Cyber Security Engineer

Job Summary

To support cybersecurity modernization for the Department of Veterans Affairs, the full-time remote Security Automation / Cyber Security Engineer will design and implement automation for security compliance data collection, assessment, and reporting across a large-scale digital platform.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automated processes for collecting security and compliance evidence from various data sources
• Build integrations and data pipelines that aggregate and normalize security information from multiple tools and platforms
• Develop security metrics and dashboards to provide near-real-time visibility into control posture and remediation status

Required qualifications

• Associate's degree and four years of relevant experience, or Bachelor's degree and two years of relevant experience
• Five years of experience as a Cyber Security Engineer may substitute for a degree
• Experience developing automation using Python, JavaScript, or another scripting/programming language
• Experience integrating data from APIs, cloud platforms, CI/CD systems, and security tools
• Working knowledge of cybersecurity concepts including security controls and compliance