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Cybersecurity Infrastructure Engineer
Securities and Exchange Commission · Posted 93 days ago
On-site Washington, DC $153K – $259K Apply by Jul 16, 2026 Information Technology Management INTJ Engineering
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The Office of Information Technology is seeking applications for their IT Specialist (INFOSEC) (Cybersecurity Infrastructure Engineer) position. You will engineer, operate, and sustain the enterprise defensive network infrastructure-next-generation firewalls, SASE/ZTNA, and SD-WAN that protects SEC systems and data. As a senior technical authority and escalation point, you will lead capability projects, guide supporting contractors, and strengthen the SEC's defenses against cyber threats.
What You'll Do
- →In this role as a Cybersecurity Infrastructure Engineer, you will be responsible for: Engineering, deploying, and sustaining the SEC's enterprise network security infrastructure-next-generation firewalls, SASE/ZTNA, and SD-WAN-to ensure availability, performance, and a defensible security posture.
- →Operating and maintaining defensive platforms day-to-day, including configuration management, policy tuning, software/firmware lifecycle and patching, capacity planning, and health monitoring.
- →Serving as the senior technical authority and escalation point for complex infrastructure issues, providing advanced troubleshooting and resolution, and directing technical work of supporting contractor staff.
- →Leading engineering projects end-to-end-requirements, design, testing, and implementation-for new and upgraded capabilities such as SASE/ZTNA and SD-WAN across enterprise and hybrid (on-premises and cloud) environments.
- →Developing and maintaining secure configuration baselines, standard operating procedures, and engineering documentation, and automating repeatable configuration and operational tasks to improve consistency and reduce manual effort.
- →Translating threat intelligence and detection findings into infrastructure-level defensive improvements-firewall policy, segmentation, access control, and traffic inspection-to harden the environment against current adversary tactics.
- →Collaborating with the SOC, logging and observability, and network operations teams, and with product vendors, to integrate capabilities, resolve issues, and align infrastructure with operational and mission requirements.
- →Operating and supporting intrusion detection sensor infrastructure to ensure reliable security telemetry delivery to the SOC and logging/observability teams.
- →Identifying gaps in defensive coverage, resilience, and operational processes; recommending and implementing improvements; and providing technical input to architecture and roadmap decisions.
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