# Senior Cybersecurity Engineer, Cloud Automation & Security Controls

Dark Wolf is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer, Cloud Automation & Security Controls to join a collaborative team to assess and validate cybersecurity configurations and best practices of complex, cloud-based systems. 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: Develop recommendations to remediate cybersecurity program deficiencies and improve client cybersecurity processes, technologies, and configurations. Conduct technical evaluations of information systems design, containerized applications, and cloud architecture, ensuring security and operational requirements align with NIST and CNSS controls. Validate the efficacy of information system cybersecurity policies and procedures. Develop automated methods to monitor and measure risk and security compliance efforts. Utilize automated cloud security posture assessment tools to continuously monitor

- **Id**: 1011501
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/dark-wolf-senior-cybersecurity-engineer-cloud-automation-security-controls>
- **Role**: Security
- **Role family**: Security
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Herndon, United States, Arlington, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-17T17:22:13Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-17
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T22:34:14Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 53
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3153
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cybersecurity, Information Security, Managed Security, Custom Software Development

## Company

- **Id**: 716229
- **Name**: Dark Wolf Solutions
- **Domain**: darkwolf.io
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/darkwolf>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 90
- **Open postings**: 5
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.2
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 73
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 155000
- **Max**: 180000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 180000

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **OpenTofu** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 53

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-17T20:22:06Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 66
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.885
- **P room**: 0.75
- **Age days**: 52
- **Expected fill days**: 73
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:late
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 180000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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