Cyber Security Engineer

LightFeather is seeking a skilled Cyber Security Engineer to join our team in Washington, DC. This role focuses on implementing security controls and best practices to improve the security posture of enterprise applications. Spanning a portfolio of custom applications, cloud platforms, and COTS tools, you will serve as a security resource embedded with development and engineering teams throughout modernization efforts and compliance assessments.

• Location: In-Person (5 days/week) in Washington, DC
• Job Type: Full Time
• Citizenship: U.S. Citizenship Required
• Clearance Requirement: Active Secret/Top Secret Security Clearance Required

Responsibilities:

Cyber Security Design and Implementation:

• Collaborate with application development, platform engineering, and customer engagement teams to review security implications for change requests and proposed enhancements.
• Configure security controls and best practices in accordance with applicable federal standards (e.g., NIST SP 800-53 rev. 5) and system/application-specific best practices (e.g., ServiceNow platforms, .NET applications, GitLab deployments, etc.)
• Contribute proactively to a close-knit, mission-driven security team to identify and mitigate risks to the customer’s broader system portfolio and critical assets.

Security Operations and Automation:

• Identify, design, and implement solutions to improve security across the application portfolio with DevSecOps best practices, including SAST/DAST/IAST, IaC, robust vulnerability scanning, near-real-time threat detection, etc.
• Automate repeated tasks and core security functions to strengthen baseline posture and improve operational efficiency, using available low-code/no-code and RPA toolsets.
• Improve data collection, threat analysis, and continuous monitoring mechanisms to provide standardized insights into critical security indicators to security peers and government leadership through dashboards, reports, alerts, etc.

Compliance and Risk Management:

• Collaborate with compliance officers, government leadership, and development teams to ensure compliance with federal security standards such as NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, and FISMA.
• Support ongoing compliance activities to achieve and maintain ATOs for assigned systems, including implementation support to move systems to the Department’s Ongoing Authorizations (OA) program.
• Implement data-driven and automated mechanisms to identify security risks or compliance issues for proactive remediation.

Required Qualifications and Skills:

• US Citizenship.
• Active Top Secret clearance is strongly preferred; candidates with an active Secret clearance will be considered.
• Bachelor’s degree in C