Lead Security Engineer (AI)

Location: Bethesda, MD, United States. The role supports a secure, on-premises Federal platform within a Government-approved security boundary.

Company

hirify.global is a public-sector consulting and information technology solutions provider supporting health, civilian, and national security missions.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and lead cybersecurity engineering across platform architecture, infrastructure, applications, data, APIs, DevSecOps pipelines, and AI services.
• Translate FISMA Moderate and NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 requirements into technical controls, implementation evidence, and assessment-ready documentation.
• Engineer access control, authentication, authorization, encryption, certificates, secrets, key management, audit logging, and data-protection safeguards.
• Integrate security scanning, compliance checks, vulnerability management, and remediation into CI/CD pipelines.
• Support incident response, continuous monitoring, threat modeling, security assessments, audits, POA&Ms, and vulnerability assessments.
• Coordinate with security, CIO/CISO, platform, infrastructure, application, data, AI/ML, DevOps, and Government stakeholders.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in cybersecurity engineering, security architecture, information assurance, or a related field.
• Experience designing and implementing security controls for Federal information systems, preferably in FISMA/RMF environments.
• Strong knowledge of FISMA, NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5, RMF, secure software development, and DevSecOps.
• Hands-on experience with Linux, Docker, Kubernetes and/or Rancher, enterprise infrastructure, applications, databases, APIs, networks, and on-premises or hybrid platforms.
• Experience with IAM, RBAC, privileged access, vulnerability management, SAST/SCA/DAST, container security, secure API design, logging, monitoring, and incident response.
• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain Top Secret eligibility are required; an active Top Secret clearance is highly preferred.

Nice to have

• Experience with Federal financial management, grants management, payment systems, award oversight, or financial reporting.
• Experience securing AI/ML or open-source LLM workloads in on-premises, restricted, or disconnected environments.
• Experience with SIEM, SOAR, EDR, security automation, infrastructure-as-code security, or FedRAMP-authorized environments.
• Security certifications such as CISSP, Security+, SecurityX/CASP+, CCSP, CISM, or GIAC.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with multidisciplinary professionals supporting Federal health, civilian, and national security missions.
• Employer-paid health care.
• Training and development funds.
• 401(k) match and opportunities for bonuses.