Senior Security Platform Engineer

Varmoda
  • Washington DC, DC
  • $100,000–$120,000 Per Year
  • Instant Apply
6 days ago

Job Description

Varmoda is seeking an experienced Senior Security Platform Engineer to engineer, integrate, and support enterprise security platforms across hybrid-cloud and on-premises environments.
This role focuses on vulnerability management, patching and remediation, endpoint security administration, and privileged access management (PAM) across Windows and Linux environments. The ideal candidate will have strong experience designing reliable enterprise services, troubleshooting complex infrastructure dependencies, automating operational workflows, and validating security and remediation outcomes across multiple security technologies.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, deploy, configure, upgrade, maintain, and troubleshoot enterprise vulnerability management, patch management, endpoint management, and privileged access platforms.
  • Engineer asset discovery and security-platform coverage across servers, endpoints, and cloud workloads.
  • Identify and remediate unmanaged assets, failed agents, stale inventories, and credentialed vulnerability-scanning gaps.
  • Design and operate end-to-end patching and remediation workflows, including:
    • Risk-based prioritization
    • Test rings and pilot deployments
    • Change windows
    • Deployment validation
    • Rollback procedures
    • Post-remediation verification
  • Correlate vulnerability findings with asset ownership, business criticality, exploit intelligence, ticketing workflows, exceptions, and remediation verification.
  • Engineer Privileged Access Management (PAM) controls, including account discovery, credential vaulting and rotation, just-in-time access, least-privilege administration, session auditing, service accounts, and service identities.
  • Diagnose platform outages and deployment failures involving agents, operating system services, firewalls, proxies, DNS, TLS certificates, credentials, APIs, and other infrastructure dependencies.
  • Develop automation for deployment, remediation, compliance validation, platform health monitoring, and reporting using PowerShell, Python, Bash, APIs, and configuration-management technologies.
  • Support platform upgrades, operational break/fix activities, incident response, root cause analysis, and backup/recovery validation.
  • Develop and maintain technical runbooks and repeatable operational processes for support teams.

Required Qualifications

  • 7+ years of hands-on experience in infrastructure engineering, endpoint engineering, security platform engineering, or a related discipline within large enterprise environments.
  • Demonstrated experience designing, deploying, integrating, and supporting enterprise solutions for one or more of the following:
    • Vulnerability management
    • Patch and endpoint management
    • Privileged Access Management (PAM)
  • Strong administration experience with Windows and Linux environments.
  • Hands-on knowledge of patching technologies, agent lifecycle management, service troubleshooting, and large-scale software or configuration deployments.
  • Practical knowledge of:
    • Authenticated vulnerability scanning
    • CVE and CVSS
    • CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV)
    • Exposure/risk-based vulnerability prioritization
    • Asset inventory and discovery
    • Remediation validation
  • Experience supporting Active Directory/LDAP, privileged identities, service accounts, credential rotation, session controls, and least-privilege access.
  • Strong troubleshooting knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, TLS/PKI, proxies, firewalls, REST APIs, and logging/integration issues.
  • Scripting and automation experience using PowerShell, Python, and/or Bash.
  • Ability to create and maintain technical runbooks, implement automation, and troubleshoot business-critical production services.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with one or more of the following technologies is preferred:
  • Tanium
  • Qualys
  • BeyondTrust
  • Microsoft Intune / MECM
  • BigFix
  • Tenable
  • Rapid7
  • CyberArk
  • Delinea
  • ServiceNow integrations
  • Splunk or other SIEM platforms
  • AWS and Azure cloud workloads
  • Git
  • Infrastructure automation
  • Configuration management technologies

Certifications & Clearance

Relevant certifications in the following areas are preferred:
  • Cybersecurity / Vulnerability Management
  • Privileged Access Management
  • Windows or Linux Administration
  • AWS or Microsoft Azure
  • Security Engineering / Infrastructure Security

About Varmoda

Varmoda is a federal IT solutions provider founded in 2020 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, delivering citizen-centric public services across Financial Assistance, Public Benefits, and Security & Defense domains. Our five-layer architecture — Salesforce (Engagement), Databricks (Data), ServiceNow (Orchestration), Pega (Decisioning), and Oracle HR (Capacity) — puts data at the common thread of every solution we build for federal agencies and the citizens they serve. Varmoda holds CMMI Maturity Level 3, ISO 9001, ISO 20000, and ISO 27001 certifications, and is recognized as a V3 veteran-friendly employer.

Why Varmoda

  • Growth opportunity within a fast-scaling federal IT firm
  • Direct impact on citizen-facing federal programs
  • Competitive benefits including 401k, health insurance, Paid Time Off, Life Insurance and others — customize per role/location (https://www.varmoda.com/benefits.html)
  • Veteran-friendly (V3) workplace culture

Numbers & Facts

LocationWashington DC, DC
Salary$100,000–$120,000 Per Year

Skills

  • Administrative Skillsunmatched
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
  • Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
  • Auditingunmatched
  • Authenticationunmatched
  • Automationunmatched
  • Bash Scriptingunmatched
  • CISA - Certified Information Systems Auditorunmatched
  • Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)unmatched
  • Cloud Computingunmatched
  • Computer Securityunmatched
  • Configuration Managementunmatched
  • DNS (Domain Name System)unmatched
  • Data Recoveryunmatched
  • Doctor of Nursing Science (DNS)unmatched
  • Endpoint Securityunmatched
  • Enterprise Protectionunmatched
  • Establish Prioritiesunmatched
  • Federal Governmentunmatched
  • Financial Servicesunmatched
  • Firewallsunmatched
  • Gitunmatched
  • Hybrid Cloudunmatched
  • ISO (International Organization for Standardization)unmatched
  • ISO 9001unmatched
  • Identify Issuesunmatched
  • Incident Responseunmatched
  • Internet Securityunmatched
  • Just in Time (JIT)unmatched
  • LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol)unmatched
  • Linux Administrationunmatched
  • Linux Operating Systemunmatched
  • Microsoft Active Directoryunmatched
  • Microsoft Product Familyunmatched
  • Microsoft Windows Azureunmatched
  • Microsoft Windows Operating Systemunmatched
  • Microsoft Windows System Administrationunmatched
  • Operating Systemsunmatched
  • Operational Supportunmatched
  • Operations Processesunmatched
  • Oracleunmatched
  • Public Financeunmatched
  • Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)unmatched
  • Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
  • REST (Representational State Transfer)unmatched
  • Riskunmatched
  • Root Cause Analysisunmatched
  • SSL-TLS (Secure Socket Layer - Transport Layer Security)unmatched
  • Salesforce.comunmatched
  • Scripting (Scripting Languages)unmatched
  • Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)unmatched
  • Security Infrastructureunmatched
  • ServiceNowunmatched
  • Software Configuration Managementunmatched
  • Software Patchesunmatched
  • Splunkunmatched
  • Systems Administration/Managementunmatched
  • TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol)unmatched
  • Testingunmatched
  • Vulnerability Scannersunmatched
  • Windows PowerShellunmatched

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