
Security Specialist
Annapolis Junction, MDFull-time$64–128K/yrSeen 4 days agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago
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Job overview
Nightwing seeks a motivated, detail-oriented Security Specialist to support staff in Annapolis Junction, Maryland. The role provides administrative and operational support for program security while developing experience with government security requirements, policies, and procedures. The specialist works with experienced security professionals and supports personnel security, access control, and program and physical security activities.
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Onsite Nightwing
Annapolis Junction, MD
Full time
JR102215
Nightwing provides technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence mission support services to meet our customers’ most demanding challenges. Our capabilities include cyber space operations, cyber defense and resiliency, vulnerability research, ubiquitous technical surveillance, data intelligence, lifecycle mission enablement, and software modernization. Nightwing brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial markets.
Nightwing Security is seeking a motivated, detail-oriented Security Specialist to support our staff in Annapolis Junction, MD. This role is ideal for an individual who is interested in developing a career in program security and learning the responsibilities associated with supporting Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) programs.
The Security Specialist will work closely with experienced security professionals and will provide administrative and operational support while gaining experience with government security requirements, policies, and procedures.
CLEARANCE REQUIREMENT: Top-Secret with FS Polygraph
What You'll Do
As a Security Specialist, you'll be at the heart of our security operations, with responsibilities that directly impact mission success:
Personnel Security
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Process personnel actions, including clearance requests, visit certifications, reinvestigations, and terminations
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Maintain accurate personnel records and security documentation
-Work directly with candidates to facilitate clearance package submittals; review and submit to customer
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Maintain clearance databases and tracking required actions
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Assist with documenting and tracking security-related actions and requirements
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Support onboarding, out-processing, security briefings, and administrative activities
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Manage badge issuance, renewals, and clearance certifications
Access Control
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Support daily badging and access control activities
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Receive, process, and send visit requests and certifications
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Coordinate building access requests and maintain access records
Program/Physical Security
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Assist with maintaining SCIF documentation
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Assist the security team with inspections, audits, self-assessments, and special projects
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Support Guard force oversight
Additional Responsibilities
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Partner with government, program, and security personnel to ensure compliance with applicable requirements
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Support the implementation of NISPOM, Intelligence Community Directive (ICD), and customer-specific requirements
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Perform additional administrative duties as assigned
Salary & Benefits
The salary associated with this position ($64,000-$128,000) is commensurate with the selected candidate’s qualifications, years of relevant experience, and demonstrated level of expertise. Compensation will be determined based on these factors to ensure alignment with skills, responsibilities, and market standards.
Nightwing offers medical, vision and dental insurance coverage in addition to a 401k plan, PTO, Holidays, and additional insurances.
Nightwing is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.
Previously part of a leading Fortune 100 company and headquartered in Dulles, VA; Nightwing became independent in 2024 but continues to support the nation’s most mission impactful initiatives.
When we formed Nightwing, we brought a deep set of credentials and an unfaltering commitment to the mission. For over four decades, our team has been providing some of the world’s most technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence support services to the U.S. government on its most important missions.
At Nightwing, we value collaboration and teamwork. You’ll have the opportunity to work alongside talented individuals who are passionate about what they do. Together, we’ll leverage our collective expertise to drive innovation, solve complex problems, and deliver exceptional results for our clients.
Thank you for considering joining us as we embark on this new journey and shape the future of cybersecurity and intelligence together as part of the Nightwing team.
How this job compares
Set against the 580 open Security Specialist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$64–128K/yr
- US median$81–116K/yr356 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $96K, is close to the US median midpoint ($98K) — in the middle half of Security Specialist salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 12 open Security Specialist jobs in Maryland and 580 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- Security Specialist postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 6 years (406 postings).
- Education
- 105 of the 580 open Security Specialist jobs (18%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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