Cyber Security Consultant III

Edgesource Corporation

Cyber Security Consultant designing and implementing secure application architectures and conducting vulnerability assessments for DOD clients. Mentoring teams and ensuring security compliance across various platforms.

Posted 4/14/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudGrafanaPrometheusRPASplunkVault

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provides expertise in secure coding, threat modeling, and vulnerability management.
Capable of mentoring teams and promoting a culture of security across the organization.
Responsible for ensuring security, integrity, and compliance in customer systems, applications, and services.
Leads efforts to design, implement, and maintain secure application architectures.
Conducts vulnerability assessments.
Drives security best practices across the agency.
Translates complex AppSec findings into decision-grade briefs.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Ability to obtain a Public Trust Clearance
Provides expertise in secure coding, threat modeling, and vulnerability management.
Capable of mentoring teams and promoting a culture of security across the organization.
Responsible for ensuring security, integrity, and compliance in customer systems, applications, and services.
Leads efforts to design, implement, and maintain secure application architectures.
Conducts vulnerability assessments.
Drives security best practices across the agency.
Minimum experience: 8+ years in application security, software development, or related roles.
Experience with RPA and automation tools.
Experience with integration of security into CI/CD pipelines.
Proven success operating in high-oversight governance environments, partnering directly with department heads and lead SMEs to drive decisions, standards adoption, and measurable risk reduction.
Executive briefing mastery: can translate complex AppSec findings into crisp, decision-grade briefs (risk, impact, options, recommendation), and handle senior-leader Q&A without losing the room.
Exceptional people skills: known for building trust quickly, de-escalating conflict, influencing without authority, and aligning security, engineering, and product stakeholders to ship securely.
Demonstrated ability to implement DHS standard security controls/gates in CI/CD, including automated security testing and continuous scanning.
Working knowledge of federal security expectations and language (e.g., Zero Trust principles and relevant NIST/FISMA-aligned compliance environments) to communicate credibly in governance forums.
Evidence they stay current on the latest AppSec advances (recent training/certs, conference/community participation, publications/talks, or demonstrable adoption of modern techniques/tools) and can brief teams on what matters and why.
Strong written communication - produces leadership-ready artifacts (security posture summaries, threat model/readout briefs, vulnerability trends, remediation plans, decision memos).
Familiarity with container and workload security/compliance tooling such as Twistlock.
Familiarity with secrets management and key handling solutions such as HashiCorp Vault / Vault and AWS Key Management Service (KMS).
Familiarity with software supply chain / component risk tooling such as NexusIQ.
Familiarity with code quality/security tooling such as SonarQube (and using results to drive remediation and policy gates).
Familiarity with enterprise authentication and trust controls including Kerberos and PKI concepts/implementations.
Familiarity with security monitoring/log analysis workflows using Splunk.
Familiarity with cloud/platform monitoring signals used for security operations and risk narratives (e.g., AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana).
Ability to operate within a tool-governed environment where the Approved Software List is subject to change, and where alternative tools require USG vetting/approval before use.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible PTO Policy + 11 Paid Holidays
Flexible Work Schedules (Remote / Hybrid)
Medical / Dental / Vision / Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
401k Plan with Match
Tuition & Professional Development Support
Commuter Benefits
Bonus & Employee Referral Programs
Career Growth Opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

secure codingthreat modelingvulnerability managementapplication securityCI/CD integrationautomated security testingcontinuous scanningrisk reductionsecurity best practicesDHS standard security controls

Soft Skills

mentoringbuilding trustde-escalating conflictinfluencing without authorityexecutive briefingstrong written communicationaligning stakeholdershandling senior-leader Q&Apromoting security culturetranslating complex findings