About The Position
The Digital Information Security Engineering team is seeking a transitioning military service member to participate in a SkillBridge Staff Security Engineer role focused on hands-on security engineering, automation, and platform integration. This SkillBridge opportunity is designed as an execution-driven, immersive training role, enabling the participant to apply military experience in operations, cyber defense, systems engineering, or communications to real-world enterprise security engineering challenges. The participant will gain direct, practical experience in Python-based automation, secure API development, cloud security platforms, and modern DevSecOps workflows, while being supported by senior engineers and mentors. Experience or interest in AI-enabled security tooling and agentic workloads is welcomed but not required. This role emphasizes learning through doing and prepares the service member for a full-time civilian security engineering career upon successful program completion.
Requirements
- Active-duty U.S. military service member approved for DoD SkillBridge participation.
- Background in one or more of the following (from military experience, training, or self-study): Cybersecurity operations, Information assurance, Network or systems administration, Software, scripting, or automation, Signals, communications, or IT operations.
- Familiarity with at least one programming or scripting language (Python strongly preferred but not required at entry).
- Ability to obtain and maintain required access approvals.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP – military equivalents acceptable).
- Experience with Containers or virtualization technologies.
- Experience with Security tools, SIEMs, or defensive cyber operations.
- Interest in software development, automation, and platform engineering.
- Prior leadership or technical responsibility in military roles.
- Experience or interest in AI-enabled security tooling and agentic workloads.
Responsibilities
- Learn to design, build, and maintain secure APIs that expose security platform capabilities.
- Gain hands-on experience with authentication, authorization, rate limiting, observability, and abuse protection mechanisms.
- Work alongside experienced engineers using API gateways, service meshes, and service orchestration platforms.
- Contribute to API documentation, runbooks, and operational support materials.
- Develop Python-based automation to streamline security workflows and operational tasks.
- Build integrations and scripts connecting security tools, SaaS platforms, and data sources.
- Learn how security is embedded into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions).
- Apply secure development lifecycle practices, including: Threat modeling, Secure code review, Static and dynamic analysis.
- Observe and assist in evaluating AI-powered security tools and automation frameworks.
- Optional / Nice-to-have: Participate in the design or testing of agentic workflows, such as: AI-assisted alert triage or correlation, Policy-driven automated response actions.
- Learn governance, observability, and safe operational usage of AI in security environments.
- Understand how production security services meet availability, reliability, and performance objectives.
- Participate in troubleshooting and incident response for security APIs and services.
- Learn proactive risk identification and resilience planning.
- Collaborate with product managers and software engineers to understand civilian enterprise engineering workflows.
- Translate requirements into secure technical designs under mentorship.
- Participate in peer reviews and technical discussions to build confidence in civilian engineering environments.
- Develop a platform and systems-thinking mindset.
- Learn industry-standard engineering practices and documentation norms.
- Receive informal mentorship and feedback from senior engineers.
- Gain exposure to enterprise security decision-making and trade-offs.
- Build a professional portfolio of real-world security engineering work.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
