Dark Wolf Solutions
Senior Cybersecurity Engineer
$155K–$180K
Washington DC Metro Area +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 15, 2026
- Location
- Washington DC Metro Area
Alexandria, Virginia, United States
Arlington, Virginia, United States - Experience
- 10+ years of relevant Cybersecurity experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Requires US Citizenship and an active Top Secret security clearance.
About the job
Develops and maintains cloud-system security through SIEM validation, detection engineering, continuous exposure management, and continuous authorization support.
What you'll do
- Evaluate information-system designs, containerized applications, and cloud architectures for security and operational requirements.
- Validate AWS log ingestion and develop, test, and deploy SIEM detection rules.
- Monitor AWS configuration drift and support exposure management and continuous Authorization to Operate (cATO), including AI-assisted compliance workflows.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
- 10+ years of relevant Cybersecurity experience focused on SIEM validation, tuning, behavioral analytics integrated with AWS, continuous exposure management, and cATO support.
- Hands-on knowledge and experience with AWS and Splunk; experience evaluating system designs, containerized applications, and cloud architecture.
- Active IAT Level 2 certification; US Citizenship and an active Top Secret security clearance.
Nice to have
- IAT Level 3 or higher or advanced relevant technical certifications.
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted RMF tools and Terraform; container security and DevSecOps pipeline experience.
Pay
USD $155,000.00 - $180,000.00 base salary
Tools
AWS, Splunk, AWS CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, GuardDuty, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker
AI focus
Uses AI-assisted RMF tools to ingest infrastructure-as-code and system documentation, identify compliance gaps, and accelerate cATO.
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