Cyber Security Systems Engineer / Contract to hire / Onsite / Carrollton, TX
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The Cyber Security Systems Engineer will deliver secure command-and-control systems for critical infrastructure, working across requirements, design, integration, validation, and deployment within a V-Model framework. The role is fully onsite in Carrollton, Texas, with a six-month contract-to-hire arrangement. The employer seeks a bachelor's degree, 5–7 years of hands-on cybersecurity experience, CISSP or equivalent certification, and familiarity with specified security standards.
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$60 - $70
Our client, a global radiation?safety and measurement company, is actively hiring a Cyber Security Systems Engineer to join their team in Carrollton, TX! This role will be fully onsite.
In this role, you will be owning their end-to-end delivery of secure command-and-control systems for critical infrastructure environments. You will be working across their requirements, design, integration, validation, and deployment within a V-Model framework.
Contract duration: 6 months to hire
Required Skills:
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Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, IT, or related
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5-7 years of hands-on cybersecurity experience
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CISSP or equivalent certification
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Familiarity with NIST SP 800-82, NIST SP 800-53, and IEC 62443 standards
Desired Skills:
- Prior experience working in defense, nuclear, or related regulated industries is a plus
What you will be doing:
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Translate customer cybersecurity needs into system and component-level specifications using the standard V-Model
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Design cybersecurity architectures for AIM SCS and COTS-based command-and-control solutions
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Architect platform environments for 20-30 Windows servers and workstations within their Active Directory domain
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Maintain configuration management records throughout the build
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Support Acceptance Testing, conduct vulnerability assessments and security scans, and disposition all findings
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Mentor junior engineers and serve as a technical point of contact
Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,789 open Cybersecurity Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$60–70/hr
- US median$57–67/hr35 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $65/hr, is close to the US median midpoint ($64/hr) — in the middle half of Cybersecurity Engineer hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 115 open Cybersecurity Engineer jobs in Texas and 1,789 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- Deloitte33 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Cybersecurity Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (1,650 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 561 of the 1,789 open Cybersecurity Engineer jobs (31%) 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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