Security Engineer Lead

Company: LTS Inc.
Location: Washington
Posted on: June 2, 2025

Job Description:

LTS is seeking an experienced Security Engineer Lead to support a program within the Department of Commerce. This position is responsible for leading technical security initiatives, identifying and mitigating cybersecurity risks, and ensuring that the department's IT systems, networks, and applications are protected from internal and external threats. The Lead Security Engineer will collaborate closely with other IT and cybersecurity teams to enforce best practices, address vulnerabilities, and support compliance with relevant regulations and standards. This position is on-site in Washington D.C.Responsibilities:

• Conduct Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) of the application's security design for the appropriate security controls, which protect the confidentiality and integrity of Personally Identifiable Information (PII).
• Design and develop cybersecurity or cybersecurity-enabled products.
• Design hardware, operating systems, and software applications to adequately address cybersecurity requirements.
• Design or integrate appropriate data backup capabilities into overall system designs and ensure that appropriate technical and procedural processes exist for secure system backups and protected storage of backup data.
• Develop and direct system testing and validation procedures and documentation.
• Develop detailed security design documentation for component and interface specifications to support system design and development.
• Develop Disaster Recovery and Continuity of Operations plans for systems under development and ensure testing prior to systems entering a production environment.
• Develop specific cybersecurity countermeasures and risk mitigation strategies for systems and/or applications.
• Identify and direct the remediation of technical problems encountered during testing and implementation of new systems.
• Identify and prioritize essential system functions or sub-systems required to support essential capabilities or business functions for restoration or recovery after a system failure or during a system recovery event.
• Identify, assess, and recommend cybersecurity or cybersecurity-enabled products for use within a system and ensure that recommended products are in compliance with organization's evaluation and validation requirements.
• Implement security designs for new or existing system(s).
• Incorporate cybersecurity vulnerability solutions into system designs.
• Perform risk analysis whenever an application or system undergoes a major change.
• Design, implement, test, and evaluate secure interfaces between information systems, physical systems, and/or embedded technologies.
• Design, develop, integrate, and update system security measures that provide confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, and non-repudiation.
• Design security requirements to ensure requirements are met for all systems and/or applications.
• Develop mitigation strategies to address cost, schedule, performance, and security risks.
• Perform security reviews and identify security gaps in architecture.
• Trace system requirements to design components and perform gap analysis.
• Verify stability, interoperability, portability, and/or scalability of system architecture.Required Skills, Experience & Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in cybersecurity engineering or a related field.
• Certification as a network engineer and/or industry standard certifications (e.g. Security+, CISSP) is required.
• Must be a U.S. citizen.
• Extensive experience with security tools and technologies, such as SIEM, IDS/IPS, endpoint protection, firewalls, vulnerability scanning, and encryption technologies.
• Proficiency in security protocols, encryption standards, and secure communication practices.
• Familiarity with cloud security models (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and securing cloud-based infrastructures.
• Strong knowledge of IT networking concepts (e.g., TCP/IP, VPNs, firewalls, IDS/IPS) and network security.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to deliver clear, concise reports and messages to all levels of management.
• Excellent interpersonal abilities, with a strong capacity to work independently with minimal supervision or guidance.
• Strong analytical abilities and problem-solving skills, with the ability to design effective solutions for complex challenges.
• Experience working with federal agencies or understanding of government-specific cybersecurity regulations and standards.
• Deep understanding of federal procurement and contracting processes, project life cycles, and government reporting requirements.
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