Senior Cybersecurity Engineer
Bluestaq US External2 months ago
Colorado Springs, CO, USASenior
Base Salary
$100k - $155k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own vulnerability scanning, mission-risk triage, remediation tracking, and verified closure across the fleet.
- Build and tune SIEM detection rules mapped to MITRE ATT&CK tactics.
- Respond to security incidents through containment, scoping, status reporting, and post-mortem documentation.
- Maintain endpoint antivirus and on-access scanning coverage, policies, and definition currency.
- Apply DISA STIGs to Linux and Windows systems and manage POA&Ms and compliance artifacts in RMF platforms.
- Provide CI/CD pipeline and architecture security guidance to help developers identify and remediate vulnerabilities before production.
- Review threat intelligence and external incident disclosures and convert findings into deployed detection logic.
Requirements
- Production experience across the vulnerability lifecycle, including scanning, risk-based triage, and verified remediation closure.
- Hands-on SIEM detection engineering beyond query execution, including rule creation and tuning mapped to MITRE ATT&CK.
- Practical incident response experience involving containment, scoping, root-cause analysis, and post-mortems.
- Applied DISA STIG, NIST RMF, operating-system hardening, POA&M, and compliance-platform experience.
- Endpoint anti-malware or on-access scanning deployment and fleet-maintenance experience.
- Production Linux and Windows systems administration experience.
- Experience with AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, or an equivalent cloud platform.
- Scripting and automation experience with Python, Bash, Go, or similar, plus configuration management or infrastructure-as-code experience with Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent.
- Ability to translate threat intelligence into deployed detection logic and guide secure CI/CD and architecture practices.
- Required education and experience may be met with a high school diploma/GED and 8+ years, an associate degree and 6+ years, a bachelor's degree and 4+ years, or a master's degree and 2+ years of relevant experience.
- Strong investigative, written, verbal communication, documentation, ownership, and follow-through skills.
- An active TS/SCI clearance may be required; current clearance holders are strongly encouraged to apply.
Benefits
- The employer will sponsor eligible candidates through the TS/SCI clearance process based on program needs if they do not currently hold a clearance.
- Relocation assistance may be available and is evaluated case by case.
- Applications are accepted for 60 days beyond the posting date or until the position is filled, whichever comes first.
About Bluestaq US External
Bluestaq builds data integration and management platforms that break down silos and deliver time-critical information across defense, government, and commercial environments. Its software and secure infrastructure support space domain awareness and satellite command-and-control workflows, including work with U.S. Space Force programs. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Colorado Springs, it operates globally with teams in London, Brisbane, and Canberra, and is privately held.