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As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.\nResponsibilities\nPeraton is seeking a Security Engineering Lead to provide technical leadership for the design, implementation, and evolution of enterprise security capabilities across complex federal environments. This role leads security architecture and engineering initiatives that protect cloud infrastructure, applications, networks, identities, and sensitive data while supporting mission requirements and regulatory compliance.\nThe ideal candidate brings demonstrated experience engineering security solutions for FedRAMP High environments and implementing Zero Trust architectures at federal enterprise scale. The role requires the ability to translate security requirements into scalable technical controls, integrate security capabilities across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, and collaborate with architecture, infrastructure, cloud engineering, DevSecOps, compliance, and operations teams.\nExperience applying artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, or automation to cybersecurity use cases is a plus.\nWork Location: This is a remote position, but candidate must be willing to work during the hours of 8am - 5pm EST\nWhat You Will Do:\nApply federal security requirements, including NIST SP 800-53, FedRAMP baselines, and applicable agency-specific policies and standards.\nPartner with cloud platform, infrastructure, and compliance teams to implement security controls for identity, encryption, logging, vulnerability management, configuration management, and incident response.\nLead security engineering activities supporting Authority to Operate (ATO) authorization and maintenance, including security control implementation, authorization package development, risk remediation, and continuous monitoring.\nSupport continuous monitoring, security assessment activities, vulnerability remediation, and evidence collection to maintain an effective security posture.\nIdentify security gaps, evaluate technical risks, and develop remediation strategies that support authorization requirements and ongoing compliance.\nLead the engineering and implementation of Zero Trust capabilities across large-scale federal enterprise environments.\nApply Zero Trust principles across identity, devices, networks, applications, workloads, and data.\nAssess emerging AI-enabled security capabilities for effectiveness, scalability, data protection, and operational risk.\nSupport secure adoption of AI-enabled technologies by incorporating appropriate access controls, monitoring, data governance, and risk management practices.\nQualifications\nBasic Qualifications:\nMust be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust level clearance\nBachelors Degree and 12 years of experience, a Masters Degree and 10 years of experience, an Associates Degree and 14 years, or a High School Diploma or equivalent and 16 years of experience\nOne or more of the following relevant certifications: CISSP, CISM, CASP, CCISO, Security+, or CAP\nProven experience supporting ATO efforts within FedRAMP High or other federal environments\nDemonstrated experience designing, implementing, or engineering security controls in FedRAMP High or comparably stringent federal cloud environments.\nStrong understanding of NIST SP 800-53, federal security requirements, cloud security controls, and continuous monitoring practices.\nDemonstrated experience implementing or engineering Zero Trust capabilities across large, complex enterprise or federal environments.\nExperience with cloud security architecture, identity and access management, network security, encryption, logging, vulnerability management, and security monitoring.\nAbility to translate security frameworks and architectural requirements into practical technical implementations.\nExperience with AWS GovCloud, Microsoft Azure Government, or other government cloud environments.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nDirect experience supporting FedRAMP High authorization, continuous monitoring, or security control assessment activities for federal cloud services.\nExperience implementing federal Zero Trust architectures aligned with applicable federal guidance and agency roadmaps.\nTarget Salary Range\n$112,000 - $179,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.Benefits Statement\nPeraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.\nApplication Statements\nThe application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. 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