Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

Job overview

The Senior Cybersecurity Engineer role is an onsite position in Princeton, NJ; the posting also identifies Boulder, CO as an office option. Pay is $124,000–$158,000 per year. SciTec develops technologies supporting U.S. national security and defense missions, including missile defense, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, space domain awareness, and aircraft survivability. The engineer leads cybersecurity implementation and integration, hardens mission infrastructure, supports vulnerability management and compliance, develops SIEM capabilities, and helps prepare for incident response to protect systems and meet security requirements.

What you'll do

• Lead CrowdStrike implementation and integration across virtual, physical, and cloud environments
• harden servers, network devices, storage, and supporting platforms
• support vulnerability prioritization and remediation
• advise infrastructure teams on architecture and segmentation
• lead technical work for CMMC and NIST 800-171 requirements
• create SIEM queries and maintain CrowdStrike NG-SIEM log parsing
• ensure logging, monitoring, and access controls meet requirements
• identify and mitigate cybersecurity risks
• support incident response preparation and forensic readiness
• communicate security posture and remediation plans.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior cybersecurity engineer

cybersecurity

crowdstrike

ng-siem

cmmc

nist 800-171

princeton nj

boulder co

scitec

$124k–$158k/year

u.s. citizenship required

dod clearance

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• 401(k) match
• company-paid medical, dental, vision, life, long-term disability, and hospital indemnity insurance
• profit-sharing plan
• performance bonus
• paid parental leave
• paid time off
• flexible work hours.

Why this role

The posting requires U.S. citizenship for government-contract work and the ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense security clearance.

About the employer

SciTec is hiring for this role. Industry: Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology). Sector: 54.