What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Cybersecurity Engineer position at Tharros Defense, Inc?
Tharros is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to support a DHS Intelligence and Analysis cybersecurity program in the National Capital Region.
This role will provide senior technical direction across cybersecurity engineering, cloud security, DevSecOps, AI/ML security, Zero Trust, security tooling, and technical architecture. The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical leader who can translate complex cybersecurity requirements into scalable, secure, and executable engineering solutions across cloud, on-premise, classified, and unclassified environments.
This role will provide senior technical direction across cybersecurity engineering, cloud security, DevSecOps, AI/ML security, Zero Trust, security tooling, and technical architecture. The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical leader who can translate complex cybersecurity requirements into scalable, secure, and executable engineering solutions across cloud, on-premise, classified, and unclassified environments.
Responsibilities:
- Provide senior technical direction across cybersecurity engineering, cloud security, DevSecOps, AI/ML security, and Zero Trust activities.
- Work with enterprise architects, system architects, developers, and security teams to integrate cybersecurity requirements into reusable technical architectures and engineering practices.
- Assess and recommend scalable, resilient cloud architectures that incorporate cybersecurity and safeguarding requirements.
- Support cybersecurity tool configuration, maintenance, integration, and improvement across enterprise environments.
- Support STIG implementation, vulnerability scanning, secure configuration, and security tool maintenance.
- Identify opportunities to apply automation, emerging technologies, and process improvements to improve cybersecurity engineering delivery.
- Develop repeatable security processes for cloud and AI capabilities.
- Support technical remediation and assessment activities, including engineering support for Assessment and Authorization efforts.
- Recommend, configure, operate, and maintain approved cybersecurity tools and applications.
- Support Zero Trust maturity efforts, including capability gap analysis, implementation recommendations, roadmap development, and dashboard integration.
- Integrate security into DevSecOps pipelines, including automation scripts, security testing, configuration validation, and continuous monitoring support.
- Assess DevSecOps tool configurations, identify gaps, and recommend improvements.
- Develop and apply tools and scripts to automate security requirements, STIG implementation, and configuration validation.
- Support near real-time dashboards and reporting that improve visibility into security testing, vulnerabilities, compliance status, and cyber risk.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams throughout requirements, design, implementation, testing, delivery, and enhancement of secure IT solutions.
- Support migration of IT services to cloud environments by identifying security requirements, risks, and technical issues.
- Apply secure coding, security testing, static analysis, fuzzing, and threat modeling practices.