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From the employer's careers site First seen 25 Oct 2026

Cyber Security Engineer

GDIT Huntsville, AL On-site senior full-time

Salary

$111,155 - $150,385 per year

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Description

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Cybersecurity Engineer at GDIT. You will serve as a key technical authority supporting Cybersecurity Service Provider (CSSP) and Defensive Cyberspace Operations (DCO), ensuring cyber resiliency across mission systems.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Provide technical leadership and oversight across cybersecurity functions, including incident response, cyber defense, threat hunt, forensics, vulnerability management, and threat emulation.
  • Oversee 24/7 cyber defense monitoring, detection, and incident classification activities.
  • Lead teams performing vulnerability analysis, ACAS posture rollups, IAVM trending, PPSM compliance assessments, and endpoint security rollups.
  • Guide intelligence-driven threat hunt missions and develop analytics, rulesets, and countermeasures for CSSP toolsets.
  • Oversee technical documentation, quality, and compliance, including SOPs, TTPs, CTOs, COAs, forensic reports, and training materials.
  • Lead development and refinement of Elastic dashboards, data enrichment pipelines, anomaly detection models, and threat analytics.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
  • 7+ years of cybersecurity engineering or cyber operations experience in DoD or federal environments.
  • 3+ years in a technical leadership role.
  • CISSP – Certified Information Systems Security Professional required.
  • Extensive experience with SIEM/EDR platforms, Elastic Stack, ACAS, and cyber defense analytics.
  • Strong knowledge of RMF and deep understanding of cyber incident response processes and detection engineering.

Benefits:

  • Medical plan options with Health Savings Accounts.
  • Dental and vision plans.
  • 401(k) plan with company match.
  • Paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, and parental leave.
  • Short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance.

Skills

Required

  • Cyber Defense
  • Cyber Operations
  • Forensic Sciences
  • Information Assurance
  • Information System Security
  • SIEM/EDR platforms
  • Elastic Stack
  • ACAS
  • RMF

Nice to have

  • GIAC Certifications
  • Elastic
  • DoD 8140/8570 certifications
  • CTE environments
  • advanced adversary simulation

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://gdit.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Career_Site/job/USA-AL-Huntsville/Cyber-Security-Engineer_RQ230249

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