Sr. Cybersecurity Engineer

Job Title:Sr. Cybersecurity Engineer

Location: Washington, DC

Duration: 6 Months + Extension

Bill Rate: $70/hour

Job Type: C2C/1099 Contract

Client: To Be Discussed Later

Work Authorization: U.S. Citizen, H-1B, OPT-EAD, GC-EAD

Job Description:

• Provide senior-level ISSO support, cybersecurity oversight, and security advisory services for enterprise systems, applications, platforms, and strategic initiatives.
• Partner with Agile Release Trains (ARTs), product teams, solution architects, developers, infrastructure teams, and business stakeholders to embed security-by-design principles throughout planning, design, development, testing, deployment, and operational support.
• Review proposed system and solution architectures to identify security gaps, design risks, control requirements, and remediation recommendations.
• Ensure cybersecurity requirements are identified and incorporated early in the delivery lifecycle to reduce implementation risk, technical debt, and future remediation costs.
• Lead or support security risk assessments, risk analysis, control evaluations, and documentation of security findings, exceptions, mitigation plans, and residual risk.
• Advise teams on appropriate security controls, secure design practices, governance requirements, and compliance obligations.
• Support adherence to applicable regulatory, enterprise, and industry security standards, policies, and procedures.
• Serve as a key liaison between cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, technology delivery teams, and business stakeholders to enable compliant delivery of business objectives.
• Communicate security risks, recommendations, and decision points clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of cybersecurity governance, secure architecture practices, and enterprise risk-management processes.
• Support strategic cybersecurity risk operations and related reporting, tracking, and executive-level visibility as needed.
• Required Qualifications
• Significant experience in cybersecurity engineering, information security, security architecture, IT risk management, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated experience serving in a senior ISSO, security engineering, security governance, or cybersecurity advisory capacity.
• Strong understanding of secure-by-design, secure SDLC, threat/risk analysis, security controls, vulnerability remediation, and enterprise security governance.
• Experience conducting or supporting security assessments, risk reviews, control assessments, remediation planning, and exception/risk-acceptance processes.
• Ability to evaluate technical architectures and translate security requirements into actionable guidance for delivery teams.
• Experience supporting Agile delivery environments and collaborating with cross-functional product, engineering, architecture, and operations teams.
• Working knowledge of recognized security frameworks and standards, such as NIST, ISO 27001, CIS Controls, and other relevant regulatory or industry requirements.
• Strong stakeholder-management, communication, documentation, and influencing skills.
• Ability to work independently in a remote environment while managing multiple priorities across a large enterprise portfolio.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting large, regulated, critical-infrastructure, transportation, public-sector, or similarly complex enterprise environments.
• Experience with Agile Release Trains (ARTs), SAFe, DevSecOps, cloud security, or enterprise architecture governance.
• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CCSP, Security+, or comparable cybersecurity credentials.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.