Dark Wolf Solutions
Senior Cybersecurity Engineer, Cloud Automation & Security Controls
$155K–$180K
Arlington, VA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 17, 2026
- Location
- Arlington, VA
Herndon, Virginia, United States - Experience
- 5+ years of relevant Cybersecurity experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be a US Citizen.
About the job
Assesses and improves cybersecurity controls, architecture, and compliance for cloud-based systems, including automating risk monitoring and evaluating AWS configurations.
What you'll do
- Evaluate cloud architecture, information systems, and containerized applications against security requirements and controls.
- Develop remediation recommendations and automated methods to monitor risk, compliance, and AWS configuration drift.
- Assess security controls, use AI-assisted tools to identify compliance gaps, and brief cybersecurity risks.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
- 5+ years of relevant Cybersecurity experience in control assessment or implementation, penetration testing, or quality assurance testing.
- Active IAT Level 2 certification (e.g., Security+ CE, CySA+, CND, CCNA Security).
- US Citizenship, an active Top Secret security clearance, and demonstrated experience evaluating information systems, containerized applications, and cloud architecture.
Nice to have
- IAT Level 3 or higher certification (e.g., CISSP, SecurityX, CCNP, CISA).
- Experience with Terraform, OpenTofu, or other declarative IaC tools; container security or DevSecOps pipelines.
Pay
$155,000.00 - $180,000.00 USD base salary
Tools
AWS, Terraform, OpenTofu, Kubernetes, Docker, NIST, CNSS
AI focus
Uses AI-assisted tools to ingest infrastructure-as-code and system documentation to identify cybersecurity and compliance gaps.
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