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The successful candidate will support both the Dark Wolf team and customer through advanced technical evaluations of cloud cybersecurity architecture best practices, ensuring high engineering standards of security and compliance. This position will be based out of the Washington DC Metro area and is onsite at customer locations. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:\nDevelop recommendations to remediate cybersecurity program deficiencies and improve client cybersecurity processes, technologies, and configurations.\nConduct technical evaluations of information systems design, containerized applications, and cloud architecture, ensuring security and operational requirements align with NIST and CNSS controls.\nValidate the efficacy of information system cybersecurity policies and procedures.\nDevelop automated methods to monitor and measure risk and security compliance efforts.\nUtilize automated cloud security posture assessment tools to continuously monitor the AWS environment for configuration drift, ensuring strict adherence to the Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide.\nLeverage AI-assisted tools to ingest infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform) and system documentation to rapidly identify cybersecurity and compliance gaps.\nDraft and brief statements of preliminary or residual cybersecurity risks for system operation.\nAssess the design and effectiveness of existing security controls and work with solution and product development teams to identify, define, and document additional controls based on solution-specific or product-specific requirements.\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field.\n5+ years of relevant Cybersecurity experience focusing on cybersecurity control assessment or implementation, penetration testing, or quality assurance testing.\nActive IAT Level 2 certification (i.e., Security+ CE, CySA+, CND, CCNA Security)\nDemonstrated experience conducting technical evaluations of information systems design, containerized applications, and cloud architecture.\nAbility to communicate on technical subjects using clear, concise, non-technical language to include strong written communications, ability to provide written feedback on documents, and ability to prepare briefings.\nUS Citizenship and an active Top Secret security clearance.\nDesired Qualifications\nIAT Level 3 or higher certifications (e.g., CISSP, SecurityX, CCNP, CISA).\nExperience with Terraform, OpenTofu, or other declarative IaC tools.\nUnderstanding of container security (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker) and securing DevSecOps pipelines.\nDemonstrated experience giving technical guidance to cloud engineers and system administrators.\nThe salary range for this position is estimated to be between $155,000.00 - $180,000.00, commensurate on experience and technical skillset. 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