Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

Job overview

The Senior Cybersecurity Engineer role is fully remote within the continental United States and pays $120,000–$135,000 per year. The posting requires U.S. citizenship for program eligibility. Raft is a defense technology company providing AI/ML and data solutions to U.S. military and government agencies; its headquarters are in McLean, VA. The engineer secures and improves a cloud platform that provides access to protected Department of Defense resources across classified and unclassified environments. Working with product, DevSecOps, site reliability, software engineering, and government teams, the role integrates security into platform operations and delivery.

What you'll do

• Maintain cybersecurity posture across cloud environments
• support ATO and continuous ATO requirements
• identify and remediate vulnerabilities
• integrate security controls and automated testing into DevSecOps and GitOps workflows
• support continuous monitoring
• develop security automation using infrastructure and configuration as code
• maintain hardened platform components
• support Zero Trust, identity, access control, PKI, and network security
• maintain RMF documentation
• troubleshoot security and access issues.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

remote

continental united states

raft

senior cybersecurity engineer

cloud security

devsecops

kubernetes

zero trust

dod

secret clearance eligible

u.s. citizenship required

$120k–$135k/year

401(k) match

paid holidays

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Fully covered healthcare, dental, and vision
• 401(k) with company match
• take-as-needed PTO and 11 paid holidays
• education and training benefits
• referral bonuses.

Why this role

Fully remote work within the continental U.S.; U.S. citizenship is required for program eligibility, and the role requires the ability to obtain and maintain an active Secret clearance.

About the employer

Raft Company Website is hiring for this role. Industry: Computer Systems Design Services. Sector: 54.