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Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

Tau Six

Chantilly, VAJobSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago

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Location
Chantilly, VA
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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Top Secret clearanceBachelor's degree

Job overview

Tau Six seeks a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to help defend national security systems by integrating and overseeing security technologies within customer enterprise networks. The role focuses on incorporating cybersecurity requirements into information systems through security architecture, design, development, and configuration. The engineer will work on complex security integrations, threat mitigation, security documentation, and technical solutions that address vulnerabilities and automate repeatable tasks.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Cybersecurity KnowledgeSecurity EngineeringIT Systems EngineeringSecurity System BuildingNetwork SecurityOperating System SecurityFirewallsIntrusion Detection SystemsAntivirus SoftwareAuthentication SystemsLog ManagementContent FilteringNetworking TechnologiesMonitoring ToolsSecurity PrinciplesProblem SolvingWorking Under Pressure

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree7 Years Related ExperienceSystem Security Engineer or Information Security Engineer ExperienceUS CitizenshipActive Top Secret Clearance With SCI Eligibility

Full job description

Join Tau Six, an agile small company that delivers cutting edge cybersecurity and system integration services to the US National Security market. We have an immediate need for a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer and are seeking a motivated self-starter with experience in secure information systems to join a team of professionals and help defend national security systems.

The Senior Cybersecurity Engineer is a senior technologist who assists the customer with the identification, integration, and oversight of security technologies within customer enterprise networks. The ideal candidate will bring excellent cybersecurity knowledge to the program and be able to integrate a wide array of security products and technologies. The Senior Cybersecurity Engineer ensures that cybersecurity requirements are effectively integrated into information systems through purposeful security architecting, design, development, and configuration.

CLEARANCE REQUIRED: Active Top Secret US Government clearance with SCI eligibility

Responsibilities:

  • Define, plan, design, and evaluate information security systems and architecture

  • Perform requirements analysis, design, and integration for complex security integrations and collaboration infrastructures

  • Engineer, implement and oversee security measures for the protection of computer systems, networks and information

  • Identify and define system security requirements

  • Identifies, analyzes, and mitigates threats to hosted information systems. Uses cybersecurity tools, defensive measures, and information collected from a variety of sources to identify, analyze, and report events that occur or might occur within the enterprise network in order to protect information, information systems, and networks from threats.

  • Design computer security architecture and develop detailed cyber security designs

  • Participate in the change management process, and assesses security impact of proposed changes

  • Identify deficiencies (POA&M) and provide recommendations for solutions

  • Create and maintains existing information system security documentation, including SSP, SCTM, Security Configuration Guide

  • Write implementation and design documents describing how security features are implemented

  • Develop technical solutions and new security tools to help mitigate security vulnerabilities and automate repeatable tasks

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree and 7 years related experience required

  • Requires technical knowledge in security engineering and IT systems engineering

  • Proven work experience as a system security engineer or information security engineer

  • Experience in building and maintaining security systems

  • Detailed technical knowledge of network and operating system security

  • Hands on experience in security systems, including firewalls, intrusion detection systems, anti-virus software, authentication systems, log management, content filtering, etc

  • Experience with network security and networking technologies and with system, security, and network monitoring tools

  • Thorough understanding of the latest security principles, techniques, and tools

  • Problem solving skills and ability to work under pressure

Security Requirements

  • US Citizenship required and active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility

How this job compares

Set against the 1,758 open Cybersecurity Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • Virginia median$122–199K/yr150 salary ranges
  • US median$57–67/hr33 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 197 open Cybersecurity Engineer jobs in Virginia and 1,758 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Virginia
Experience
This posting asks for at least 7 years of experience; Cybersecurity Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (1,625 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 512 of the 1,758 open Cybersecurity Engineer jobs (29%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 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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