Lead Cybersecurity Engineer - Innovation & Automation
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At Credence, we support our clientsā mission-critical needs, powered by technology. We provide cutting-edge solutions, including AI/ML, enterprise modernization, and advanced intelligence capabilities, to the largest defense and health federal organizations. Through partnership and trust, we increase mission success for war-fighters and secure our nation for a better future.
We are privately held, are repeatedly recognized as a top place to work, and have been on the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies list for the last 12 years. We practice servant leadership and believe that by focusing on the success of our clients, team members, and partners, we all achieve greater success.
Credence has an immediate need for a Lead Cybersecurity Engineer - Innovation & Automation to serve as the technical lead for cybersecurity engineering, cybersecurity tools, and emerging technologies. This position is responsible for advancing the organization's technical cybersecurity capabilities and supporting the implementation of innovative technologies that strengthen the overall security posture.
The Lead Cybersecurity Engineer - Innovation & Automation will identify opportunities to improve cybersecurity operations through the adoption of new technologies, automation, engineering solutions, and process improvements, and present recommendations to Government leadership.
The Lead Cybersecurity Engineer - Innovation & Automation will work closely with this position to support cybersecurity tool implementation, automation, engineering integration, technical research, and the development of engineering recommendations.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to...
- Serve as the technical lead for cybersecurity tools, engineering initiatives, and emerging technologies
- Evaluate, recommend, implement, and integrate cybersecurity tools to improve operational effectiveness
- Research emerging cybersecurity threats, attack techniques, vulnerabilities, and defensive technologies
- Conduct technical threat assessments, vulnerability analyses, and cybersecurity risk assessments
- Produce technical white papers, engineering analyses, risk assessments, and recommendations that support informed cybersecurity decision-making
- Develop engineering recommendations that improve the organization's overall security posture
- Mentor and train Cybersecurity Engineers and other technical staff on cybersecurity tools, engineering methodologies, and emerging technologies
- Support Operational Technology (OT) cybersecurity initiatives and collaborate with the Operational Technology Security Engineer on FSEI and other OT-related efforts
- Establish engineering standards and technical best practices for cybersecurity tool implementation and integration
- Promote continuous improvement of the team's technical cybersecurity maturity through research, innovation, and knowledge sharing
- Identify opportunities to automate cybersecurity processes and improve operational efficiency through engineering solutions
- Develop and maintain enterprise cybersecurity reporting solutions, including Power BI dashboards, Splunk dashboards, Microsoft Sentinel workbooks, cybersecurity metrics, and executive reporting capabilities
Requirements
- DOD Secret Clearance
- Bachelorās Degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field
- DOD 8570.01 Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level III Certification
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View Company ProfileCredence is a premier, enterprise-grade national security AI services company, defense technology contractor, and intelligence infrastructure architect engineered to operate as the definitive procedural and operational layer for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), intelligence communities, and federal civilian agencies. The firm completely eliminates the severe systemic friction of modern military and government operationsāwhere commanders and defense analysts face fragmented multi-INT data networks, manual multilingual translation bottlenecks, crushing contract compliance backlogs, and severe deployment delays in air-gapped environmentsāby deploying an open, high-concurrency Agentic AI platform. Moving far beyond traditional, slow-moving consulting frameworks or rigid, closed-source software platforms, Credence natively unifies automated target recognition pipelines, predictive fleet and asset readiness telemetry, high-velocity natural language multi-INT translation systems operating at over 50,000 words per minute, and secure multi-agent autonomous collaboration stacks. Deployed today across classification tiers from Impact Level 2 through Impact Level 6 (IL-2 to IL-6) with full Authority to Operate (ATO), the company equips over 1 million scaled users to process millions of transactions, automatically flag procurement fraud, and secure cross-domain Zero Trust data exchanges with production-hardened 99.99% uptime. Under the hood, its sophisticated technical coreābuilt upon an AI Software Factory modelānatively orchestrates vendor-agnostic large language model interoperability, plug-and-play Model Context Protocol (MCP) tooling arrays, and air-gapped data sovereign layers that guarantee clients maintain absolute ownership of their code, models, and data. What sets Credence apart is its uncompromising dedication to replacing bureaucratic stagnation with absolute mission velocity; by bridging the gap between performance-intensive commercial technology and strict federal security guidelines, the veteran-heavy institution drives over $150 million in annual government cost savings and accelerates tactical national security workflows worldwide.
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