Senior Cybersecurity Engineer Specialist

Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC), an independent, nonprofit applied scientific research and development organization, is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to join its internal Information Technology team. This senior-level role is responsible for strengthening and advancing the organization's cybersecurity posture by providing technical leadership across enterprise security initiatives, cloud technologies, identity and access management, endpoint protection, vulnerability management, and data security. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to develop innovative security solutions that protect critical business systems while enabling CTC's mission to deliver advanced technology solutions for government and industry.

The ideal candidate is an experienced cybersecurity professional with a strong background in Microsoft security technologies, Azure Government, Microsoft 365, and enterprise security operations. This individual will serve as a trusted technical expert, driving security improvements, evaluating emerging threats and technologies, and helping shape cybersecurity strategy through automation, secure architecture, and modern security best practices. Success in this role requires strong analytical and problem-solving skills, a collaborative mindset, and the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders while supporting compliance with government and industry cybersecurity standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• General Security Operations
  - Participate in incident response activities, continuous monitoring, and the development of security standards and procedures in collaboration with internal cyber, IT, development, and data security teams.
• Vulnerability & Threat Management
  - Perform threat hunting by analyzing threat feeds from various government and commercial sources and leveraging Rapid7 Insight VM and Microsoft Cloud tools to scan, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities across on-premises and cloud assets.
• Endpoint & Device Security
  - Administer endpoint security systems (Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Sentinel One, Intune, EntraID, Azure) for threat detection, investigation, and automated response across enterprise devices with a focus on compliance policies, configuration profiles, and conditional access enforcement.
• Identity Security
  - Support and harden Microsoft Entra , including conditional access, multi-factor authentication, privileged identity management, and identity governance.
• Cloud Security
  - Apply, monitor, and enforce security best practices across Azure Gov cloud services and Microsoft 365, ensuring alignment with government compliance frameworks (e.g., FedRAMP, NIST 800-171, CMMC as applicable).
• Data Protection
  - Configure and manage Microsoft Purview data loss prevention (DLP), insider risk management and support compliance and eDiscovery initiatives, ensuring data governance policies are enforced across the M365 environment.
• Secure Software Development & Automation
  - Collaborate with development and Dev Ops teams to embed security into the software development lifecycle (SDLC), including secure coding practices, code review, and dependency scanning.
• AI-Related Security
  - Evaluate security considerations associated with the adoption of AI and generative AI tools, including data leakage, prompt injection, model misuse, and shadow AI risks while contributing to the development of AI usage guardrails and monitoring practices aligned with emerging federal AI security guidance.

Why CTC?

• Our teams at CTC are passionate and thrive on collaboration in a team environment.
• When we encounter a difficult problem, we have a variety of talented and diverse employees that work together to solve the toughest challenges.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Although our work at CTC is extremely important, we also recognize the need for our employees to maintain a proper mix of work and personal life.
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Join us! CTC offers exceptional career growth, cutting edge technology, educational opportunities, and recognition for quality work.