Senior Cybersecurity Engineer
Gunnison Consulting Group · Washington, DC ·
- Seniority
- Senior
- Category
- Security
- Salary
- USD 135,000 – 145,000 / year
Senior Cybersecurity Engineer supporting enterprise security measures, SOC operations, vulnerability analysis, and secure cloud solutions in Microsoft Azure aligned with federal compliance mandates (NIST, FISMA, FedRAMP).
*This position is contingent upon a future opening with Gunnison.
Salary: $135,000 - $145,000/year
Work Location: On-site 5 days per week, Washington, DC.
- Support the Cyber Security SME in implementing and maintaining enterprise security measures.
- Develop, enhance, and maintain Security Operations Center (SOC) standard operating procedures (SOPs) and assessment operations processes.
- Ensure accountability, integrity, confidentiality, and protection of operational security processes and data.
- Perform vulnerability analysis, review program-level documentation (system requirements, architectures, design documents, test plans, security plans), and provide technical recommendations.
- Develop and document security evaluation plans, test procedures, and assessment methodologies.
- Conduct hands-on security testing, analyzing results, identifying risk, and recommending countermeasures.
- Assess and calculate risk based on identified threats, vulnerabilities, and security control weaknesses.
- Identify and document mitigation strategies for threats, vulnerabilities, and deficiencies.
- Supporting the design, development, and implementation of security-related systems, tools, and assessment capabilities.
- Participate in and/or lead technical exchange meetings, document action items and outcomes, and brief leadership on security engineering status and results.
- Support SOC alert analysis, triage, escalation, containment actions, and continuous improvement of detection and response use cases.
- Lead the engineering and implementation of secure cloud solutions, primarily in Microsoft Azure, in alignment with NTIA’s cybersecurity strategy and federal compliance mandates (NIST, FISMA, FedRAMP).