# Director of Defense Security

**Company**: Applied Intuition, Inc.
**Location**: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $200,000 - $260,000 USD annually
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for a highly technical and operationally strong Director of Security to lead defense security, compliance, and IT for our growing Gov Business Unit. This is not a “check-the-box” compliance leadership role. This leader will architect, scale, and operate secure environments handling Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), classified workloads, regulated development environments, and mission-critical defense programs across multiple geographies and regulatory regimes.

You will lead a team of 10+ security and IT professionals, as well as 6 secure facilities across Applied U.S. locations and drive the execution across security engineering, IT, compliance, and classified operations while partnering closely with the Global Security org, Engineering, Product, Legal, Facilities, Government Programs, and executive leadership.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading security and IT strategy for the Defense Business Unit across classified and unclassified environments.

- Leading and scaling the Government Security, Defense Cyber, and Defense IT organizations.

- Architecting and operating secure enterprise and engineering environments supporting CUI and classified data handling.

- Building and scaling secure networks, enclave architectures, endpoint security, identity systems, monitoring capabilities, and operational controls for defense programs.

You will also partner with engineering and product organizations to enable secure development and deployment pipelines for regulated environments, and own execution for secure enterprise architecture, classified network operations, identity and access management, detection and response, vulnerability management, asset management, endpoint and infrastructure security, security operations and monitoring, insider risk and data protection.

The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity, infrastructure, enterprise IT, or security engineering leadership roles, with experience leading security and IT programs in defense, aerospace, government, or highly regulated environments.

Required qualifications include U.S. Citizenship, active security clearance, and ability to work onsite 5 days per week from Virginia/DC office location.

## Skills

### Required
- cybersecurity
- infrastructure
- enterprise IT
- security engineering
- CUI handling
- classified environments
- secure enclave architectures
- government cloud and hybrid environments
- enterprise security architecture
- Zero Trust principles

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