knowledge in Splunk, Tenable, Firepower, WebInspect, ForcePoint, and Identity and Privileged Access Management (IAM/PAM) applications such as Safegaurd.
    • Knowledge in Sentinel and Logic Apps are a plus.
    • Work with Software Engineering team to ensure all systems are properly hardened during the implementation process.
    • Strong knowledge of Active Directory and/or LDAP management, configuration or design, PKI, SSO across multiple domains, MFA.
    • Familiarity with Agile methodologies such as Kanban.
    • Knowledge of Azure DevOps for management of daily work is a plus.
    • Understanding of CI/CD integration is a plus.
    • Provide oversite in Security Product Reviews and Static Code Reviews
    • Provide subject matter expertise on cyber security asks.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in cyber security, information technology or related field or equivalent experience working in field;
  • 7 years of experience supporting IT with 3 years in cybersecurity;
  • Experience in Linux environment is a bonus;
  • Security certification must have Security or higher (CISSP)
  • Microsoft Certifications highly desirable.
  • Understanding of networking preferred.

 

Salary:  $140,000 - $160,000

 

About Us:

Edgewater Federal Solutions is a privately held government contracting firm located in Frederick, MD.  The company was founded in 2002 with the vision of being highly recognized and admired for supporting customer missions through employee empowerment, exceptional services and timely delivery. Edgewater Federal Solutions is ISO 9001, 20000-1, 270001 certified, appraised at CMMI Level 3 Maturity for Development and Services, and has been named in the Top Workplaces in the Greater Washington Area Small Companies for 2018 through 2025.

 

It has been and continues to be the policy of Edgewater Federal Solutions to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, and/or other statuses protected by applicable law.status protected by applicable law. 

 

Salary : $140,000 - $160,000

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