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Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

Tharros Defense, Inc
Washington, DC Full Time
POSTED ON 8/2/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 10/1/2026
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.
 
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. 

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