Two Six Technologies
Cybersecurity Engineer, Senior Manager
$175K–$200K
Arlington, Virginia +1 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Location
- Arlington, Virginia
Arlington, Virginia, United States - Experience
- 7+ years of relevant professional experience in one or more related areas, such as incident response, vulnerability research, network engineering, or software development; comparable experience and education will be considered.
About the job
Provides hands-on technical leadership researching, evaluating, and testing cybersecurity hardware and software for defensive cyber operations, while managing one direct report and collaborating with customers.
What you'll do
- Research, evaluate, and validate cybersecurity solutions and test engineering prototypes.
- Assess mission needs and communicate technical findings, risks, and recommendations to customers and teams.
- Manage and mentor one direct report while contributing hands-on technical analysis and testing.
What they ask for
- Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility or access (TS/SCI).
- Experience supervising or leading technical staff, including setting priorities and mentoring.
- Experience supporting military or government defensive cyber missions.
- Experience researching, evaluating, or validating cybersecurity solutions and planning technical testing.
Nice to have
- Experience with cyber operations platforms, defensive tools, network technologies, or security monitoring systems such as Zeek, Snort/Suricata, Splunk, etc.
- Experience evaluating specialized network sensors, FPGA-based firewalls, or software written in Rust or Python.
Pay
$175,000 — $200,000 USD (annualized base salary)
Tools
Zeek, Snort/Suricata, Splunk, FPGA, Rust, Python
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