Senior Cybersecurity Engineer (Lead role, Need locals to NY)

Job Title/Role : Lead Cyber Security Engineer Locations: Kings Point, NY Duration: 6 Months contract to full time hire

Pref consultant's with Active Clearance

Job Responsibilities:

- Ensure compliance with NIST CSF and RMF to maintain accreditation and protect system confidentiality, integrity, and availability

- Provide strategic and tactical security guidance, recommending technical and administrative controls

- Direct and mature the Incident Response Program, including triage, escalation, documentation, and after-action improvements

- Administer enterprise security policies, maintain SOPs/checklists, and drive continuous monitoring and process enhancements

- Lead threat and vulnerability management: scanning, pen-test coordination, risk scoring, and remediation tracking

- Conduct threat landscape assessments, business impact analyses, and risk treatment recommendations

- Oversee development of cybersecurity procedures (International Travel, BYOD, secure communications)

- Manage recurring reviews of SSPs, POA&Ms, annual security plans, account audits, and risk acceptance packages

- Serve as primary cybersecurity liaison to DOT, MARAD, auditors, and federal oversight entities

- Support Zero Trust Architecture and broader security architecture modernization

- Lead quarterly and biannual IR tabletop exercises and integrate lessons learned

- Coordinate ITSEC team training and cross-functional knowledge sharing

- Maintain security documentation, templates, policies, and recurring reports (Awareness Bulletins, POA&M dashboards, CSAM reporting)

Skills Required:

- Minimum 12 years of progressive cybersecurity experience

- Experience with NIST RMF, ATO, C&A processes, POA&M development, and federal audit preparation.

- Experience in Security Testing & Evaluation, risk assessments, policy and procedure development.

- Experience in U.S. Government contracting or federal cybersecurity environments.

- Strong leadership experience and ability to guide Infrastructure, Applications, and Cyber teams in a collaborative security posture.

- Demonstrated ability to communicate security requirements to technical and non-technical stakeholders, lead governance meetings, and interact with senior federal leadership.

- Expertise with incident response, vulnerability management tools, security event analysis, and risk treatment methodologies.

Skills Preferred:

- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related field.

- ITIL v3 Foundation certification.

- CISM, CISSP or other advanced security management certifications.

- Azure Security certications

- Experience with Zero Trust Architecture, Cloud security standards, and federal enclave cybersecurity operations.

- Experience with leading training, cyber awareness initiatives, and security program development.

- Experience working in a college or university

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $80.00 - $90.00 per hour

Experience:

- Cybersecurity: 10 years (Required)

- NIST RMF, ATO: 1 year (Required)

- Zero Trust Architecture: 1 year (Preferred)

Security clearance:

- Confidential (Preferred)

Work Location: In person