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Senior Security Engineer

Futrend Technology

  • Bethesda, Maryland
  • 30 days ago
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    • Data Qualityunmatched
    • Endpoint Securityunmatched
    • Engineeringunmatched
    • Federal Governmentunmatched
    • Financial Managementunmatched
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    • Health Information Technologyunmatched
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    Description

    Title: Senior Security Engineer
    Location: Bethesda, MD (Onsite)
    Futrend Technology, Inc. is an innovative business and technology solutions provider delivering high‑value IT services to federal agencies. Our core competencies include Healthcare IT, Federal Financial Management, and Grants Management, with proven success in complex, real‑time system integration and enterprise‑wide implementations.
    By leveraging industry best practices, modern technologies, and a customer‑centric approach, Futrend supports mission‑critical federal programs with measurable results. Our team is built on values of integrity, excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement, and we actively invest in our people’s professional growth.
    We offer a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.
     
    Position Overview
    Futrend Technology is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join a high‑performing team responsible for solving complex federal security challenges through advanced analytics, automation, and scalable security engineering.
    This role is ideal for an architect‑level security professional who thrives in data‑driven environments, enjoys building cross‑platform security visibility, and can translate technical complexity into actionable insights for both operational teams and executive leadership. The position offers the opportunity to work on high‑visibility federal systems that directly support cybersecurity, compliance, and risk management objectives.
     
    Key Responsibilities
    • Design, engineer, and operationalize end‑to‑end security visibility across large‑scale federal environments
    • Integrate and correlate data from multiple security and infrastructure platforms to deliver accurate, authoritative security insights
    • Develop scalable security analytics, dashboards, and reporting aligned with compliance and operational requirements
    • Serve as a technical bridge between security, cloud, operations, and leadership teams
    • Enable continuous improvement of vulnerability posture, asset coverage, and compliance metrics through automation and engineering rigor
    • Support audit‑ready security reporting aligned with federal standards and mandates
     
    Required Qualifications & Capabilities
    Core Qualifications
    • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical findings into actionable insights
    • Strong collaboration and problem‑solving abilities in cross‑functional environments
    • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
    • 5+ years of information security experience, including 3+ years focused on cloud security
     
    Security Architecture & Visibility
    • Proven ability to design and maintain cross‑platform security visibility models spanning vulnerability management, endpoint security, logging and analytics platforms and cloud and on‑premise environments
    • Deep understanding of authoritative asset inventories, agent coverage validation, and vulnerability posture tracking in large enterprise or federal environments
    • Experience correlating security telemetry across diverse tools to produce reliable operational and executive‑level insights
    Vulnerability Management & Tenable Engineering
    • Advanced, hands‑on expertise with Tenable Security Center and Nessus, including:
    • Ability to create custom vulnerability analytics beyond native tool interfaces
    • Experience normalizing vulnerability data by plugin Id, asset characteristics, operating system, vulnerability age
    • Strong capabilities in large‑scale filtering, including CIDR ranges, IP segmentation, and dynamic exclusions
     
    Splunk Engineering & Security Analytics
    • Advanced Splunk engineering skills, including complex SPL development
    • Experience building and maintaining production‑grade XML dashboards for both operations and executive stakeholders
    • Proficiency in Lookup‑based normalization and asset resolution and enrichment workflows
    • Ability to develop snapshots, trending views, and compliance metrics with high data accuracy and integrity
     
    Automation & Engineering
    • Strong proficiency in Python for security automation, analytics and reporting, and custom operational tooling
    • Experience developing tools that integrate with security platform APIs to normalize and enrich data, correlate assets across systems, and validate agent health and coverage
     
    Cloud Security & Compliance
    • Strong working knowledge of AWS and Azure security including: logging and telemetry, resource tagging strategies, and ephemeral asset tracking
    • Experience aligning security reporting with FedRAMP and OMB M‑21‑31 requirements
    • Ability to translate compliance mandates into measurable, technical security controls
     
    Preferred Qualifications
    • Experience working in regulated federal environments with complex governance and compliance requirements
    • AWS Certified Security – Specialty (or equivalent cloud security certification)
     
     

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationBethesda, Maryland
    IndustryComputer/IT Services
    Company Size50 to 99 employees
    Websitehttp://www.futrend.com/

    About Company

    About
    FUTREND’s success comes from combining strong domain knowledge in information technology and technical expertise in system engineering and development, as well as design, testing, and deployment. We work with Federal agencies to improve, implement, and integrate financial systems; provide business process support and analysis; and deliver enhancements, upgrades, and extensions to their systems. With in-depth knowledge, hands-on experience; and cutting-edge technology and tools to support our service offering, we bring expertise and innovation to every task.

    FUTREND currently offers a wide range of various professional services to clients. We provide ongoing support of existing activities as well as perform root-cause analysis of identified problems so that we can help agencies improve their processes and prevent issues from recurring in the future.

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