Cyber Engineering SME
Listed on 2026-02-23
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IT/Tech
Cybersecurity
Overview
Type of Requisition: Regular
Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: None
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None
Public Trust/Other
Required:
MBI Full 5C (T3)
Job Family: Cyber and IT Risk Management
Job Qualifications:
Skills: Data Visualization, Machine Learning (ML), Quality Assurance (QA)
Certifications: None
Experience: 15 + years of related experience
US Citizenship
Required:
Yes
CYBERSECURITY ENGINEER SENIOR
Advance your career while impacting our national security in cyber as a Cybersecurity Engineer Senior e, technologists have many paths to grow a meaningful career supporting cyber missions and operations across the federal government.
Meaningful work and personal impact:
As a Cybersecurity Engineer Senior, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of the Internal Revenue Service, Information Technology Cybersecurity. You will play a crucial role in developing and operationalizing advanced analytics and machine learning models to identify subtle or evolving insider threats.
- Lead/Manage/Support:
The Insider Threat Engineering SME II is a senior technical lead responsible for the architecture, integration, and ongoing performance of insider threat platforms and engineering tools. - Collaborate with stakeholder groups to align detection strategies with mission priorities and ensure that the analytic framework remains effective and aligned to emerging insider threat tactics and data sources.
- Drive mission success by overseeing system design and data integration across all platforms and case management systems. The SME ensures that all technical systems supporting insider threat operations are robust while also leading automation efforts, ensuring data integrity, in alignment with governance policies across insider threat engineering workflows.
- Utilize User Behavior Analytics deterrence, detection, and monitoring in a large and diverse operational environment, behavioral science expertise, OSINT techniques, development of intelligence products, data mining, predictive and prescriptive analytics, link analysis, network analytics, text mining (structured and unstructured), and data visualization techniques.
Bring your cyber expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Cybersecurity Engineer Senior must have:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering (with equivalent demonstrated experience in field) or Master’s (preferred).
- Experience: 15-20+ years of related experience
- Technical skills: CISSP, CCITP
- Security clearance level: MBI
- US citizenship: Required
- Role requirements: Ability to perform machine learning, natural language, and statistical analysis methods, such as classification, collaborative filtering, association rules, topic modeling, time-series analysis, regression, statistical inference, and validation methods.
GDIT is your place. At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.
- Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
- Support:
An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals - Rewards:
Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off - Flexibility:
Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home - Community:
Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace
Own your opportunity. Explore a career in cyber at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your focus on defending and protecting what matters.
Salary: The likely salary range for this position is $119,000 - $161,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Scheduled Weekly
Hours:
40
Travel Required: None
Telecommuting Options: Remote
Work Location: Any Location / Remote
Total Rewards at GDIT: Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options,…
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