# Senior Manager, Cybersecurity (R6149)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Washington, D.C.
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full Time Employee
**Salary**: USD 170,000-250,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Shield AI is seeking a Senior Manager, Cybersecurity to lead the security strategy behind advanced, mission-critical technology. The successful candidate will drive secure and scalable solutions, collaborate across technical and business teams, and help ensure complex systems are protected, compliant, and ready for real-world operations.

## Responsibilities

- Lead the security strategy behind advanced, mission-critical technology

- Own the authorization portfolio, including holding overall accountability for RMF execution across all Shield AI classified systems

- Build the capability, not just the packages, including defining the enterprise continuous monitoring strategy

- Partner across the company, working with IT, network, platform, and product security engineers

- Own incident response leadership on classified systems

## Requirements

- Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field

- 8+ years of experience in cybersecurity engineering, defense systems, mission systems, or military aerospace programs

- Experience leading cybersecurity activities for complex integrated systems or defense platforms

- Strong knowledge of RMF, STIGs, system hardening, network security, secure architectures, and vulnerability management processes

- Active Top Secret Clearance with SCI Eligibility

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience supporting military aircraft, UAV, mission systems, or tactical communication platforms

- Familiarity with resilient system architectures, zero trust principles, cross-domain solutions, and contested environment operations

- Experience with MBSE methodologies and tools such as Cameo Systems Modeler

## Additional Information

- Salary: USD 170,000-250,000 per-year-salary

- Full-time regular employee offer package: Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity

## Skills

### Required
- RMF
- STIGs
- system hardening
- network security
- secure architectures
- vulnerability management
- cybersecurity engineering
- defense systems

### Nice to have
- MBSE methodologies
- Cameo Systems Modeler
- resilient system architectures
- zero trust principles
- cross-domain solutions

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