Senior Cybersecurity Engineer
About The Position
Join Aprio's Information Technology team as a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer and help clients maximize their opportunities. Aprio is a progressive, fast-growing firm looking for a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to join their dynamic team. Aprio’s Cybersecurity Engineering team builds and operates the controls that make the firm defensible: identity, network segmentation, cloud security baselines, endpoint, monitoring, encryption, and vulnerability management. The Senior Cybersecurity Engineer is the senior individual contributor on that team — the engineer who takes a control domain from “documented” to “running cleanly in production,” sets the standard for how it’s done, and pulls the Mid and Associate engineers up with them. This is a hands-on engineering role that also leads cross-team initiatives. This position supports U.S. Government engagements that may involve Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and requires access to export-controlled technical data. In accordance with CUI and U.S. export control regulations, this position is limited to ‘U.S. persons’ (including U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, and certain protected individuals) as defined in 22 C.F.R. § 120.62. These requirements are only tied to this specific job posting. We are an equal opportunity employer and all Aprio employment decisions are made in accordance with applicable laws.
Requirements
- 5+ years in security engineering, with hands-on responsibility for implementing controls across identity, network, cloud, endpoint, and/or monitoring.
- Strong fundamentals in IAM, network segmentation, encryption / key management, and centralized logging / monitoring.
- Experience with at least one major cloud platform (Azure, AWS, GCP) in a security-engineering capacity.
- Ability to produce clear architecture documentation, runbooks, and decision records that hold up under audit and peer review.
- Excellent written and verbal communication; able to explain tradeoffs across Security, IT, and delivery audiences in plain language.
- Comfortable mentoring less senior engineers and owning quality-of-output for one or more domains.
Nice To Haves
- Regulated-environment experience (CMMC, NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP-aligned, SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI).
- Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform, Bicep, Pulumi) and policy-as-code (Sentinel, OPA).
- Security tooling integration experience (SIEM, EDR, vulnerability scanning, IAM, secrets management).
- Industry certifications (one or more): CISSP, CCSP, GIAC (e.g., GCED, GPEN, GCWN), AZ-500, AWS Security Specialty.
- Experience supporting a SOC’s detection/response engineering needs.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or related field — or equivalent applicable years of experience
Responsibilities
- Own the operational health of one or two engineering domains (identity, network/segmentation, cloud security baselines, monitoring/logging, encryption/key management, endpoint, vulnerability management, configuration management). Keep them measurably healthy and improving.
- Lead initiatives that span Security, IT, Identity, Cloud Operations, and delivery teams — controlled rollouts, control set hardening, tool migrations. Land them without breaking production.
- Design new control patterns and reference architectures. Write the decision records, runbooks, and standards the team executes against and the auditors review.
- Lead the end-to-end deployment of new control sets (e.g., bringing a new EDR online, hardening a new cloud account, standing up new logging pipelines) — pilot, measure, expand, document.
- Pair with Mid and Associate engineers, run design reviews, give substantive code/config review, and grow the next tier. Quality of output from less senior engineers is part of your scope.
- Be the senior partner Cloud Ops, Identity, IT Service Management, GRC, and the SOC call when they need security engineering input. Solve problems with them, not at them.
- Partner with Detection Engineering and the SOC on logging coverage, telemetry quality, and the engineering pieces of response (privileged access tooling, isolation capabilities, evidence capture).
- Produce control evidence and architecture documentation that holds up under audit and peer review. Keep your domains’ evidence map current.
- Push toward repeatable, codified controls (IaC, policy-as-code, automated evidence collection) instead of one-off manual work.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance on the first day of employment
- Flexible Spending Account and Dependent Care Account
- 401k with Profit Sharing
- 9+ holidays and discretionary time off structure
- Parental Leave – coverage for both primary and secondary caregivers
- Tuition Assistance Program and CPA support program with cash incentive upon completion
- Discretionary incentive compensation based on firm, group and individual performance
- Incentive compensation related to origination of new client sales
- Top rated wellness program
- Flexible working environment including remote and hybrid options
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
