Security Automation Engineer Job Washington District of Columbia USA,IT/Tech

SkyePoint Decisions is a leading Cybersecurity Architecture and Engineering, Critical Infrastructure and Operations, and Applications Development and Maintenance IT service provider headquartered in Dulles, Virginia with operations across the U.S. We provide innovative enterprise-wide solutions as well as targeted services addressing the complex challenges faced by our federal government clients. Our focus is on enabling our clients to deliver their mission most efficiently and effectively – anytime, anywhere, securely.

We combine technical expertise, mission awareness, and an empowered workforce to produce meaningful results.

This is a contingent position based upon contract win.

SkyePoint Decisions is seeking a Security Automation Engineer to join our team supporting a federal customer. This position is contingent on contract win.

This is a remote position.

This person will e ngineer automated security controls, scans, evidence, and compliance checks within customer's Dev Sec Ops environment so security is continuously integrated into software development and delivery.

Responsibilities:

Integrate and operate SAST, DAST, IAST, software composition analysis, SBOM, secrets/dependency scanning, and infrastructure-as-code security review capabilities.
Automate collection, normalization, correlation, and routing of security findings and evidence into approved workflows and repositories.
Develop security gates, policy checks, dashboards, notifications, and exception-handling workflows within customer-approved platforms.
Support continuous penetration-testing activities and incorporation of results into development and remediation workflows.
Implement security automation aligned with NIST SP 800-218, applicable OMB/CISA guidance, STIGs, CIS benchmarks, and customer standards.
Collaborate with developers and platform engineers to remediate findings and improve secure coding, pipeline controls, and release readiness.
Maintain security automation code, configurations, procedures, evidence, and technical documentation.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field with 8+ years of experience.
Hands-on experience with application security, Dev Sec Ops security tooling, security scanning, vulnerability management, or compliance automation.
Experience scripting or developing integrations to automate security checks, evidence collection, reporting, and remediation workflows.
Working knowledge of secure software development and cloud/security control frameworks.
Ability to obtain a 6c Public Trust. At least an active Secret clearance is highly preferred.
U.S. Citizenship is required.

Preferred Qualifications:

SCA/SBOM generation and analysis
NIST SP 800-218 / SSDF
AWS security services
Python or comparable scripting
Git Lab security integration

Compensation:

Salary Range: TBD

The SkyePoint Decisions salary range for this position is a general guideline only. It represents an estimated range for this position and is just one piece of our total compensation package.

Salary at SkyePoint is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, work schedule, the candidate’s combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability, market data and business considerations.

In addition to a competitive salary, SkyePoint offers benefits including a certification incentive program, PTO, floating federal holiday options, several insurance options including HMO and High Deductible plans with Health Savings Accounts [HSAs], Flex Spending Accounts [FSAs], Full Dental Plans, Vision, ST/LT Disability, Life Insurance, and 401k matched.

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