# Information Security Engineer

**Company**: Tenable
**Location**: Columbia, Maryland
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $102,500-$136,500 USD
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Tenable's InfoSec team is looking for a Security Engineer to join our Security Engineering & Architecture group. This role involves securing cloud environments and supporting general security engineering disciplines across the business.

Your Opportunity:

- Support day-to-day cloud security operations, monitoring, triage, and remediation of findings across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP environments using CNAPP/CSPM tooling.

- Contribute to Security Architecture Reviews for new systems, integrations, and vendor onboarding.

- Help identify and document misconfigurations, excessive permissions, and insecure IaC patterns.

- Participate in risk assessments and threat modeling exercises for new projects.

- Assist with IAM/RBAC reviews and least-privilege efforts.

- Build foundational familiarity with how AI/agentic systems intersect with our environment.

- Work cross-functionally with engineering, GRC, and TPRM to keep architecture reviews and cloud findings moving.

What You'll Need:

- 2–3 years of experience in a security engineering, cloud security, IT security, or related technical role.

- Working knowledge of at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

- Basic understanding of security architecture review or threat modeling concepts.

- Familiarity with core security engineering practices.

- Comfort reading documentation and asking good questions across unfamiliar systems.

- Strong written communication.

And Ideally:

- Exposure to IaC security scanning or CNAPP/CSPM/CIEM platforms.

- Some hands-on exposure to a formal architecture/design review process.

- Basic familiarity with AI/LLM concepts.

- A relevant certification or equivalent self-directed learning.

- Prior exposure to compliance frameworks.

The base pay range for this position is $102,500-$136,500 USD. Tenable also offers a variety of comprehensive and competitive benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- cloud security
- security engineering
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- CNAPP/CSPM
- Security Architecture Reviews
- threat modeling
- IAM/RBAC
- least-privilege access

### Nice to have
- IaC security scanning
- formal architecture/design review process
- AI/LLM concepts
- compliance frameworks

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