Senior Security Engineer

Futrend Technology, Inc. is an innovative business and technology solutions provider delivering high‑value IT services to federal agencies. Our core competencies include Healthcare IT, Federal Financial Management, and Grants Management, with proven success in complex, real‑time system integration and enterprise‑wide implementations.

By leveraging industry best practices, modern technologies, and a customer‑centric approach, Futrend supports mission‑critical federal programs with measurable results. Our team is built on values of integrity, excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement, and we actively invest in our people’s professional growth.

We offer a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.

Position Overview

Futrend Technology is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join a high‑performing team responsible for solving complex federal security challenges through advanced analytics, automation, and scalable security engineering.

This role is ideal for an architect‑level security professional who thrives in data‑driven environments , enjoys building cross‑platform security visibility , and can translate technical complexity into actionable insights for both operational teams and executive leadership. The position offers the opportunity to work on high‑visibility federal systems that directly support cybersecurity, compliance, and risk management objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, and operationalize end‑to‑end security visibility across large‑scale federal environments
• Integrate and correlate data from multiple security and infrastructure platforms to deliver accurate, authoritative security insights
• Develop scalable security analytics, dashboards, and reporting aligned with compliance and operational requirements
• Serve as a technical bridge between security, cloud, operations, and leadership teams
• Enable continuous improvement of vulnerability posture, asset coverage, and compliance metrics through automation and engineering rigor
• Support audit‑ready security reporting aligned with federal standards and mandates

Required Qualifications & Capabilities

Core Qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical findings into actionable insights
• Strong collaboration and problem‑solving abilities in cross‑functional environments
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• 5+ years of information security experience, including 3+ years focused on cloud security

Security Architecture & Visibility

• Proven ability to design and maintain cross‑platform security visibility models spanning vulnerability management, endpoint security, logging and analytics platforms and cloud and on‑premise environments
• Deep understanding of authoritative asset inventories, agent coverage validation, and vulnerability posture tracking in large enterprise or federal environments
• Experience correlating security telemetry across diverse tools to produce reliable operational and executive‑level insights

Vulnerability Management & Tenable Engineering

• Advanced, hands‑on expertise with Tenable Security Center and Nessus, including:
• Ability to create custom vulnerability analytics beyond native tool interfaces
• Experience normalizing vulnerability data by plugin Id, asset characteristics, operating system, vulnerability age
• Strong capabilities in large‑scale filtering, including CIDR ranges, IP segmentation, and dynamic exclusions

Splunk Engineering & Security Analytics

• Advanced Splunk engineering skills, including complex SPL development
• Experience building and maintaining production‑grade XML dashboards for both operations and executive stakeholders
• Proficiency in Lookup‑based normalization and asset resolution and enrichment workflows
• Ability to develop snapshots, trending views, and compliance metrics with high data accuracy and integrity
• Strong proficiency in Python for security automation, analytics and reporting, and custom operational tooling
• Experience developing tools that integrate with security platform APIs to normalize and enrich data, correlate assets across systems, and validate agent health and coverage

Cloud Security & Compliance

• Strong working knowledge of AWS and Azure security including: logging and telemetry, resource tagging strategies, and fleeting asset tracking
• Experience aligning security reporting with FedRAMP and OMB M‑21‑31 requirements
• Ability to translate compliance mandates into measurable, technical security controls

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in regulated federal environments with complex governance and compliance requirements
• AWS Certified Security – Specialty (or equivalent cloud security certification)